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Lake Como Villas
Lake Como has always been a popular retreat for aristocrats and wealthy people ever since the Roman times, and a very popular tourist attraction, which boasts many artistic and cultural gems. It is famous for its numerous villas and palaces (such as Villa Olmo, Villa Serbelloni and Villa Carlotta). Currently, many celebrities have or had homes on the shores of Lake Como, such as George Clooney. Lake Como is widely regarded as being one of the most beautiful lakes in the world.

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Villa Monastero is today, on the shores of Lake Como, one of the most interesting examples of eclectic style residence in which the interventions of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century have added functional and decorative elements without destroying the traces of events of the past in order to get a villa with garden of great impact and symbolic value. Villa Monastero was inspired by the continuing restructuring of the female Cistercian monastery of Santa Maria, whose first documentary mention goes back to some 1208. E ‘probable that his foundation is connected with the religious settlements of the opposite shore of the lake: the monastery of SS. Faustino and Giovita Comacina Island, from which the refugees of 1169… photo by:shamptonian

Villa Monastero is today, on the shores of Lake Como, one of the most interesting examples of eclectic style residence in which the interventions of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century have added functional and decorative elements without destroying the traces of events of the past in order to get a villa with garden of great impact and symbolic value. Villa Monastero was inspired by the continuing restructuring of the female Cistercian monastery of Santa Maria, whose first documentary mention goes back to some 1208. E ‘probable that his foundation is connected with the religious settlements of the opposite shore of the lake: the monastery of SS. Faustino and Giovita Comacina Island, from which the refugees of 1169…

photo by:shamptonian

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Villa Serbelloni has a very ancient story, property of the Sfondrati family in 1533, became property of Count Alessandro Serbelloni who gave to the estate his body and his soul. The external aspect, ample but simple wasn’t modified, but the inside was carefully decorated, from the vaulted ceiling, to the paintings and other art’s objects. The Duke Serbelloni, anyway, was more into the garden than the villa, he spent incredible amounts of money, made built tracks practicable for wheeled traffic, avenues and paths, for an extension of 18 km. The Duke died in Bellagio in 1826, the villa passed to his sons, Giovanni Battista and Ferdinando, and it started to decay progressively after their death; but since 1870 their heirs leased it out to Antonio Mella  who made it a depandance of the Grande Bretagne Hotel; in 1907 they sold it to a swiss society that made it the Serbelloni Hotel. The Hotel was bought by the Princess Ella Walker and finally left as bequeath to the Rockefeller foundation in 1959. Today the villa is used as place for meetings and stay. The villa gave hospitality to several famous people, when it was propriety of Sfonderati : the Emperor Massimiliano I, Leonardo da Vinci, Lodovico il Moro, Bianca Sforza, the Cardinal Borromeo. During the XIX century: Pellico, Moroncelli, the Emperor Francesco, the Queen Victoria, the Kaiser William, Umberto I, writers as Manzoni, Grossi and Pindemonte. photo by: steinbock.bonnie

Villa Serbelloni has a very ancient story, property of the Sfondrati family in 1533, became property of Count Alessandro Serbelloni who gave to the estate his body and his soul.
The external aspect, ample but simple wasn’t modified, but the inside was carefully decorated, from the vaulted ceiling, to the paintings and other art’s objects. The Duke Serbelloni, anyway, was more into the garden than the villa, he spent incredible amounts of money, made built tracks practicable for wheeled traffic, avenues and paths, for an extension of 18 km.
The Duke died in Bellagio in 1826, the villa passed to his sons, Giovanni Battista and Ferdinando, and it started to decay progressively after their death; but since 1870 their heirs leased it out to Antonio Mella  who made it a depandance of the Grande Bretagne Hotel; in 1907 they sold it to a swiss society that made it the Serbelloni Hotel. The Hotel was bought by the Princess Ella Walker and finally left as bequeath to the Rockefeller foundation in 1959. Today the villa is used as place for meetings and stay.
The villa gave hospitality to several famous people, when it was propriety of Sfonderati : the Emperor Massimiliano I, Leonardo da Vinci, Lodovico il Moro, Bianca Sforza, the Cardinal Borromeo. During the XIX century: Pellico, Moroncelli, the Emperor Francesco, the Queen Victoria, the Kaiser William, Umberto I, writers as Manzoni, Grossi and Pindemonte.

photo by: steinbock.bonnie

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