Where Movies Come to Life: Lake Como Film Sets

Highlights

• Iconic Villas & Gardens
• Complete Private Tour

What's included

Itinerary

1. 1

   Como

   Pass by

   During the drive, your guide will provide historical and anecdotal information along the way

2. 2

   Villa Del Balbianello

   2h

   Villa Balbianello, perched in a breathtaking position on a promontory overlooking the lake. The late-baroque mansion, surrounded by a beautiful park, was chosen as a movie set for: Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002), Agent 007 - Casino Royale (2006).

3. 3

   Villa Carlotta

   2h

   Tremezzo is a pretty village where the Italian writer Mario Soldati with the help of Carlo Ponti and Alberto Lattuada, two famous Italian directors, wrote the script for "Piccolo mondo antico" (1941), based on the famous novel by Antonio Fogazzaro (1895 ). Guided tour of Villa Carlotta, an eighteenth-century residence commissioned by the Marquis Clerici, where a collection of neoclassical works of art (Antonio Canova, Bertel Thorvaldsen and Francesco Hayez) and furniture dating back to that period are preserved. In the large botanical garden you can admire species of trees from all over the world.

Before you go

Location