DIcono is the fault (or merit) of George Clooney who bought Villa Oleandra in 2002 Laglioon the noble branch of Lake Como (not the Manzonian one of Lecco). This summer George and his wife Amal spent at Villa Oleandra on the entire August, and exceptionally opened their doors for two dinners to the sixteen guests-Filantropi who joined the exclusive five-day stay on the lake. The goal of the Charity event: collect one million dollars in favor of the Clooney Foundation for Justice. Of course, a little bit of disarray Clooney brought it: imagine Brad Pitt looking for a house at Varennaon the opposite bank, and does not find a fairly large one, or Ben Affleck that appeals a real estate agency. But sooner or later it had to happen. In the USA, tourism magazines dedicate at least two services a year to our lakes.
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On the way in nature: the Orme Festival returns to Trentino
All the secrets of the villas on the lake
Bellagio was already a mythso much so that he has his good hotel-Casinò in Las Vegas. Now Bellagio It is the title of the sturgeon passions-and-mists of Monica Savaresias soon as you get out of SEM. While Giunti announces theA saga of Silvia Montemurro dedicated to five princely residences of Lake Como. First volume, The secret of Villa Carlottathe fictional affair of the poor and beautiful Carlotta of Prussia. Just in Villa Carlotta, at the end of June, the project was presented To the Women Who Are Not Allawed To Fulfill Their Dreams! / To all those women who are not allowed to make their dreams come truetwo interventions inside and in the garden of the artist Maria Dompè.
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From Vincenzo Bellini to Star Wars, the stars who love the lake
The lake boredom that Riccardo Pazzaglia made fun of the show Those of the night (“Is it better to the sea, to the mountains, or even worse, to the lakes?”) It has become Lagomania. It will be because, after decades of disinterest, the stars are back, Leonardo di Caprio al Vitorial (Garda lake) with his girlfriend model Vittoria Ceretti, John Legend at Passalacqua (Lake Como), a magnificent villa of the 1700s that preserves the luxurious and rarefied atmosphere of when Vincenzo Bellini made up the Rulethe royalty of Jordan at the Lefay of Gargnano (Lake Garda). It will be because they have entered the large cinematographic series, Villa Balbianello in Star Wars (still Como) and the Panoramic road of the Forra (Garda) in 007 Quantum of Solace. Or maybe because there is a lot of talk about “Blue Mind Effect”, the ability of water to create calm and serenity.
Therefore the lakes agreed five -star and pop tourism. Varenna was stormed like Amalfi and Portofino: 57,299 visitors in a blow between 18 and 22 April, 18 thousand on the 25th of the same month with understandable shock of the 700 residents. Villa monasterywhich hosts a precious exhibition dedicated to Ken Scott (until 10 October, 55 thousand tickets detached in July), is sold out for wedding receptions. Near the marina, a gentleman dressed as captain brings tourists to a motorboat: on the lake map, a arrow indicates only “George”.
The Bella Island, on Lake Maggiore, famous for Palazzo Borromeo and the Italian garden consisting of ten terraces. Photo Getty Images.
Prohibited to get bored
In waterfall, the revaluation of all the mirrors of water, large and small. And you don’t get bored. On the Lake Maggiore there is a lot to do and see: until 11 October in the municipalities between Injured And Sesto Calende continues Lakescapescalendar of music and theater events. Stresa It is the epicenter of the Music festival which closes on September 6, 2025 with the performance of the London Symphony Orchestra directed by Sir Antonio Pappano, and the starting point for various excursions. The most requested, they say at the Grand Hotel des Iles Borromées that boasts a Hemingway suite (it seems to have written some pages of here Farewell to weapons) and cocktails dedicated to him, is that at Borromee Islandsstill owned by the historic Borromeo family, related to the marriage with the lambs Elkan and the principles of Monaco.
To the tested charm of theMother islandthe largest and most exotic, and ofBeautiful islandalmost a gigantic vessel that emerges from the blue, the Castles of Cannerotwo rocky islets about three hundred meters from the bank, painted in a romantic watercolor by William Turner in 1843. An ambitious restoration project of 15 million euros, wanted by Borromeo, has given voice to these ruins. So the ancient fortress returned to live. Open to the public from June 28 it has become “the museum of itself”. Cannero Walking Tales It is a path made of stairways, balconies, open -air catwalks. Three installations tell about the story through animated graphics and augmented reality; And for the little ones, an interactive treasure hunt. The trip to sunset is in great demand.
Villa del Balbianello, near Lenno, on Lake Como. Open to the public, it is managed by FAI. Photo Alamy.
Flying with water pile
As for Romanticism, the Borromee have few rivals, but Lake Garda, the largest in Italy (370 square kilometers) competes with the sea in the brand new sports sports: Wing Foil, Surf Foil and Kitesurf Foil. They are practiced using a table and an inflatable wing, not connected to each other by cables or hooks, which allows you to get up from the water and plan. If there is no wind you go to canoeing, kayak or sup. Sirmioneof Catullian memory, Desenzano And Lemon Are they too crowded? It is the golden moment for more secluded lakes like Ledro (the water is hot, 24 degrees, almost a swimming pool) a few kilometers from Riva del Garda, or Tennoturquoise gem set in the woods in the Biosphere of Biosphere Alps Ledresi and Judicaria, UNESCO site.
Tenno lake set in the Alpine landscape of Trentino. Photo Getty Images.
This house (on the lake) is a hotel
On the wave of Lagomania, also villages such as Toscolano Madernoalways on Garda, so far little attempted by tourism, they are reconverting. Sorting of paper and iron sorting between the fifteenth and twentieth century, as well as the lemon trade, Toscolano Maderno is about to become a destination of charming. Palazzo Delai, a fascinating noble residence, will have a new season in the Hospitality: 8-9 suite, “Not a brand, a hotel, but a house”, an elegant garden, a wall lemon grove that develops parallel to the lake bank, and inside, decorated ceilings, frescoes, boiseries. On the majestic stone portal, next to the coat of arms of the Delai family, the Latin motto “Hic Manebimus Optime” (by Tito Livio), “here we will be very well” embroidered also on the staff uniforms. This idea of the home that is a hotel, but it does not seem, is trendy.
Casa Fantini, Boutique Hotel in Pella, on Lake Orta. Courtesy Casa Fantini.
The same spirit animates Casa Fantini/Lake Time (CasafantinilaKetime.com/it), Boutique Hotel designed by Archistar Piero Lissoni with large windows and natural materials such as wood and stone for the interiors, in perfect balance with the landscape of Orta lake: 11 rooms overlooking the Island of San Giuliowhere everything is fluid, even decide when and where to have breakfast: in the room, on the terrace, in the room or on the veranda.
Villa Carlotta, in Stenmezzina, on Lake Como. Photo Sime.
The charm of historical homes
But wherever there is a historical home, there are important investments and restorations that attract the Celebs. They say that Taylor Swift and boyfriend Travis Kelce exchanged the marriage promises on Lake Como, at Villa Sola Cabiati (Grandhoteltremezzo.com/it) spectacular eighteenth -century residence of the Serbelloni dukes (now managed by Valentina De Santis, Grand Hotel Tremezzo), famous for the frescoes of the Tiepolo school.
The Fontana di Paride and Elena in the park of the Grand Hotel et des Iles Borromées, in Stresa, on Lake Maggiore.
Between vintage style furnishings
Among the memorabilia, a hat of Napoleon Bonaparte and a blue dress by his wife Giuseppina. De Santis, after enrolling the volcanic Chef Viviana Varese, asked the stylist Luisa Beccaria to take care of the furniture of the living areas, the gazebos and the external salons, in harmony with the colors of the house and landscape. Every detail seems thought when the villa was born: borders and fringes in the shades of wisteria, furnishings and umbrellas in gray and blue, nothing too modern.
The village of Toscolano Maderno, on Lake Garda. Photo Sime.
Wrapped in a thin spleen
Lake Lovers also increase in the absence of prestigious buildings. TO Bellano The idea that anyone could end up in a novel by Andrea Vitali is fun (the last is The prophecy of poor ErasmusRizzoli), whose notoriety has distorted the happy anonymity of the village. It is easy to meet both he and Velasco, a very quoted artist, the son of another Vitali, the painter Giancarlo, to whom a museum has just been dedicated. Giancarlo Vitali, who disappeared in 2018, said that the lake’s disease is a thin spleen, a delicious indolence, which pushes you to remain where you are (he never moved). We too, Hic Manebimus Optime. © RESERVED REPRODUCTION
Villa Monastero, in Varenna, on Lake Como.
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