Think Lake Como, think luxury. That’s been the way of this chocolate box setting for generations, with its Alpine peaks, its spritz-friendly shorelines, its spiagge and villas and electrifyingly clean air, each breath a little cure in itself. ‘The Clooney effect’, sparked when George and Amal bought a villa here over 20 years ago, sent it stratospheric.
On a boat tour, we spot the hotel where Taylor Swift stayed this summer and the villa where Formula 1 driver Charles LeClerc took a pit stop. “After Clooney, the prices went whoosh!” our guide laughs, mountains reflecting in his shades..