Considered as one of the most fascinating landscapes of Italy, many directors from Woody Allen to Alfred Hitchcock up to Sergio Leone and Steven Soderbergh, have set some of their movies between the villas, the parks and the views of Lake Como.
On Lake Como, where water always carries goods and people in a border area, delevops an interesting marine industry, which has become the synthesis of the skills of an entire area, from carpenters (the old "maestri d’ascia ") to super skilled workers specialized in metal, plastics, electronics and mechanics, and textile. Lake Como is home of major sailing clubs and research centers of design, materials and technology, it hosts competitions of national and international boat championships. Navigation on Lake Como has ancient origins , the first documentation of shipbuilding dates back to the XVI-XVII century. Through centuries, tradition never prevented constant technological upgrading; indeed, in the trade practice was usual to design and build each boat as a unique and new, never the same as above, in the same time preserving the memory of ancient traditional methods, perhaps crossing them with other elements.
