LAKE COMO AND ITS VILLAS

h. 9.00 AM Meeting with a licensed tourist guide in Como. Transfer by private car/minivan to Cernobbio. A first stop to admire the cute lakefront view and its most important villas like Villa Pizzo, Villa Troubetzkoy e Villa D'Este. The tour will continue along the well-known “Strada Regina” in order to admire some more private villas facing the lake. A second stop at Lido di Lenno. Transfer by taxi-boat to XVIII-century delightful Villa Balbianello, perched on a breathtaking sheer promontory. It is a late-baroque mansion, surrounded by a beautiful park, which was chosen to shoot films such as Star Wars: Episode II - attack of the Clones (2002), Agent 007 – Casino Royale (2006). Back to Lido di Lenno. Time at your leisure for individual lunch. Transfer to Bellagio by ferryboat (public service). Guided visit to Villa Melzi d’Eril, built between 1808 and 1810 for Francesco Melzi d'Eril (1753-1816), Duke of Lodi, Vice President of Italian Republic under Napoleon and then Grand Chancellor of the Napoleonic Reign of Italy. The English-style gardens, were designed by the architect Luigi Canonica and by the botanist Luigi Villoresi, Guided visit to Bellagio, “the pearl of the lake situated on the tip of a promontory at the end of a mountainous chain where the lake forks. Transfer to Como by private car/minivan.