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The Italian Lakes' Top 14
Villa Carlotta
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Imagine a landscape caught between fantasy and reality, a green theatre where
statues might easily move, fountains and sculpture embody encoded messages and the air is
full of strange noises as water trickles down walls and gurgles in shell-encrusted grottoes.
No, this isn't Shakespeare's magical isle in
The Tempest
, but the fabulous world of high
Renaissance, baroque and neoclassical gardens such as Giardino Giusti (
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), Isola
Bella (
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)
, Isola Madre (
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), Villa Balbianello (
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)
and Villa Car-
lotta (
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)
.
