Villa "I Platani" has been in the family for many generations. It owes its sobriquet to the largest oriental plane (Platanus orientalis) on Earth, and to its "brother", which has been pruned in the French style for centuries so as to form a network of branches. Other features on the grounds are various monumental trees, among which one of Europe�s oldest Gingko bilobas; a grotto with waterfall; a XVII Century boathouse; and San Vincenzo, a miniature of a Romanesque church built with stones taken from ancient Roman villas. Pliny the Younger had a villa possibly on our property, and, as he wrote in a letter, used to fish in the lake directly from a window.
The interiors are all decorated with ancient furniture and paintings, chiefly from the XVIII and XIX Century, which have been in possession of the family for generations.
Lake Como has attracted interesting people for millennia. From the two Plinies, in ancient Roman times, to Stendhal, Byron, Shelley, Liszt and Rossini, during the romantic age. |
