Lake Como Sanctuary

By mid-afternoon the following day, the high-speed transit across northern Italy had brought them to the tranquil, crystalline paradise of Lake Como. Tucked away in a private cove beneath the sheer alpine cliffs of Bellagio stood Villa Bellagio—a historic seventeenth-century stone palazzo surrounded by terraced cypress gardens, blooming lemon groves, and private marble water gates that opened directly onto the deep blue lake. The estate had belonged to House Bianchi…