Villa Melzi

Villa Melzi

As a political rival political of Giambattista Sommariva, Francesco Melzi openly challenged him to build a Neoclassical villa and a refined English garden on the opposite shore of the lake with secular examples of the Cedars of Lebanon and suggestive botanical...
Villa Carlotta

Villa Carlotta

The Clerici villa was bought in1801 by Giambattista Sommariva, an art collector and one of the most powerful men in Italy during the days of Napoleonic rule: he enriched the gardens with exotic plants and the house with works by Canova, Thorvalden and Hayez,...