Wikimania 2016 bids/Esino Lario/Cars

If you are traveling in particular from Italy and Europe, it can be convenient to travel also by car, rented car or rented busses. Please note that buses should not exceed 35 seats on the Varenna-Esino road whereas 50-seat buses can take the Valsassina road: please do come with a maximum 35 seats bus.

It is possible to rent cars from Milan and from the airports. Among the main car rental companies AVIS, Europecar, Hertz.

From	Directions	Km	Miles	Time
Milano	SS36 + Provincial road 62 + Provincial road 65 (Strada della Valsassina)	99	61	1h39
Lecco	SS36 + Provincial road 62 + Provincial road 65 (Strada della Valsassina)	43.2	26	51 minutes
Varenna	Via per Esino	12,4	7	26 minutes
Lugano	By car+boat. Gandria-SS340-Porlezza-Menaggio (29km, 44 minutes) + boat Menaggio-Varenna (8.60€-14.40€ for car and driver only according to the car size, 15 minutes; buses too can cross the lake by ferry-boat) + Varenna-Esino Lario (12,4km, 26 minutes). By car. Gandria-SS340-Porlezza-Menaggio-Colico-Varenna-Esino Lario (93,4km, 2h).			By car+boat: 1h10 + boat ride By car 2h

Gasoline price

Gas prices in Italy are quite high compared to other European countries.

If you want to look for better prices, try to use the following websites:

• prezzibenzina.it, especially if you would like share your information with other partecipants;
• pompe bianche.it, a site listing all the brand-free gas stations;

There is also an app for Android:

• Prezzi Benzina

Car sharing and car pooling services

• blablacar.it
• avacar.it
• carpooling.it
• youtrip.it
• waze