A pleasant town on the right bank of Lake Como, Torno retains the characteristics of a medieval village, with some significant architectural survivals.
In the lower part of the town, overlooking the pretty little port, is the Parish Church of Santa Tecla, with Renaissance features and an important 1500s fresco inside, the so-called Man of Sorrows, and a coeval carved wooden Lament; in the upper part, on the other hand, is the 14th-century Church of San Giovanni, with a fine Romanesque bell tower and a Renaissance marble portal with statues and reliefs. Along the shore of the lake, in a separate position from the built-up area and surrounded by dense vegetation, stands the 16th-century Villa Pliniana, a building anchored to the rock, historically a place of visitation for a unique waterfall greeted by an opening in the villa, which, due to a characteristic geological phenomenon, is intermittently
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