Botanical Garden

Tremezzina (Como), Villa Carlotta Museum and Botanical Garden. The villa, overlooking the shores of Lake Como, was built at the end of the 17th century by the Marquis Clerici of Milan. In 1801 the property passed to Giovanni Battista Sommariva, at that time president of the Government Committee of the Cisalpine Republic (1797-1802) established by Napoleon Bonaparte in northern Italy. Arboreal rhododendron forest.