Bellagio - Villa Melzi
The villa is right on the shore of the lake. Designed by the architect Giocondo Albertolli, it was built between 1808 and 1813 for Francesco Melzi d'Eril, Vice President of the Cisalpine Republic, th...
Read moreBellagio - Villa Serbelloni
Villa Serbelloni has an ancient history. Its grounds extend along the Bellagio headland, where Pliny the Younger is said to have owned a villa called Tragoedia. The original plan of the villa dates ba...
Read moreBellagio - Villa Trotti-Bentivoglio
The house already existed in the 1600s. In 1752 the Marquis Ludovico Trotti transformed it into a sumptuous villa surrounded by a magnificent Italian garden. The following century a descendent of the ...
Read moreBrunate - Chalet Sonzogno
This building was originally exhibited at the Turin Exposition in 1902. A couple of years later it was re-built in Brunate and offered as the prize for a lottery run by the 'Il Secolo' newspaper. Bu...
Read moreBrunate - Grand Hotel Milano
built around 1910 by Achille Manfredini to accommodate the élite tourists visiting the area. The building, in sumptuous style with large rooms overlooking the panorama, was the cradle of Como's high...
Read moreBrunate - Villa Pirotta
The villa was designed in 1902 by the architect Federico Frigerio from Como, commissioned by a business magnate who wanted to create a miniature version of Versailles in the village. Numerous sculptor...
Read moreCazzanore - Villa Morselli
Due to its isolated position, just outside the hamlet of Cazzanore, this villa has always been known as "La Solitaria" (The Solitary). It was the home of the Italian dramatist Ercole Luigi Morselli ...
Read moreCernobbio - Villa Erba
The villa, built in the opulent Mannerist style, is a large complex that includes the main house, built on a square plan, servants' quarters, guest apartments, greenhouses, a wet dock and stables. Lu...
Read moreComo - Villa Olmo
This is the most famous and sumptuous of Como's historical residences: it was built between the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century by the architect Simone Cantoni. Passed from one ...
Read moreGrandola e Uniti - Villa Bagatti Valsecchi
Villa Bagatti Valsecchi is located in Cardano, the lowest-lying hamlet in the municipality of Grandola ed Uniti. Although the village has retained its rural character, the many villas and opulent resi...
Read moreLenno - Villa Balbianello
This is without doubt one of the most scenic places on Lake Como, on the tip of the Dosso di Lavedo promontory. The late-Baroque villa was built for Cardinal Durini in the 18th century. The interior i...
Read moreProsto di Piuro - Palazzo Vertemate Franchi (Vertemate Franchi Palace)
A splendid monument to the Renaissance. Situated in Piuro, just a couple of kilometres outside Chiavenna, the mansion is a splendid monument to the Renaissance, located in a genuinely natural and ench...
Read moreRoveredo - Casa Tenchio (Tenchio House)
This early Baroque (mid-17th century) horseshoe-shaped building, built in the style of the Italian mansions at the time, is on the road in the old centre of Piazza. The facade overlooks the courtyard ...
Read moreRoveredo - Casa Zuccalli e Mazio (Zuccalli e Mazio House)
It comprises two of the most interesting dwellings: Casa Zuccalli (owned by the well-known family of builders in Austria and Bavaria) with a round arch portal with faceted ashlar and graffiti depictin...
Read moreRoveredo - Palazzo Comacio (Comacio palace)
This impressive square building, arranged on three almost identical levels, was erected in around 1670 by Tommaso Comacio: it is possibly the only example of a civil engineering project designed and b...
Read moreRoveredo - Palazzo Trivulzio (Trivulzio Palace)
The first records date back to the early 14th century. It was originally owned by the Sacco family and then acquired by the Trivulzio family in 1480. All that remains of the fortified building on the ...
Read moreSan Bernardino - Hotel Ravizza/National
The cube-shaped Neoclassical building with a hip roof was erected around the middle of the century; a plaque commemorates the fact that Cavour stayed here in 1858.
Read moreSan Vittore - Palazzo Viscardi (Viscardi Palace)
The building was erected next to the collegiate church in 1548 and altered between 1680 and 1700 by Giovanni Antonio Viscardi, architect at the court of the Bavarian electoral prince. Of noble proport...
Read moreSoazza - Casa Bianchini (Bianchini house)
Built partly of wood and partly of stone, this edifice has a wall painting in a stucco frame depicting San Floriano (1757) the, patron saint of chimney sweeps. Many of those who emigrated from Soazza ...
Read moreVarenna - Villa Monastero
The old convent and patrician residence is now an internationally acclaimed Congress Centre. The gardens are full of exotic plants with statues, temples and balustrades. The villa, as its name indicat...
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