Our family:  Luciano (64), engineer; Marina (61) teacher: we are both retaired.  We are Intervac members since 1993 and we did more than 50 exchanges. We are very satisfied to be Intervac members.
We are no smokers and we love animals. We have a she-cat, but usually we leave she to our son. Be carefull if you are allergic.
Our home : is an appartement with surface of 120 m2, 2° floor in an aged building sed renewed. there is a kitchen with a gas stove, electric oven, refrigerator, freezer, many little appliances and a table for six persons; a bedroom with a double bed; a boy's bedroom with three beds; a  confortable living room, a bath room with washing machine.
In the undergound there is a cellar with three bicycles.The windows and the balcony of the house looks upon the courtyard where there is the car's place.
The house is sunny and peacefull, but close to the center of the town , to the shops and to the public transports ( train, bus, lake motorships).
Our town : Como is well placed on important national and international communication routes and the natural beauty of its lake and its monuments have alwayas attracted tourists.
Como is connected to Milan (50km) and to the rest of Italy by motorways and by railways.
Many sports can be perfomed: sailing, wind-surfing, water-skiing, boating, golf , riding, delta-flying, alpinism and trekking on in the mountains around Como and, with motorships, visit the nice little villages on the lake coast.
Como is also a very important center for silk fashion products and a good starting point for visiting the Italian "lake distric" ( lake Maggiore, Garda, Iseo, Como), the cities of the north of Italy (Torino, Milan, Brescia, Verona, Venezia) and Switzerland with its high mountains.
If you want you may found more touristic infos on www.larioonline.it and www.lakecomo.com .