Enjoy a glamorous ride by water taxi limo and allow our local expert to open the doors of one of the most beautiful villas of Lake Como, Villa Carlotta. The beautiful villa was built at the end of XVII century by the Milanese marquis Giorgio Clerici in a natural basin between lake and mountains, facing the alps and the peninsula of Bellagio. The villa became a temple of XIX century art with works of Canova, Thorvaldsen and Hayez: Palamedes, Eros and Psyche, Terpsychore, The last kiss of Romeo and Juliet is only one of the masterpieces that enriches the extraordinary collection. If you think you have seen enough of beauty, you clearly have not taken a stroll around the villa’s gardens. Extensively surrounding the villa, these gardens are a blissful botanical serenity made of lovely pathways and floral lanes.