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Villa Monastero is located in Varenna, Province of Lecco, on the shore of Lake Como.It includes a botanical garden, a museum, and a convention center, contains precious architecture, period furniture, works of art and a beautiful park that extends to Fiumelatte (river) with paths overlooking the lake, tall cypresses and many species of exotic plants.
Lake Como (Italian: Lago di Como [ˈlaːɡo di ˈkɔːmo], locally [a]), also known as Lario, [b] is a lake of glacial origin in Lombardy, Italy. It has an area of 146 square kilometres (56 sq mi), making it the third-largest lake in Italy, after Lake Garda and Lake Maggiore .
Across the lake in the province of Como are: Bellagio, Griante and Menaggio. Villa Monastero, in between Varenna and Fiumelatte is nowadays a museum, botanical garden and convention center. It was founded as a Cistercian monastery in the 11th or 12th century. [3] It is served by Varenna-Esino-Perledo station, on the Tirano–Lecco railway.
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Bellagio is part of the Central Lake Como area, which, together with Lierna, Varenna, Fiumelatte, Cadenabbia, Menaggio, and Tremezzina, is the most exclusive area of Lake Como, with lake-view villa prices exceeding 100 million euros in value. However, purchasing one is almost impossible, as no one sells them, making them a global status symbol.
Laglio (Italian:; Comasco: Lài) [3] is an Italian comune of 930 inhabitants in the Province of Como in Lombardy. It is on the western shore of the south-western branch of Lake Como, 14 kilometres (9 mi) from the town of Como.
It lies at the end of the south-eastern branch of Lake Como (the branch is named Branch of Lecco / Ramo di Lecco). The Bergamo Alps rise to the north and east, cut through by the Valsassina of which Lecco marks the southern end. The lake, narrows to form the River Adda, so bridges were built to improve road communications with Como and Milan.
Villa Fontanelle in 2007. Villa Fontanelle is a villa (sometimes called a palazzo) near Moltrasio on Lake Como in Lombardy, Italy, about 50 kilometres (31 mi) from Milan.The four-storey yellow-painted building was built in the first half of the nineteenth century by the eccentric Lord Charles Currie, a visiting Englishman who fell in love with Lake Como.