The Villa d'Este , originally Villa del Garovo , is a Renaissance family residence in Cernobbio on the shore of Lake Como, northern Italy. Both the villa and the 25 acre (100,000 m) garden, which surround it have undergone significant changes since the 16th century origin as the summer residence for Cardinal Como. Nevertheless, visiting the park in 1903 for Century Magazine Edith Wharton found this to be 'the only old park in Como that stores more than one fragment of its original architecture', and notes that 'although Queen Caroline part of the land, the main part of the Renaissance garden still exists'.
Since 1873, this complex has become a luxury hotel.
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Gerardo Landriani, Bishop of Como (1437-1445), founded a monastery here in the mouth of torrent Garovo in 1442. A century later Cardinal Tolomeo Gallio destroyed the monastery and commissioned Pellegrino Tibaldi to design a residence for his own use. Villa del Garovo, along with its lavish garden, was built during the years 1565-70 and during the cardinal's lifetime became a resort of politicians, intellectuals and ecclesiastics. When Gallio died, the villa was given to his family who, for years, let him drown in disrepair. From 1749 to 1769 it was the Jesuit center for spiritual practice, after which it was first acquired by Count Mario Odescalchi and then in 1778 by Count Marliani. In 1784 it was forwarded to the Milanese Calderari family who undertook a major restoration project and created a new park all'Italiana with an impressive nymphaeum and a temple displaying a seventeenth-century Hercules statue that threw the Lichas into the ocean.. After the death of Marquis Calderari, his wife, Vittoria Peluso, a former ballerina at La Scala and known as I Pelusina, married a Napoleon general, Count Domenico Pino and a mock castle erected in the garden in his honor..
In 1815, this place became the home of Caroline of Brunswick, a wife far apart from the future of King George IV. "The garden looks almost suspended in the air," he writes in his diary, "and forms a complete charm scene." She gave it the name Nuova Villa d'Este and has a beautiful garden in English style.
It was transformed into a luxury hotel for the nobility and high bourgeoisie in 1873, and retained the name of Villa d'Este to take advantage of the real connection with the famous Villa d'Este in Tivoli, near Rome. The gala dinner held at Villa d'Este in 1948 was the scene of the massacre of the famous silk factory of Carlo Sacchi, who was shot dead by her lover, Countess Pia Bellentani, with her husband's Fegyverzyar automatic.
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Today, with the average room rate of EUR1000 ($ 1122) overnight and the top suite is an average of EUR3500 ($ 3926.) Per night, the villa is a luxury hotel for the wealthy and the high-end congress center.
In June 2009 Forbes considered it the best hotel in the world, while in 2008 it was listed as the 15th best hotel in Europe and the 69th best hotel in the world by Travel Leisure magazine.
Every April the hotel hosts the Concours d'Elegance for antique and concept cars, the first Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este presented in 1928; in September hosted the annual Ambrosetti Forum, an international workshop attended by prominent figures from politics, finance and business that have been going on there since 1975.
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Further reading
- Desmond, Steven (2016). Italian Lake Gardens (Hardback) . London: Frances Lincoln. ISBN: 978-0-7112-3630-1.
External links
Media related to Villa d'Este (Cernobbio) in Wikimedia Commons
- Official Site
- Edgcumbe Staley, Lord and Mrs. Lake of Italy (London: John Long, 1912), p. 116-129.
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