VILLA PASSALACQUA - THE GARDEN OF LAKE COMO

VILLA PASSALACQUA

Villa Passalacqua is among the most prestigious Historic villas in the Como area, featuring an Italian-style garden with scenic terraces sloping towards the lake. The villa has played host to important figures, including the composer Vincenzo Bellini, who drew inspiration for a least two of his most famous operas, "La Sonnambula" and "Norma". The villa was built in the 18th century by Felice Soave, a Swiss architect from Lugano. Hidden beyond its austere exterior are elaborate interiors with stuccos and decorations by an artist from the Lugano area, Giocondo Albertoli, with frescoes by the Milanese artist Andrea Appiani. The Villa is circled by a lawn terrace, on which there is a gazebo and a well-curb, ball-shaped box trees, pools with bronze statues and symmetrical flower beds. A staircase descends from here to meet the double driveway that comes up from the lakeside entrance. The driveway's mirrored cuves design large plots of grass or star jasmine (unconventional as ground cover), made vibrant with ancient oleandera, palm trees, azaleas, wisteria, a small waterfall. The current owners have turned the large open spaces outside of the path into fascinating themed gardens: if we turn  our backs to the villa, from up down, on the right we come across the swimming pool with a greenhouse, a rose garden, an olive grove and a cutting garden; on the left are the " Tuscan Garden", with flower beds bordered by boxwood hedges, a fruit orchard, a vegetable garden and an annex. near the lakeside gate, the water flowing through the garden collects in a pool with water lilies. The impeccably cared for garden is fascinating on its own, but it is all the more spectacular for having been built on grand underground tunnels connecting the villa to the dock.

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VILLA LA COLLINA - THE GARDEN OF LAKE COMO

VILLA LA COLLINA

The Villa la Collina, built in 1895, was the summer residence of German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer from 1959. The Villa is situated in a fantastic park with a breathtaking view over Bellagio. Today Villa la Collina and the "Accademia Konrad Adenauer" offer their services ti the public as international meeting centres for politics, economics and culture, in a beautifully maintained park of 28,000 square metres.

The venue can also be used as a conference centre and as a hotel. The Villa stands on a hill in the middle of the park with fine cedars, Scots pines,chestnut trees and cypresses. There are walks through which visitors can discover the enchanted atmosphere of the park. The slope down to the lake is quite steep and is terraced with grey granite walls, punctuated with niches. These niches are one of the true jewels of the park; they protect peach, lemon, apple and pear trees. The Villa la Collina gardeners have created a vegetable garden and flowerbeds, surrounded by rose and hazel bushes. There are many paths leading back to the park and the beautiful open air pool. In this part of the garden are luxuriant rose bushes, azaleas and rows of hydrangeas and rhododendrons. On the other side of the lake, a chain of mountains rises up, covered with snow for most of the year. To the north, the vista opensonto the Valtellina mountains. The Villa is connected to the Accademia Konrad Adenauer by a stone stairway with 118 steps. The boundary of the land is dotted with romantic  gazebos, and behind these is the Adenauer Walk, so named beacause Chancellor Adenauer used to walk along it in Sundays to attend mass at the Parish Church of Griante.

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THE GARDEN OF LAKE COMO - A WORLD UNIQUE IN THE WORLD

VILLA BAGATTI VALSECCHI

Between Menaggio and Porlezza, there is one of the most remarkable gardens in Lombardy, whose uniqueness derives, above all, from the stunning landscape in which it is situated. It was started in 1700 by Giovanni Battista Guaita, a member of a highly esteemed local family. It was only in the 19th century that a garden was created by the Barons Galbiati, Milanese bankers. In 1896, it was inherited by the Barons Bagatti Valsecchi from Belvignate, who own it to this day. The site is rendered extraordinary by the natural setting around it: the villa is located in the highest part of the village, on the edge of a natural balcony with the Val Sanagra below.

The garden, created on the terraces located on the balcony, overlooks a precipice whose ledges are

covered with shrubbery and which pluges down for 100 metres to the valley below, along which the River Sanagra flows in a magnificient scenery. It is thrilling spectacle, because at a height of just 400m a.s.l., you think you are in the Dolomites, partly due to the conifer forest planted in the 19th century by the Galbiati, who also built a tower from which there is a magnificent view of Lake Como and the Val Menaggio. The garden is not only  framed by this natural setting, with Mounts Grigna and Grona in the distance, but also is enhanced by level areas of terrain, purchased by Pasino Bagatti Valsecchi (president of the Lombardy Horticultural Society) and decorated with cypresses, herbaceous borders, dwarf conifers and dahlias (on which he was an expert, building up a large collection). The responsability of tending such as exceptional garden has now been entrusted tu Pasino's son, the landscape architect Baron Pier Fausto Bagatti Valsecchi. 



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Spring Escape ....NEW LIFESTYLE CONCEPT: LUXURY HOTEL AND PRIVATE VILLAS

                                                

Spring Escape
Valid from March 20 to May  02, 2013

 

The Package includes:

•  2 nights in classic room with garden view.
•  Buffet gourmet breakfast at the Restaurant.
•  Entrance to the wellness area of the CastaDiva SPA featuring: Finnish sauna, Mediterranean bath, hammam, emotional showers, ice cascade, vertical Kneipp, salt room for the haloteraphy, indoor heated pool with jet showers, jacuzzi, fitness center with state-of-the-art Technogym equipment.
•  A relaxing massage in one of our SPA Suites, Earth, Water, Air or Fire (50 min.)
•  A 3-course dinner (beverages not included) at our lake restaurant Orangerie.
•  Scheduled daily shuttle service from/to Como downtown (minivan up to 7 pax).
•  Wifi.
•  VAT and service.

Price per person, per package:
In double classic (max 2 pax) €   505,00
In double deluxe lake view     €   595,00
In junior suite lake view        €   695,00
In suite lake view                  €   965,00

Prices may be subject to City Tax applicable per person, per day.

Confirmation and Modality of Payment:
Package and service included have to be confirmed at least 3 days prior to the arrival. Credit card details are required to guarantee booking.
Cancellation Policy:
No penalties for cancellation received within 3 days prior the arrival day.
For later cancellations or in case of no shows, the 50% of the total cost of package will be charged.

Any unused service included in the package is not subject to any price reduction.

Easter get away on Lake Como....WHERE MAGIC MEETS REALITY

               

                                                   Easter get away on Lake Como
                                             Valid from March 29  to April 02, 2013
                                                      (arrival on March 29, 30, 31)
 

Enjoy your Easter holiday on the beautiful shores of Lake Como

The package includes:

• 3 nights in a classic garden view room.
• Gourmet buffet breakfast at the restaurant.
• Daily entrance to the wellness area of the SPA featuring: Finnish sauna, Mediterranean bath, hammam, emotional showers, ice cascade, vertical Kneipp, salt room, indoor heated pool with jet showers, jacuzzi, fitness center with state-of-the-heart Technogym equipment.
• A detox, draining and purifying massage with sea weed extract or a  Dual Sensation relaxing massage with gentle honey scrub transmuting into a nurishing butter in one of our SPA suite, Water, Air, Earth of Fire.
• Easter lunch (bevarages not included).
• 3-course dinner at L’Orangerie restaurant (beverages not included).
• Shuttle service to/from Como downtown.
• VAT and service.

                                                    Easter Lunch Menu
           Boiled quail eggs, Coratella liver lemb paté, goose salami, classic Easter cheese “Focaccia”
                                                Flute of Prosecco Aneri # 5
                                                                ****
           Variation of artichokes Artichokes served in three different ways and three different textures
                                                                 ****
                           Crispy lasagna, with asparagus, goat blue cheese and glazed shallots
                                                                 ****
                                Stew lamb shank, with fried broccoli and butter spinach sautée
                                                                 ****
                                        Classic Pastiera of Napoli with orange custard cream
                             Friandise, Chocolates, Home hand-made classic “Colomba” cake
                                                                Coffee

Total cost of package per person:
   
in classic double room (max 2 pax) €      780,00
in deluxe double room lake view             930,00
in junior suite lake view                      1.065,00
in suite lake view                                1.327,50

Children sharing parents’ room free of charge up to 11 years old; a special 50% discount will be
applied on the supplement for Easter lunch.

Companion, no SPA treatment
in classic double room                  €       670,00
in deluxe double room lake view            820,00
in junior suite lake view                        955,00
in suite lake view                               1.217,50

Extra nights, per room, per day, overnight and breakfast
In classic double room                €    350,00
in deluxe double room lake view       450,00
in junior suite lake view                   550,00
in suite lake view                             710,00

Rates may be subject to a daily City tax applicable per person.

Cancellation Policy:
No penalties for cancellation received within 4 days prior the arrival day.
For later cancellations or in case of no shows, the 50% of the total cost of package will be
charged.

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