Join us on Lake Como and experience a fascinating and fun way to wakeboard…. Lake Como and Cernobbio don’t need any presentation at all. During year 2008 lake Como and this area had a record so far of foreign tourists.
You will wakeboard – waterski and visit all the charming places and ride in the front of the old lake Villas ... Villa Pliniana, Villa d’Este, Villa Passalacqua, Villa Fontanelle.
The camp is in Moltrasio just 5 minutes from Cernobbio and we are located 55 km north of the town of Milano close to the Swiss border. The closest Airport is Milano/Malpensa, 63 km from here.
Our instructors are all F.I.S.N certified and all speak english fluently, while Nicole (the manager) speaks French and German as well. We coach seven days a week May to September.
Nicole personally selects the hotels you will stay and dine, making sure that quality would be up to their standard.
In summertime lake Como has several sagre or rustic festivals to offer where you can taste local specialities and of course great wine; obviously we are always at your disposal to suggest or organize such things in order to leave some even greater Italian memories after your departure.
What a wonderful opportunity to fully experience lake Como area, cycling in the morning….. along our wonderful and scenic mountain roads and wakeboard late in the afternoon at sunset time! ……. or maybe you prefer to relax all day long at our camp where you can find a beach and lay down on the sand or on the deckchair and waiting for best moment to wakeboard or waterski.
We also have tubes in case you want to have fun and wakesurf.
Did you know that……. Lake Como was discovered over 2000 years ago by the Romans. Julius Caesar loved it so much that he sent favored Romans and Greeks to inhabit Novum Comum.
Pliny the Elder and his Nephew Pliny the Younger were born here on the Lake and one of the nicest villas on Lake Como is named after them.
Cicero lived on Lake Como briefly and took back to Rome the ideals of Lake Como life. Over two thousand years ago Cicero embarrassed his enemy Lucius Calpurnius Piso for drinking “one glass too many of the delicious Lombardy wines” during one of his speeches at the Senate.
Mona Lisa, dressed in the Florentine fashion of her day and seated in a rugged, mountainous landscape, is an incredible example of Leonardo’s delicate touch. The Mona Lisa’s unusual expression has given the portrait universal fame. The background was inspired by the beautiful scenery that Leonardo enjoyed while on Lake Como.
In 1797, Napoleon incorporated Lake Como into the Cisalpine Republic. Napoleon loved the beauty of Lake Como and lived on the Lake when he found himself in northern Italy. He was the patron of great works of art and some of his patronage also impacted the Villa Passalacqua.
Shortly after World War II, Winston Churchill spent a long sojourn at the Villa Le Rose in 1945 in the beautiful village of Moltrasio.
Lake Como has a particular and characteristic shape of an overturned Y with three arms, one towards the North (Sondrio/Stelvio Pass or Chiavenna/Engadina) and the others towards the towns of Como and Lecco.
Its perimeter measures 170 km. Was formed during the quaternary era by a large glacier.
Lake Como is the third largest of the Italian lakes surfacewise and it’s the deepest with its 410 metres in front of the little village of Nesso.
Gastronomy: fish is the main ingredient among lake food and polenta (a sort of maize porridge) with meat dishes, polenta taragna (flavoured with cheese, garlic and butter) or pizzoccheri are very popular along our mountains and valleys. Other classical dishes are risotto with perch and smoked trout preserved in olive oil or missultin which is lake shad dried and pressed fish. Along the lake, particularly around Tremezzo, you can find olive trees from which a rare and precious oil is extracted.
