Villa Carlotta

WE’LL DRIVE YOU TO VILLA CARLOTTA!
We offer a discounted rate for school groups visiting the villa.
Villa Carlotta offers a discounted admission price for ASF subscribers holding a monthly or annual pass.
School groups
For all school groups visiting Villa Carlotta, it is possible to travel on routes
C10 (Como-Menaggio-Colico)
C12 (Menaggio-Porlezza-Lugano)
C20 (Como-Argegno-Lanzo)
With the fare 1 ticket
ASF season pass
If you show yourr valid ticket at the ticket office in Villa Carlotta, you will get discounted admission.



Villa Carlotta welcomes you with its magnificent botanical park and rooms full of art where the masterpieces of nature and human ingenuity coexist harmoniously in 70,000 square meters of gardens and museum facilities.
In a natural basin, between the lake and the mountains, Marquis Giorgio Clerici had this splendid mansion built in the late 1600s, imposing yet sober, surrounded by an Italian garden, facing a breathtaking backdrop of the Grigne Mountains and Bellagio.
With Gian Battista Sommariva, who bought the property in the early 19th century, the villa reached its peak of splendor, being enriched with works of art and becoming a must-see destination for a visit to Lake Como. He wanted part of the garden to be transformed into an extraordinary romantic park and the villa to be embellished with masterpieces by Canova, Thorvaldsen and Hayez.
From September to November, the romantic avenues have a very special charm: fall lights them up with warm hues of red, brown, and orange with splashes of yellow.
Among the varieties that adorn this splendid, terraced garden, traversed by a 17th-century staircase, don’t miss the Ginkgo Biloba and its characteristic fan-shaped leaves that take on a beautiful golden color in late summer.
You can also admire the Metasequoia glyptostroboides known as the Water Fir, it is one of the few conifers that loses its flat, long leaves in autumn, carpeting the garden with a beautiful red-brown mantle.
Finally, Liquidambar styraciflua or Storax with its wonderful large, dark green star-shaped leaves take on a striking purple or orange-red color before falling.