Villa Carlotta Museo e Giardino Botanico

Villa Carlotta is a place of rare beauty, where the masterpieces of nature and human ingenuity coexist in perfect harmony on more than 70,000 m2 between historic gardens and museum spaces.

In a natural basin between lake and mountains, at the end of the 17th century the Marquis Giorgio Clerici he had an elegant and solemn mansion built, surrounded by an Italian-style garden and overlooking a breathtaking backdrop embracing the Grigne e Bellagio.

With the transfer of ownership to Gian Battista Sommariva, At the beginning of the 19th century, the villa reached the peak of its splendour: enriched with important art collections, it became an essential stop on Lake Como. It was Sommariva who wanted to transform part of the garden into an extraordinary romantic park and to embellish the villa with masterpieces by Canova, Thorvaldsen and Hayez.

The Villa Carlotta park is famous for the spectacular spring flowering of rhododendrons and azaleaswith over 150 varieties, but each season offers different suggestions: ancient camellias, century-old cedars and redwoods, monumental plane trees and exotic essences accompany the visitor through a succession of environments modelled over the centuries by landscape architects.

📅 Discover the events calendar  and scheduled activities on the official website.