{"id":3915,"date":"2016-11-13T23:15:17","date_gmt":"2016-11-13T15:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/?p=3915"},"modified":"2019-02-03T15:10:09","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T07:10:09","slug":"carlotta-como","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/2016\/11\/13\/carlotta-como\/","title":{"rendered":"Villa Carlotta is another Lake Como Gem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among Lake Como&#8217;s grand villas, the Villa Carlotta is one of the three key ones to visit. The villa dominates the landscape near Tremezzo, with its grand garden facing that of rival Villa Melzi&#8217;s across the lake.<\/p>\n<p>In our three day visit of Lake Como, we started with Villa Carlotta and I think this was the right move because the villa itself pales in comparison to the Villa Balbianello.\u00a0This is because the\u00a0Carlotta is not as well furnished and doesn&#8217;t occupy that grand promontory over the lake that Balbianello does. However, it still adds to the romance of the area and is a great example of baroque artistry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Focus on the Garden<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The story goes that the owners of Carlotta and Melzi, in the early 1800s, were keen to best each other for the grandest garden on the lake. Hence, in a provurbial firing of shots across the lake, exotic foliage were planted. The garden covers seven hectares and includes bamboos, a Japanese torii gate, colourful azaleas, rhododendrons and numerous ferns. There&#8217;s even a terraced stream.\u00a0It takes around an hour to stroll around the main areas.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3919\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3919\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/2016\/11\/13\/villa-carlotta-is-another-lake-como-gem\/villa-carlotta-2016-09-25-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3919\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3919\" src=\"http:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Villa-Carlotta-2016-09-25-1--1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Lake Como's villas\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Villa-Carlotta-2016-09-25-1--1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Villa-Carlotta-2016-09-25-1--300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Villa-Carlotta-2016-09-25-1--768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3919\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Terraced colours brighten up Villa Carlotta&#8217;s garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3918\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3918\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/2016\/11\/13\/villa-carlotta-is-another-lake-como-gem\/villa-carlotta-2016-09-25-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3918\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3918\" src=\"http:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Villa-Carlotta-2016-09-25-2--1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Lake Como's Villa Carlotta\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Villa-Carlotta-2016-09-25-2--1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Villa-Carlotta-2016-09-25-2--300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Villa-Carlotta-2016-09-25-2--768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3918\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A stream wanders through from the upper level of the garden down to these trees<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3917\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3917\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/2016\/11\/13\/villa-carlotta-is-another-lake-como-gem\/villa-carlotta-2016-09-25-8\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3917\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3917\" src=\"http:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Villa-Carlotta-2016-09-25-8--1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Lake Como's villas\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Villa-Carlotta-2016-09-25-8--1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Villa-Carlotta-2016-09-25-8--300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Villa-Carlotta-2016-09-25-8--768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3917\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View of the lake from the villa&#8217;s garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Visit Details<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Villa Carlotta is easily accessible as it sits near the ferry landing point of Tremezzo. In general, Carlotta is open to visitors from March to mid-December from around 9:30am but hours differ slightly depending on\u00a0the season. The best thing to do is to check its official <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villacarlotta.it\/home.php?pag_id=9&amp;sez_id=13&amp;lang_id=2\" target=\"_blank\">websit<\/a>e, where tickets can also be purchased online.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3916\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3916\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/2016\/11\/13\/villa-carlotta-is-another-lake-como-gem\/villa-carlotta-2016-09-25-14\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3916\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3916\" src=\"http:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Villa-Carlotta-2016-09-25-14--1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Lake Como's villas\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Villa-Carlotta-2016-09-25-14--1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Villa-Carlotta-2016-09-25-14--300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Villa-Carlotta-2016-09-25-14--768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3916\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking up at the villa from the garden&#8217;s fountain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among Lake Como&#8217;s grand villas, the Villa Carlotta is one of the three key ones to visit. The villa dominates the landscape near Tremezzo, with its grand garden facing that of rival Villa Melzi&#8217;s across the lake. In our three day visit of Lake Como, we started with Villa Carlotta and I think this was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,1,19,124],"tags":[46,29,141],"class_list":["post-3915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-home","category-italy-europe","category-italy-northernitaly","tag-garden","tag-italy","tag-lake_como","latest_post"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Villa Carlotta is another Lake Como Gem - Gazing and Grazing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Among Lake Como&#039;s grand villas, the Villa Carlotta is one of the three key ones to visit with its grand garden of colourful flowers, ferns and lake views.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/2016\/11\/13\/carlotta-como\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Villa Carlotta is another Lake Como Gem - 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