Italy’s Rana family, of the global pasta empire, is rumored to be in hot water with locals over renovations to a historic estate on Lake Garda better suited to Las Vegas than to Como’s quainter cousinBy Elena ClavarinoItaly’s Lake Garda is only a two-hour drive from Como, and while it doesn’t attract the George Clooney set, it is arguably just as majestic. Fog clings to the surrounding mountains, dotted with small, colorful villages. In the summer months, the dark water brightens and shimmers a luminous blue. It features in Dante’sDivine Comedy,and D. H. Lawrence, who spent six months on its shores, called it “a lake as beautiful as the beginning of creation.”Nearly 500 years earlier, on a rocky outcrop between the towns of Corno and Acque Fredde, Punta San Vigilio, an estate overlookingREAD ON
