I look into the blue lakes...! (2)
I look into the blue lakes... ! (2)
The start was here:
http://blogs. turpravda. en/hessen/99977.html#
Plan for Lake Como:
Nesso - Bellagio - Bellano - Varenna - Lecco - Bellagio.
The road is winding, but picturesque, in some places very beautiful: a rock, a road, a lake, sharp turns and at the same time there is no way to stop to take a photo. Before reaching Nesso, we stopped a couple of times. The rain had already stopped by this time, it was getting dark.
Nesso is not a big village, it has about one and a half thousand inhabitants, through which we pass on the way to Bellagio. I was interested in the sign of Orrido di Nesso, having looked on the Internet, and having learned that this is a waterfall, they planned to make a small stop there.
As soon as we cross the bridge, you can immediately park on the right, this is a few meters from the waterfall, which is already visible from this bridge.
This gorge was formed as a result of the confluence of the two rivers Tuf and Nos? , which merge together and break on the rocks, form a rather strong waterfall.
The difference between the highest point where it starts and the point where it flows into the lake is about 200 meters in height. We watched the streams of water from three different sides: from the bridge, you can go from it to the right, past abandoned houses and cottages, a little creepy, but the views are better, or go left, up the stairs. Only my husband went there. There are residential buildings everywhere, you can’t get close, everything is fenced, but we managed to take a few photos.
And on to Bellagio. First acquaintance: the embankment is not big at all, piers, hotels, cafes, restaurants, shops. No problem parked near the pier in front of the restaurant. A restaurant from some hotel, the receipt was not preserved, so of course I don’t remember the name. We ordered three different types of ice cream and one tiramisu cake. One thing is for my husband, he loves everything sweet, my son and I eat very selectively.
And tiramisu is cooked differently in all places, so we always order only one at first, for testing, but if you like it, then everyone else. This time it was very tasty, then two more were ordered, but the ice cream was not good. Usually Italian ice cream is delicious, but this one was kind of watery. We sat, rested, watched people ...I have already noted in my reviews more than once that in any other country I prefer to hear some kind of someone else's speech, not Russian with German. And even though I don’t understand anything in Italian, I feel that I’m abroad, that there is another country, other people, and dressed somehow differently ...But here, in fact, it was like that, we heard our Russian speech a couple of times , German a little more often, but mostly Italian, incomprehensible, "foreign" so to speak.
Our ferry goes to Gadenabbia, it's next to Tremezzo, a ticket for a car and three passengers one way costs 20.10 euros. And if you take a boat from Tremezzo to Bellagio, then the ticket costs 4.60 euros / person.
/one way. All information, including prices, is available on these sites:
http://www. navigazionelaghi. it/eng/c_illago.html
http://www. dercomersee. com/zeitplanschiffahrt. htm
Tremezzo, Villa Carlotta
http://www. comer-see-italien. com/comer-see-abc/villa-carlotta-in-tremezzo__128. htm
The villa was built at the end of the 16th century by the Marchese Giorgio Clerici. And it is famous mainly for its very large and beautiful garden, in which new plants, trees and shrubs were planted from century to century by new owners, and of course, a collected collection of works of art.
Quote: from the internet
"On the ground floor, paintings and sculptures from the collection of Gian Battista Sommariva are collected. A politician who lived at the beginning of the 19th century, a friend of Napoleon, was an avid collector and amassed an excellent collection in his house. Also here you can see works of art by Canova, Thorvaldsen and Hayez, as well as antique frieze dedicated to the triumph of Alexander the Great, and the famous painting "The Last Kiss of Romeo and Juliet. "
On other floors you can see private quarters, furniture, household items.
In the middle of the 19th century, the Prussian princess Marianne von Nassau bought this villa, and later she gave it to her daughter Charlotte as a wedding gift with Georg, Kronprinz von Sachsen-Meiningen. Kronprinz was a passionate botanist, a scientist in this field, who put a lot of effort into improving and further expanding and developing this unique garden / park.
The park is multi-level, there are paths, fountains, statues, stairs ...there is even a Japanese-style piece, a bamboo garden, almost in the central part of the garden there is La Valle Delle Felci: a stream valley, slightly reminiscent of a jungle. A stream flows deep below, around which paths are laid and fences are made ...alpine slides ...but what is there just not there!
The villa is currently owned by the Italian state and managed by the Villa Carlotta Association.
From the upper floors of the villa there are pictures of the lake, the mountains, Bellagio.
Tickets are sold at the kiosk, to the left of the central gate, there is a live queue, that is, if a tour bus arrives, then a queue appears, otherwise there is no one. There is free parking nearby, we arrived early, there were still places, we were lucky. If you walk a little to the left of the central fountains, there are 2 panoramic elevators that take you up to 2 levels, this was relevant to me. The three-story villa itself also has an elevator, so that all floors can be reached not only by stairs. It is forbidden to take pictures inside, they constantly monitor this, but everyone secretly takes pictures. And for some time there were no employees at all on the upper floors, so no one bothered to take pictures.
I liked the villa itself, but for me the main thing was the park. The end of April - everything is in bloom: rhododendron, azaleas, camellias and a host of other plants. The sun decided to please us that day and shone almost until the evening.
Needless to say, the riot of colors in the sun is something unusually beautiful than in raindrops, although it is also beautiful with raindrops, but not like in the sun.
Of the five garden villas we saw, Villa Carlotta's gardens were my favorite.
To be continued. . .
