Villa Carlotta

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26 september 2016Travel time: 2 august 2015
One of the most famous and most beautiful lakes in the world is Lake Como in Italy. Surrounded by high mountains, with a scattering of resort towns along the shore, the lake captivates from the first moment you drive up to it. And having lived on the lake for several days, you understand why many celebrities acquire luxurious mansions here - magnificent views and amazing panoramas of Lake Como leave no one indifferent.
On the western side of the lake along the picturesque Gulf of Venus is the popular resort of Tremezzino, formed by three cities - Lenno, Tremezzo and Mezzegra.
The city of Lenno is famous for its Villa Balbianello and its long promenade, which offers stunning views of the Gulf of Venus.
About Lenno and Villa Balbianello:
http://www.turpravda.ua/it/como/blog-181157.html
http://www.turpravda.ua/places/it/como_lake/Villa_Balbjanello-s6207/r181087.html
The village of Mezzegra is better known as the place where Benito Mussolini was shot along with his mistress Claretta Petacci.
And the city of Tremezzo gave its name to the Riviera della Tremezzina or Riviera Azalea, sung since the Middle Ages as a place of eternal spring.
Today Tremezzo is a popular tourist resort famous for its luxury villas and hotels. It was this town that was the favorite vacation spot of Konrad Adenauer, the first Federal Chancellor of Germany.
Tremezzo is located very close to Lenno - you can get there by bus in 15 minutes and 1 euro, or you can take a walking promenade.
The most famous landmark of Tremezzo is Villa Carlotta, which attracts, first of all, with its magnificent park.
Built by order of the Marquis Giorgio Clerici in 1690 as a summer residence, the villa changed owners several times over time, each of whom contributed to its improvement - the house is surrounded by a luxurious Italian garden with numerous staircases, graceful fountains and snow-white marble statues.
In the halls of the first floor of the villa, you can see sculptures by Antonio Canova and Thorvaldsen, an antique frieze dedicated to the triumph of Alexander the Great, and the famous painting “The Last Kiss of Romeo and Juliet” by Francesco Hayez.
In the mid-nineteenth century, the manor was given to Charlotte of Prussia by her mother Marianne as a wedding dowry. Charlotte's husband Georg Saxe-Meiningen, a passionate botanist, himself took care of the improvement of the huge garden, making it world famous.
You can get to Villa Carlotta by boats plying the lake (water transport stop Tremezzo or Villa Carlotta) or by bus from the city of Como.
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