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Villa Margherita Ricordi on the lake of Como
Villa Margherita was built in 1853, commissioned by the publisher Giulio Ricordi, in Cadenabbia on Lake Como. The word “Margherita” stands on the pediment with the clock with two sculptures, probably depictions of music and poetry. Giuseppe Verdi was often a guest of his friend and here he composed part of the arias of La…
Silk Museum in Como
The Educational Museum of the Silk of Como originated on the initiative of the ’27 Class in 1985 with the collaboration of the Ex-Allievi del Setificio. The two Como associations were directly involved in recovering the finds from the various textile factories in the city. Since 1960 the textile industry has undergone profound and irreversible…
Villa Saporiti “la Rotonda” on Lake Como
Villa Saporiti is located in Como directly overlooking the lake of the same name. One of the most important neoclassical villas in the history of the Borgo Vico, was built on a project by Leopoldo Pollack between 1783 and 1793. Even the designer Luigi Cagnola participated in subsequent interventions that included the staircase of honor…
Villa la Collina in Griande on Lake Como
Villa La Collina is located in Griande on Lake Como on a dominating hill overlooking the lake with the splendid backdrop of the Grigne and the Bellagio promontory. The First Chancellor of the German Republic Konrad Adenauer chose her as a summer residence and stayed there for ten years until her death. Many were the…
Velarca, the boat-house at Ossuccio
The Velarca is a floating house anchored for fifty years on the western shore of Lake Como. In Ossuccio in the historic town of Spurano the BBPR Studio designed its lines between 1959 and 1961. The boat is characterized by great attention to detail and choice of construction materials. This lariana gondola is located just…
Villa Taverna and its greenhouse in Perlasca
Villa Taverna is located on Lake Como in the village of Perlasca, between Blevio and Como. The villa was built at the behest of Count Paolo Taverna at the end of the eighteenth century, as a summer residence. The Taverna was then rented to Francesco Melzi d’eril who lived there during the construction of the…
Villa ai Cedri on the lake of Como
Villa ai Cedri is located in Carate Urio and overlooks Lake Como. Born on an ancient 18th century residence, it was almost entirely modified at the beginning of the 19th century by the Counts Sormani who wanted to give the villa a strong link with the surrounding nature. In the 20th century the villa was…
Ornithological and Natural Sciences Museum
The Museum of Ornithology and Natural Sciences Luigi Scanagatta is located in Varenna, in the province of Lecco. The museum preserves numerous specimens of the sedentary and migratory fauna of the Lario territory and was established in collaboration with the scholar Luigi Scanagatta. Scanagatta has always been a great lover of ornithology, branch of zoology…
Basilica of San Carpoforo in Como
The Basilica of San Carpoforo is considered the first basilica of the diocese of the city of Como. Built at the end of the fourth century by the will of the first bishop of Como San Felice, sent to Como in 1386 by the bishop of Milan Ambrogio. Standing in the area of the martyrdom…
Villa Leoni in Ossuccio on the lake of Como
Villa Leoni is located in Ossuccio on Lake Como. The villa was commissioned by Raffaele Leoni and Diana Peduzzi for the Leoni Malacrida family, industrialists in the confectionery sector. The project entrusted to Lingeri, on the western shore of the lake, upstream of the Regina road, in a splendid offshore position, the villa dominates the…
Villa Giulia in Bellagio on Lake Como
Villa Giulia is located in Bellagio on the splendid setting of Lake Como. The sober and balanced structure in neoclassical style is raised position compared to the peninsula. The villa overlooks both branches of the lake with a double perspective effect made possible by impressive works. Count Paolo Venini dedicated the villa to his wife…
Villa Fontanelle in Moltrasio on Lake Como
Villa Fontanelle rises on Lake Como in Moltrasio. The building was built in the first half of the nineteenth century by an eccentric, Lord Charles Currie, a visiting Englishman who fell in love with Lake Como. I can not find a villa that satisfies buying land on the shore of Moltrasio and building a neoclassical…
Villa Dell’Orto in Laglio on Lake Como
Villa Dell’Orto is located in Laglio on Lake Como. Recognizable by its imposing emerald green façade, it was built at the end of the 19th century. The name derives from the owners who are still known today for the Orto family business, based in Cabiate, which produces carburetors and electronic injection systems. On the Romantic…
Villa Darsena in Blevio on Lake Como
Villa Darsena is located in Blevio on Lake Como. The small town, located on the eastern shore of the lake, is the set of seven inhabitants of ancient origin that were called “the seven cities”. The first written testimony concerning Blevio dates back to 1084, the year in which the bishop of Como, Reginaldo, died…
Villa Cornaggia on Lake Como
Villa Cornaggia is located in Como at the end of Viale Geno in one of the most refined corners of the lake. The villa enjoys an excellent view on the left of the city in front of the buildings of Borgovico area, the Grumello, Cernobbio and on the Torno. Characterized by comfortable paths climbing on…
Villa Centenari in Como
Villa Centenari was built on a promontory overlooking the city of Como and the first basin of the Lario. The villa was built at the beginning of the ‘900 and recovered from abandonment about twenty years ago. Today it is one of the most prestigious villas in the Como cityscape. It is accessed through a…
Villa Cademartori sorge a Blevio sul Lago di Como
Villa Cademartori is located in Blevio directly on the lake in a basin that takes the name of Girola, an area that is the result of an ancient landslide occurred around 1400. The villa consists of three floors with a turret on the right, the main floor is punctuated by a series of tympanum windows…
Villa Allamel in Cernobbio on Lake Como
Villa Allamel in Cernobbio in the Province of Como is located near Piazza Castello and the Church of San Vincenzo. Originally took the no of Villa del Colle, then move on to Villa Lejnati and later Villa Allamel. The complex wanted by the Milanese baron Stefano de Colli was built in 1846 with a small…
The Italian Lario Motonautica Association
The Seat of the Italian Lario Motonautica Association is located in Tremezzo on Lake Como and is one of the most famous works of Lingeri. The association, which since the 1920s promoted the sporting event on the lake, needed a stable location, on the western bank of the Bolvedro torrent the headquarters were built by…
Paolo Giovio Archaeological Museum of Como
The Paolo Giovio Archaeological Museum is located in piazza delle medaglie d’oro 1 in Como. Inaugurated in 1897, it is also known as Palazzo Lucini, named after the Como family of the same name. The Archaeological Museum includes the section of collecting, the prehistoric and protohistoric section, the Roman section, the medieval section and a…
The fountain of Camerlata in Como
The fountain of Camerlata is a monumental fountain in Como in Piazzale Camerlata from which it takes its name, by Cesare Cattaneo and Mario Radice. “The work of pure decoration, exaltation of beautiful shapes obtained with geometric perfection … without claims of literally symbolic content or functional destination”. The rationalist architect Cesare Cattaneo and the…