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Landing stage, Villa del Balbianello
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Villa Carlotta
MUSEUM, GARDEN
OFFLINE MAP
At the 17th-century Villa Carlotta, the botanical gardens are filled with colour in
spring from orange trees knitted into pergolas and from some of Europe's finest
collections of rhododendrons, azaleas and camellias. The villa, which is strung
with paintings, sculptures (especially by Antonio Canova) and tapestries, takes its
name from the Prussian princess who was given the place in 1847 as a wedding
present from her mother.
(
0344 4 04 05;
www.villacarlotta.it
; Via Regina 2; adult/reduced
€9/5;
9am-5pm Easter-Sep, 10am-4pm mid-Mar-Easter & Oct-mid-Nov;
Cadenabbia)
