Como

Lakeside city at the southern tip of Lake Como, Lombardy, Italy. See Italy (Literary).

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Source	Author	Role	In one line
Neither Here Nor There	Bill Bryson	setting	A clean, perfect little lake city that restores Bryson’s love of Italy.

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Neither Here Nor There — Bill Bryson (1991)

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Como was a lovely little city, clean and perfect, in a cupped hand of Alpine mountains at the southern end of the narrow, thirty-mile-long lake of the same name.

• Role: setting
• In the book: Chapter 16, after Milan. Bryson takes a room at the Hotel Plinius, has two coffees on the Piazza Roma overlooking the lake and walks the poplar-lined promenade. He compares the Basilica of San Fidele, begun in 914, with the larger domed cathedral, “more splendid than any provincial church I had seen since Aachen”, and spends an hour inside.
• Why it matters: A restful interlude between Milan, which he found charmless, and the Swiss chapter. It is his last warm Italian scene before he crosses into Switzerland.