TREMEZZO

Tremezzo is famous thanks to Villa Carlotta, one of the most beautiful Villas of Como Lake.
The Villa, built around 1690, was Marquis Giorgio Clerici’s country house. He was an important person of Spanish and then Austrian Milano.
His initial, a big C, is inscribed in the cancel in front of the lake. He wanted the beautiful ceilings painted in baroque Lombard style on the second floor and the Italian Garden with stairs, balustrades, fountains and a waterfall with dwarfs.
More than 500 different species grow in the lush garden, embellished with monumental staircases. The botanical garden thrives in the mild environment of the lake: there are a giant sequoia, an oak, a camphor tree, a myrrh tree, a papyrus and a banana trees.
Inside the Villa it is possible to admire Antonio Canova’s marble stones like Amore e Psiche, Berthel Thorwalsen’s decoration sculpted from 1917 to 1828, Thordwalsen’s decorations, Giulietta and Romeo’s last kiss by Francesco Hayez, Appiani’s frescoes and also tapestries and furniture from eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.