MUSEO DEL PAESAGGIO DEL LAGO DI COMO

The rooms house a collection of old prints of the lake, offering a fascinating view of the Lario, and a multimedia system with touch-screen tables that allows visitors to compare maps and historical images with the current layout of the area. The architectural complex includes the park, the villa, some outbuildings and a tower. The current complex is the result of a series of modifications and extensions to the original layout, consisting of a central building with a rectangular plan developed on three floors, onto which two wings are grafted, one with a linear development towards the north-east, also on three floors, and one composed of two orthogonal arms towards the south-west. The villa today houses the Lake Como Landscape Museum. The rooms of the museum house a collection of antique prints of Lake Como from the 16th to the 19th century, loaned by the heirs of Giorgio Bordoli Crivelli Visconti. The prints offer a fascinating glimpse of the Lario landscape through illustrations of the main towns (Como, Cernobbio, Tremezzo, Bellagio, among others) and the most famous villas (Villa Carlotta, Villa del Balbianello, Villa Olmo, Villa d′Este). The Museo del Paesaggio del Lago di Como (Lake Como Landscape Museum) has a multimedia system for presenting the cultural and environmental heritage of the Lake Como area that makes it possible to compare maps and historical images with the current layout of the territory and offers descriptions and information on the main monuments in the Tremezzina area. A special section of the multimedia system is dedicated to Cinema on the Lario and includes short films, summaries of the films shot on the lake and indications of the places that have hosted filming (from Alfred Hitchcock's The Pleasure Garden in 1925 to Star Wars Episode II and Ocean′s Twelwe).