Porlezza
Comune in Lombardy, Italy
Porlezza is a comune (municipality) on Lake Lugano in the Province of Como in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 60 kilometres (37 mi) north of Milan and about 25 kilometres (16 mi) north of Como.
Porlezza borders the following municipalities: Bene Lario, Carlazzo, Claino con Osteno, Corrido, Lenno, Ossuccio, Ponna, Val Rezzo, Valsolda.
Between 1873 and 1939, Porlezza was linked to Menaggio, on Lake Como, by the Menaggio-Porlezza railway, a steam hauled narrow gauge line built as part of a multi-modal transport link between Menaggio and Luino, on Lake Maggiore.
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- Lake of Lugano from Porlezza.jpg by Triante2009, Public domain
- SVittorePorlezza.JPG by No machine-readable author provided. LadySuzanne assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain
- Porlezzza - Lago di Lugano.jpg by Mario Falcetti, CC BY 4.0
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