TREMEZZO, Villa Carlotta - Gardens

The Villa Carlotta botanical garden is one of the most beautiful in Italy, with a variety of flowers and plants from all over the world.

When Marquis Giorgio Clerici had the villa built in 1690, the size of the park was much smaller than it is today. At the time, there was only the area which is still kept as an Italian garden, with manicured flower beds, hedges, fountains, water features and statues. Imagine that this area, organized in terraces bordered by elegant stone parapets and stairways, used to be planted with an incredible variety of citrus fruits, now confined to a single terrace, where they form two romantic tunnels that blossom from spring to summer and produce wonderful fruit until winter. This area of the garden is also home to prized climbing roses and beautiful camellias.

When the property passed to Gian Battista Sommariva in 1801, new land was purchased to create an English-style park. But it is thanks to the Prince of Saxony-Meiningen, who owned the villa from the second half of the 19th century, that the garden reached its present size and shape. So today, around the Italian garden, you can admire the romantic garden with monumental plants, a beautiful forest of rhododendrons, hydrangeas, English roses and azaleas....