Villa Carlotta, il giardino e il museo. Guida storico-artistica

This is a handy, easy-to-use guide for visiting Villa Carlotta, a fascinating monument with a great artistic and botanical heritage. The villa was built on the west shore of Lake Como at the end of the 17th century by Marquis Giorgio Clerici, a wealthy Como merchant. In 1795 the property passed to the Sommariva family and, in 1843, was purchased by Princess Marianne of Nassau, the wife of Albert of Prussia, who gave it to her daughter Charlotte on the occasion of her marriage to Crown Prince Georg von Sachsen-Meiningen. Since 1927, the maintenance, conservation and enhancement of the heritage of the villa, now the property of the Italian State, have been entrusted to the Ente Villa Carlotta, which manages the property with painstaking care. The guide describes two tours, one of the important art collections and the other of the extraordinary garden famous for its more than 150 varieties of azaleas an rhododendrons. The tours are prefaced by a brief history covering the most significant