Villa Carlotta is a museum and botanical garden along Como Lake located in a sunny and mild area.Thanks to the suitable location at the end of the XII century Marquise Giorgio Clerici decided to build a magnificent villa surrounded by a beautiful Italian-style garden with statues;stairs and fountains.The second owner was Gian Battista Sommariva;he acquired the villa at the beginning of XIX century and embellished it with masterpieces of Canova;Hayez and Thorvaldsen.
The property has been given to Carlotta by her mother as a present in occasion of the marriage with George II;duke of Sachsen Meiningen.Keen about the botanic;he developed and increased the importance of the garden.Nowadays villa Carlotta is famous not only for its azaleas and rhododendron blossom;but also for the ancient collection of camellias;for the exotic and rare plants;monumental trees and flowers.