Lenno

The ordinary boat, the battello, is the one that calls at Lenno. It stops everywhere, it runs through the day, and it is the service the village timetable is built around. The fast service, the servizio rapido, is not a different ticket but the same fare plus a fixed speed supplement for your stretch, and that supplement carries no reduction of any kind, not for children, not for seniors, not for groups. The car ferry, the traghetto, does not come here and cannot: within the whole of Tremezzina only Cadenabbia is a car-ferry pier, and the car ferry route is Bellagio, Cadenabbia, Varenna and Menaggio, full stop.

Fares are not a route price list. Every pair of piers is assigned a stretch, numbered 1 to 8, and the stretch is looked up in the table. Como to Lenno is stretch 5.

Fares and stretches come from Navigazione Lago di Como's own rate pages, in force from 1 April 2026.

• Return tickets are simply double the one-way price, so there is no saving in buying one
• A ticket bought on board when the pier ticket office was open costs €1 more per passenger, per item of luggage and per vehicle
• Small dogs under 50 cm at the shoulder travel free; larger ones pay the reduced fare and are barred from the hydrofoils and catamarans altogether

The timetable turns over twice a year, and Lenno's calls move with it

The summer sheet ran from 1 July to 4 October 2026 and the autumn sheet from 5 October to 1 November 2026. Lenno is on the Como to Colico route in both, served by the ordinary boat and by the fast service, which puts it in a small group of western-shore villages that get both. What the operator does not publish is a per-pier list saying which of the day's calls is a fast run: that is only visible by reading the run numbers off the grid. Print the pier and the fare from the operator, and count the departures off the current PDF on the day you travel, because the sheet you are reading may already have expired.

One stop along the same shore is worth knowing about: Isola Comacina had three calls out and three back on the autumn sheet, and Campo had two. Lenno is the reliable one.

The stops either side of Lenno

Going south, Sala Comacina and Isola Comacina share stretch 5 with Lenno, so the fare from Como is identical. Going north, Tremezzo, Villa Carlotta and Cadenabbia are stretch 6, which is €12.00, about $13.98, from Como. The Villa Carlotta landing stage carried no scheduled calls at all on the autumn 2026 sheet, which makes it a seasonal stop rather than a daily one, and the operator's own timetable note tells foot passengers that Cadenabbia pier is 900 metres along the lakefront from the villa entrance while Tremezzo pier is 450 metres under the porticoes.

If Villa Carlotta is your target, Tremezzo is the pier.

The bus is ASF Autolinee's line C110, Como to Argegno to Menaggio to Colico, the trunk service along the western shore, and it calls at Lenno on the way. Note the number: ASF renumbered its lines to three digits, so the C10 you will see quoted in older guides and on aggregator pages will not match any timetable on the operator's site. The winter weekday sheet in force runs from 14 September 2026 to 8 June 2027, and the operator publishes no headway at all, only a run-by-run grid: Como to Argegno takes 37 minutes on the first departure of the day, Como to Cadenabbia 61 minutes, Como to Menaggio 66. Count the departures off the current PDF rather than trusting an interval nobody states.

Fares on ASF are a kilometre-band system and the operator does not publish which band a named journey falls in, which is a real obstacle: the band for Como to Lenno is produced by the ticket office or the app and by nothing else. There is one published exception. ASF's Swipe on Lake contactless scheme prints flat fares against named line journeys, and the whole of C110 from Como to Menaggio is €4.90, about $5.71, tapped on the green validator on board with no on-board surcharge. Tap and a red light means you are travelling without a ticket, and no paper receipt is issued at all.

Parking: what the comune states, and what it refuses to state

The Comune di Tremezzina publishes no parking tariff. Not an hourly rate, not a daily rate, not a blue-zone price, not a park-and-ride figure, and there is no concessionaire page either; the Parcheggi topic on the comune site carries a form, a car-space regulation and news items and nothing else. What the comune does state is where to leave the car. Its own page for the house on the point names the Parcheggio Mercato in Via Comoedia, formerly Via degli Artigiani, in Lenno, as the nearest paid car park, with further parking in Via Diaz and Via Silvio Pellico, and it warns of heavy traffic and parking difficulty at weekends and in summer. A municipal news item of 8 August 2025 records a new car park in Via Volta at Lenno with 19 car spaces and three motorcycle spaces.

Nineteen spaces. That is the scale of the thing, and it is why we would take the boat and leave the car wherever we slept. If you are driving the shore anyway, the driving and parking page has the rest of the lake's rules.

Three harbours that are not the pier

The comune owns three porticcioli, small-craft harbours rather than public-transport piers: the Porticciolo Lungolago C. Lomazzi at Lenno, the Porticciolo Lungolago G. Delmati in the Villa district of Lenno, and the Porticciolo San Lorenzo at Tremezzo. If someone offers to drop you at one of these, that is a private arrangement and not a scheduled service. The Lido di Lenno, likewise, is not a Navigazione Lago di Como landing stage: it is absent from the operator's stop list and from both 2026 timetables, which is worth knowing if a booking confirmation names it as your arrival point.

The bay is the thing. The shore curves from the village round to the wooded ridge of the Dosso di Lavedo, the peninsula that closes the western side, and the promenade along it is public, level and free. The Greenway del Lago di Como runs through here as one of its seven stages, from Colonno through Sala Comacina, Ossuccio, Lenno, Mezzegra and Tremezzo to Griante: the official route is 11.2 kilometres on the technical panel and about three and a half hours end to end, with 221 metres of climbing and 257 of descent, and it costs nothing. The Greenway page has the stage detail and the works notices, which are worth checking before you commit to a stretch.

Two municipal museums sit inside the same comune, both a bus stop or two away, and both publish hours but no admission price that we could source: the Museo del Paesaggio del Lago di Como at Via Statale 4835 in Tremezzo, open Thursday to Sunday 10:00 to 12:00 and 14:00 to 18:00, and the Antiquarium Luigi Mario Belloni e Mariuccia Zecchinelli in Via Giuseppe Somalvico at Ossuccio, Thursday to Sunday 11:00 to 17:00.

The church the comune lists second

After the house on the point, the Comune di Tremezzina's own listing of Lenno's sights names the church of Santo Stefano, with its crypt and the adjoining Battistero di San Giovanni Battista beside it. No admission, no published hours and no ticket: it is a working parish church on the square behind the lakefront, and the crypt is the older half of it. We print no opening times because the comune publishes none, and neither does the parish.

The information desks, and the days they shut

Lenno has its own staffed desk, the Info Point at Via Lungolago 23, open daily from 10:00 to 13:00 and closed on Wednesday, telephone +39 366 6947129. Two more sit up the shore in Tremezzo: the Tourist Point at Via Statale Regina 3, daily 10:00 to 13:00 and 14:30 to 17:30, closed Tuesday, and the Info Point at Villa Mainona, Via Statale Regina 22, Thursday to Sunday and public holidays 10:00 to 12:00 and 14:00 to 18:00. Between them they cover every day of the week, but never the whole day: nothing here is open in the middle of a Wednesday afternoon in Lenno itself, which is the practical reason to download the boat timetable before you come.

Swimming, and what the comune does not price

There is a lido on the bay and it is one of the reasons Lenno fills in August. Neither the comune nor any official page we could reach publishes an admission price for it, an opening season or an hours line, so we print none; the swimming and beaches page sets out what is and is not published for lidos around the lake, and the short version is that the lake's bathing water is monitored by the health authorities, the ATS, and not by the regional environment agency as it is elsewhere in Italy.

From the village there are two land routes. The short one is about a kilometre and takes roughly 25 minutes, part of it uphill and part of it gravel. The long one is a 2.5 kilometre trekking route of about 45 minutes. Both are published by FAI, the Fondo per l'Ambiente Italiano, which has owned the property since 1988, and both mean the widely repeated line that the place can only be reached by boat is simply wrong. There is also a taxi boat from the Lido di Lenno, which FAI neither runs nor prices, so anyone quoting you a fixed taxi-boat fare is quoting themselves.

What the walk does not buy you is entry. Booking is compulsory, the property closes on Mondays and Wednesdays in the regular season, and the ticket you choose sets your access time rather than your tour time. All of that, with the prices and the calendar of named dates, is on the villa's own page and its ticket comparison. If you would rather arrive by water without hiring anything, the gardens trip that includes the public boat is the packaged version, and the guided visit that goes inside is the one we would pick, because the interiors are the half of the property that a garden ticket does not open.

Ossuccio, above the same shore

The other walk out of the bay climbs rather than follows the water. Above Ossuccio, inside the same comune, stands the Sacro Monte di Ossuccio, a chapel route that is part of the UNESCO listing covering the Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy, and the Antiquarium at the foot of it keeps the Thursday to Sunday hours above. Out on the water opposite, the island has its own season and its own boat calls, three out and three back on the autumn sheet: Isola Comacina covers what opens when.

The Comune di Tremezzina publishes places, events, museums, harbours and a tourist office. It publishes no restaurant list, no market day for Lenno and no food event calendar for the village, and the joint comune and tourist-association portal it points visitors at is an events portal rather than a directory. Nothing in a national guide's list crossed our desk for this village in this run. So rather than reprint an aggregator's top ten, which is what every other page on this search does, here is what is genuinely useful: the Info Point at Tremezzo is staffed six days a week in season and will tell you what is open on the evening you ask, which no static list can do, and the lakefront restaurants in the bay change hands and seasons often enough that a list written in March is wrong by October.

The one comune-published food fixture in the area is not in Lenno at all. It is the Sagra di San Giovanni on and around Isola Comacina, whose 2026 programme the comune printed in full: gastronomic evenings in the parco comunale at Ossuccio on 27 and 28 June, the night procession of the Lucie at 21:00 on the 27th and the fireworks at 22:30 that re-enact the burning of the island. Free boat transport from Campo in Lenno at 09:30 on 28 June is part of the published programme. Do not repeat the shorthand that the festival is always the Saturday nearest 24 June: in 2026 the fireworks fell on Saturday 27 June, and the comune's own programme is the only thing worth reading.

For the lake-wide picture, where to eat on Lake Como sets out which towns publish anything at all.

Lenno suits a traveller who wants the centre of the lake without paying centre-of-the-lake prices for the bed, and who is happy to plan around a boat timetable. You are on the Como to Colico line with calls through the day, you are a 25 minute walk from the most photographed house on the lake, the Greenway runs through your village, and the tax on your room is €1 to €5 rather than the €7 a five-star commands in the towns that publish a five-star line. It is a good base for three or four nights.

It does not suit two people. The first is anyone whose plan depends on a car, because the comune publishes no parking tariff, names one paid car park and warns about summer congestion in its own words: you would spend the holiday circling. The second is anyone who wants the car ferry, because it does not stop here and never will, and a car brought over from the eastern shore has to land at Cadenabbia and drive down. If you want the ferry triangle on your doorstep, Menaggio and Bellagio are the towns that have it.

If we were choosing for a first visit of three days, we would sleep in Lenno and buy the day pass for the stretch at $26.20 (€22.50), because it allows the intermediate stops that a single does not and it turns the whole centre of the lake into one afternoon's worth of hops.

The other towns on this shore are set out in the rest of this Lake Como guide, which compares them on the same four questions: which boats call, what a bed is taxed, where the car goes and who the place suits.