The only island on Lake Como, the Comacina island is a
place of great charm where history, nature, art and archeology are intertwined
in this small fragment of almost uninhabited land.
A lush nature and a pleasant landscape frame the remains
of its illustrious past of a fortified citadel (first Roman then Byzantine), an
important religious center of the diocese of Como, a powerful Municipality of
the Lario until the 12th century when the Comaschi, to punish loyalty of the
island to Milan, razed it to the ground (1169). Cavalier Caprani, the last
owner of the island, donated it to King Alberto I of Belgium who, moved by the
desire to make it the seat of a colony of artists, donated it to the Italian
State which entrusted it to the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera (1920). Among the
"treasures" of the islet you can see the ruins of the grandiose Romanesque
church of Sant'Eufemia.
Info:
https://www.isola-comacina.it/
