Historical 18th cent Mansion-When luxury &traditio...

5 Beds

Como San Giovanni Train Station

22012

From €3000 per night

Historical 18th cent Mansion-When luxury &traditio...

From €3000 per night

Como San Giovanni Train Station

22012

Apartment Types

7 Bedroom

5 5

Max residents: 10

From €3000 per night

This fully-staffed property has direct access to all the pleasures of Lake Como; a private boat dock and a swimming platform that can be reached by steps from the garden. A seaplane can whisk you to St Moritz in 20 minutes. Neighboring Torno, with its charming harbour dominated by an impressive church, has a wonderful waterside restaurant, Ristoranti Momi and Villa d'Este is directly opposite - just a short boat ride on the villa's self-drive water craft. Enclosed estate with 2.5 hectare private park. Beautiful gardens, walking paths. Heated pool set in upper lawn furnished for 18 with lake view.

Large deck around pool. Private boat dock. Granite stairs to private swimming platform on lake. Outdoor living area with comfortable seating. Outdoor patio for dining alfresco (accommodates 12 - 26 guests)Underground garage with direct entrance to villa and elevator to all floors. Primary entrance through courtyard. Formal entrance hall with staircase to first floor and elevator.Music room with Steinway grand piano and seating for 12-14. Three arched glass doors lead to stone balcony which runs the length of the house. Formal drawing room with working fireplace and seating for 8-10. Doors opens to balcony and garden.

Formal dining room with working fireplace comfortably accommodates 14-26. Kitchen (six-gas and four-electric burners, large oven, convection/microwave oven, Amana refrigerator, separate freezer, small fridge for beverages, double sinks, two dishwashers). Glass door opens to dining terrace. Formal reception hall with elevator access and stairs to top floor Sitting room with satellite TV, DVD and CD player. Comfortable seating for six. Lake-view north: double bedroom (king) reached directly through sitting room. Ensuite bath (tub with hand-held shower, open shower stall)

Exquisitely located on the southwestern shore of Lake Como in a beautiful gated private park, Villa wasonce owned by the celebrated Swedish ballet dancer, Marie Taglioni, and have since welcomed esteemed guests including Bellini, Rossini and Franz Liszt. Now fully restored to their 19th century splendour, the villa can accommodate 14 guests in refined grandeur, or smaller groups when renting the individual villas.

This historical 18th century lakeshore mansion is located in a stunning position three miles from the charming old city Como – straight in front of the iconic Grand Hotel Villa d’Este – and accommodates up to 14 people in 7 luxuriously appointed bedrooms each with a marble bathrooms and dressing rooms. The service of a very high level will be provided by the professional staff. The public areas include a frescoed sitting room, a reading room, a music room, and a beautiful dining room leading out to a lake shore balcony. Seven acres of luxuriant gardens include a landscape pool, a panoramic terrace and the dock.

Villa offers wonderful walks in the park from where you can reach the Lake Shore Village with its charming square on the harbor, its seventeen century church, and the village garden with its lovely pergola. The overall property consists in two twin aristocratic side-by-side interconnected lakeside villas – dating back to the 18th century. Both have been completely renovated and personally refurnished by the owners and offer the very best of modern living combined with wonderful fine furniture of the family. They are securely located, down a quarter mile gated road guarded by a quaint old gate-house, in the midst of seven acres of luxuriant gardens and woods.