The architectures and artworks of Villa Melzi, its Garden and its Museum, constitute a heritage as precious as it is unique. With an intimate and familiar character, linked to the Melzi d’Eril dynasty, the renovated Museum shows some of the most important events of Italian and European history, of art, culture and politics, from the Napoleonic era to the Unification of Italy, from Neoclassicism to Romanticism.
Created at the beginning of the 19th century together with the Villa, the Garden is an artistic-botanical work of art that harmoniously blends between the lake and the mountains without interruption; an “English-style” garden imbued with Italian elegance in its essential and clean aesthetic. In subsequent eras, the taste for the exotic so typical of Romanticism has added botanical and landscape elements from every continent, giving us with one of the most fascinating gardens in Italy.