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The Villa d'Este, originally Villa del Garovo, is a Renaissance patrician residence in Cernobbio on the shores of Lake Como in northern Italy, close to the city of Como.Both the villa and the 25-acre (100,000 m 2) park which surrounds it have undergone significant changes since their sixteenth-century origins as a summer residence for Cardinal Tolomeo Gallio, who had been born in the village.
Villa Erba is a 19th-century villa in Cernobbio, on the western shore of Lake Como in northern Italy. [1] Its location is not far from the Villa d'Este luxury hotel in Cernobbio. The villa was built by Luigi Erba, brother of the prominent Italian businessman Carlo Erba [it] (founder of the Erba pharmaceutical company), to express his grandiosity.
Villa Carlotta is a villa and botanical garden in Tremezzo on Lake Como in Northern Italy. Today the villa is a museum, whose collection includes works by sculptors such as Antonio Canova, Bertel Thorvaldsen, and Giovanni Migliara; painters such as Francesco Hayez; and furniture pieces of previous owners. The villa, whose architect is unknown ...
Saint day. July 25. Website. www.comune.bellagio.co.it. Bellagio (Italian: [belˈlaːdʒo]; Comasco: Belàs [beˈlaːs]) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Como in the Italian region of Lombardy. It is located on Lake Como, also known by its Latin-derived name Lario, whose arms form an inverted Y.
Villa Fontanelle in 2007. Villa Fontanelle is a villa (sometimes called a palazzo) near Moltrasio on Lake Como in Lombardy, Italy, about 50 kilometres (31 mi) from Milan.The four-storey yellow-painted building was built in the first half of the nineteenth century by the eccentric Lord Charles Currie, a visiting Englishman who fell in love with Lake Como.
Architect (s) Simone Cantoni. Villa Olmo is a neoclassical villa located in the city of Como, northern Italy. The villa was commissioned by Marquis Innocenzo Odescalchi to Swiss architect Simone Cantoni to have a summer retreat alongside the lake. Works started in 1797 and were completed in 1812. The villa was named after an elm tree, no longer ...
Now there's a new item they can take home that is turning heads and raising eyebrows: sealed cans of “Lake Como air.”. The cans, sold by the communications company ItalyComunica, are priced at ...
Villa Monastero is located in Varenna, Province of Lecco, on the shore of Lake Como.It includes a botanical garden, a museum, and a convention center, contains precious architecture, period furniture, works of art and a beautiful park that extends to Fiumelatte (river) with paths overlooking the lake, tall cypresses and many species of exotic plants.