Balbianello Villa – Official Rental Fees 2012

Many of you write us to ask further information on Villa del Balbianello rental.
For this reason we would love to give you more information on our blog that we hope could be useful.
As mentioned Villa del Balbianello is a very exclusive and unique venue, for this reason rental fee is related to the luxury and exclusivity of the location itself.

Dear Couples,
Many of you write us asking further information about Villa del Balbianello rental. For this reason we would love to give you more information on our blog that we hope could be useful.

Italian Lakes Wedding Team now is happy to provide you the official rates of Balbianello Villa.
We tried to be the most exhaustive we could but please feel free to contact us if you find something not clear or if you may need additional details.

Balbianello is one of the most beautiful and unspoiled Villas of the area reachable by boat thus giving your guests the opportunity of living a “different” experience.
FAI (Fondo Ambiente Italiano – Italian Environment Fund) preserves the most important Italian monumental Villas and gardens and it manages Villa del Balbianello too. It has agreed us the permission to use the Villa for our events.

We hope you will appreciate the uniqueness of this amazing setting and stunning view as much as we do!
The breath-taking ceremony can be celebrated outdoor overlooking the lake. At Villa del Balbianello can be performed civil legally blessing ceremonies from Monday to Saturday (never on Sunday) Villa del Balbianello offers the opportunity of using the venue for:

• Only the ceremony (max 2 hours staying).
• Ceremony + aperitif / cocktail (max 3 hours staying).
• Ceremony + complete reception (max 6 hours staying) with option of extending the time till 2am at an extra fee charge.

Depending on the guests number, ceremony can be celebrated on the Terrace (small groups) or under the Loggia (bigger groups).
For groups smaller than 50 guests, the ceremony can be celebrated also while the Villa is still open to tourists (this option is cheaper than having the Villa in exclusive). This means in the afternoon, earlier than 6pm.
For groups of 50 persons and over, ceremonies are only allowed when the Villa is closed to public visitors (this has a higher cost) and therefore with the Villa in exclusive.

The Villa is available at exclusive use:
• On Monday and Wednesday at any time starting from early afternoon (these are Balbianello closing days).
• Every day after 6pm (on Sunday only symbolic ceremonies).

The rental fees of Villa del Balbianello depend on the guests’ number attending the wedding / event.

PRICE LIST 2011

CEREMONY (symbolic or civil) – (only rental fee – max 2 hours staying):
• Up to 20 guests Euros 1.200 + 21% vat with the Villa still open to visitors, € 1.700 + 21% vat on Monday and Wednesday with Villa closed (after 6pm), Euros 4000 + 21% vat on Saturday.
• 21 to 50 guests Euros 2.200 + 21% vat with the Villa still open to visitors a€ 3.200 + 21% vat on Monday and Wednesday with Villa closed (after 6pm), Euros 4000 + 21% vat on Saturday.
• Over 50 guests always Euros 4.300 + 21% vat but only with the Villa available after 6pm or also earlier only on Monday and Wednesday.

CEREMONY + APERITIF / COCKTAIL – (only rental fee – max 3 hours staying):
• Up to 20 guests Euros 1.400 + 21% vat with the Villa still open to visitors and € 2.200 + 21% vat with Villa closed (after 6pm), Euros 4000 + 21% vat on Saturday.
• 21 to 50 guests Euros 2.400 + 21% vat with the Villa still open to visitors and € 3.700 + 21% vat with Villa closed (after 6pm), Euros 4000 + 21% vat on Saturday.
• 51 to 100 guests Euros 5200 + 21% vat.
• Over 100 guests Euros 52 + 21% vat per person.

CEREMONY + RECEPTION – (only rental fee – max 6 hours staying):
• Up to 20 guests Euros 4.000 + 21% vat
• Up to 40 guests Euros 6.000 + 21% vat
• From 41 to 70 guests Euros 7.000 + 21% vat
• From 71 to 80 guests Euros 8.000 + 21% vat
• From 81 to 100 guests Euros 10.000 + 21% vat
• From 100 to 150 guests and over Euros 100 + 21% vat per person

For civil ceremonies please consider the following extra costs:
• Town Hall fees from 1.200 Euros).
• Interpreter fee (100 / 150 Euros + 21% vat).
• Chairs (10 Euros + 21% vat each).

For symbolic ceremonies please consider the following extra costs:
• Celebrant fee (from 400 up to 700 Euros + 21% vat).
• Chairs (10 Euros + 21% vat each).

The Villa is available until maximum Midnight – this is only if you have here both ceremony + reception – but can be available until 2am paying an extra fee of Euros 2.000 + 21% vat.

The menus are from 170 / 200 + 21% vat per person, this cost is on top to all the other fees above mentioned (please consider it just as an indication since the catering quote depends on many different factors such as guests number, season, day of the week etc…).

IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Villa del Balbianello has only two small indoor rooms (Library and Cartographer room) available in case of bad weather or particular requests. These rooms are one opposite to the other, at the two sides of the Loggia.

The use of these 2 rooms is subject to the following costs:
• The two rooms are both available only on Monday and Wednesday.
• During the other days it’s only available one or the other at your choice.

The costs are:
• The costs are upon request.
• Dinner under the Loggia (which is the only roof covered place of the Villa) is only allowed for groups of maximum 45 guests.
  For groups of max 70 guests this is only accepted on Monday and Wednesday.
  Also with small groups, marquee is necessary to create the ceremony space and dancing space repaired from rain.
  Over 45 guests / or 70 guests the dinner is served in the Gardens where it’s mandatory to put a marquee with floor.
• The cost of the marquee goes from 12.000 Euros (for small groups) up to Euros 35.000 + 21% vat.

• Balbianello doesn’t offer any type of accommodations.
• Balbianello is open only from mid March to mid November
• Balbianello is only reachable by boat, therefore there are extra costs for the transfers to and from the Villa.
  We would like to suggest another opportunity too.

We can also advise to use this wonderful spot of Lake Como as an amazing set for your wedding pictures. In this case we could arrange for you the ceremony and reception somewhere else on the lake and then let you reach Villa del Balbianello afterward with a boat tour for your wedding pictures. This will involve a smaller budget but will let you enjoy the beauty of Villa del Balbianello anyway.

• Cost for photography set for photographer and bride and groom to the villa is 100 euro.

You can also decide to involve your guests in this tour letting appreciate the beauty of Villa del Balbianello too. Rate will be only entrance ticket.

Only Gardens:
• ADULTS: € 6,00
• CHILDREN (4-12 YEARS): € 3,00

Gardens + Villa:
Visit with guide mandatory, groups of max 15 persons each turn, duration of 60 minutes:
• ADULTS: € 12,00
• CHILDREN (4-12 YEARS): € 7,00

We hope that our information on Official Costs of Villa del Balbianello may be useful.
In case you may need furhther information or details please do not hesitate to contact us we will be pleased to help.

Italian Lakes Wedding Team is made up of several professional wedding planners and floral designers with a long experience on Italian Lakes locations.
The Team knows the territory in every single detail and will be able to follow you on every important choice you will take.
Our coordinators are based locally in the areas we serve so whether you decide for a wedding in Rome or Bracciano, a wedding in Como or Stresa, or a Wedding on lake Garda or Lake Orta, we will grant the same level of service.
Our Team will be able to provide you every kind of supplier, florist, photographers, musicians, designers celebrants, witnesses and help as far as your documents are concerned, and anything you may think of.
Italian Lakes Wedding Team will literally pamper you!

For any information about wedding on Lake Como please CONTACT US.

Our long-time followers can notice that the CENTRO DANNEMANN is the very first wedding location outside Italy, which has a relevant position in our website.

Why this choice? Basically because most of the Lake Maggiore is located in Italy, but the very northern part is situated in the most southern canton of Switzerland – named Ticino: this is the reason why we love to consider Lake Maggiore as a big and single territory without any border, an extraordinary region made of stunning scenarios, lovely villages, rich in romance and perfect for a dreamy wedding.

Exactly here in Brissago the CENTRO DANNEMANN is situated, a unique wedding venue located directly at Lake Maggiore in a still producing cigar manufactory, which connects a traditional art typical of this place to the nowadays modernity.

In particular the canton Ticino – the Italian Part of Switzerland – is characterized by a sub-tropical climate with long summers, and by charming places like Locarno, Bellinzona, Ascona and Brissago.

The CENTRO DANNEMANN disposes of a romantic grotto that, combined with the large halls directly at the lake, can host from 20 to over 400 guests.

The very strong point of the CENTRO DANNEMANN in Brissago are the fabulous gardens overlooking the lake: here, surrounded by luxuriant palm-trees, you can organize your wedding party in an informal but elegant atmosphere.

We are going to speak about the CENTRO DANNEMANN very soon again to discover what this wonderful location can offer to a bride and a groom for a perfect wedding on Lake Maggiore.

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Along Brenta River, not far from Venice, ancient noble Venetian families built outstanding abodes to spend their holidays, that could reflect their wealth and power.

Ideal extension of Venice onto the mainland, the ancient course of river Brenta lived from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century a golden age that made the area a favorite place of vacation of the rich Venetian nobles.

Along the river there are many villas designed by masters of Italian art. Along the centuries these places has been visited by artists, popes, kings, men of culture, envied for their beauty, perceived as country houses in which to celebrate the rite of procession on water, of sumptuous dinners, of parties lasted until dawn.
In Riviera del Brenta you can appreciate today blooming gardens of noble villas, water reflections intercepted by the statues, the gardens lapped by the current.

One of these wonderful villas was the perfect frame for Max and Valentina’s wedding.
17th century architectural complex called Villa Foscarini-Rossi hosted this special event we would love to tell you about today.

Valentina and Max opted for a religious ceremony in a church not far from the villa.
Parents, relatives and many friends were all waiting for the bride to come!
Church of Sanctuary of Madonna in Borbiago bride and groom chose, was adorned with beautiful white roses to keep theme Valentina wanted: very charming and romantic!

During the ceremony, the smooth sound of harp and violin made the atmosphere even more magical.

Outside the Church all guests waited for newly weds for the traditional rice and red rose petals throwing which is a very good wish of good luck in Italy. Have a look to the fancy baskets and wraps containing rice cones for throwing…a sweet idea the bride had for her guests!

About six o’clock in the evening, Valentina and Max, after a lovely boat tour reached by boat private pier of villa for their reception.

Under the beautiful sun of July, guests had their delicious and traditional Veneto aperitif in the Italian garden and wonderful portico.

The evening continued inside, in the frescoed hall.
While music accompanied the event, the wealth of paintings and golden light floods in through the old windows overlooking the garden was the setting for a refined dinner based on typical dishes of the Venetian tradition reinterpreted with sage creativity.

Here’s the end of this wonderful day … back outside, illuminated by soft light of candles and chandeliers always ravished by fresh flowers the cutting of the cake was another suggestive moment of this elegant reception.

Talking about this day Valentina and Max said:

It was not a wedding… it was “the wedding” … the most exciting moment for a couple … but thanks to the meticulous and fantastic organization of “our “wedding planner … everything was almost perfect. Thank you for making possible an idea into a real dream.

Angela and Katiuscia both work on Veneto region and Lake Garda. They will take you to discover traditions, savors and colors of Veneto region, not only on Lake Garda!

They can help and support you for a dream wedding on other wonderful locations such as Venice, Verona and Veneto gorgeous countryside where you could taste some of best wines of Italy.

For any information about wedding on Lake Garda, Venice, Verona and Veneto countryside please contact Angela and Katiuscia.

We already told you about Isola Bella and its great Italian gardens. They are the best especially in Spring time with an amazing explosion of colored flowers: camellias, rhododendrons, magnolias, wisterias, azaleas and during the year they never stop blooming.

Cristina and Simone wanted for their wedding pictures this special heaven on earth.
A lovely and warm Spring day of April was the perfect frame for their special event.

Weather on Borromeo Islands and on Lakes area is usually characterized by a period of rain that goes from 3 to 5 weeks in Spring. It vary according the year.
This year March had some rain while April was really good just like Cristina and Simone’s day.

Cristina and Simone chose the skills and experience of Maurizio Paracchini of Foto Studio 2000. Maurizio Paracchini is a very good professional, he attended many workshops of wedding, portrait and industrial photography with the most important photographers in Italy.
He knows how to use color, black and white, traditional tequiniques and digital fantasy.

Borromeo Palace and its gardens were built during 1600 to look like a big floating vessel.
The style of the garden reflects the classical Baroque taste of the Italian Gardens.
Nature is considered a scenography for a show always changing.

Gardens are enriched with exotic plants, allegoric or mythological statues, obelisks and fountains, floating plants, strangely shaped trees, terraces with columns and other statues or obelisks.
Isola Bella is also populated by wonderful white peacocks, they are free in the garden and you could really see them!

Isola Bella is a magic and amazing place.
It is a unique destination for all bride and groom who want an unbelievable frame for their wedding pictures, just like Cristina and Simone.

For more information for a wedding on Isola Bella and Borromeo Archipelagos please contact Italian Lakes Wedding Team.

For any information about wedding on Lake Maggiore please CONTACT the Lake Maggiore Wedding planners team.

Lake Maggiore Wedding team is made up of several professional wedding planners and floral designers with a long experience on Lake Maggiore locations.
The Team knows the territory in every single detail and will be able to follow you on every important choice you will take.

LMW planners team is dedicated to providing the very best to our couples. Weddings are an emotional time. Let a wedding coordinator help relieve the stress of the planning and allow you to enjoy the day.

First comes love… then comes planning!

This wonderful mansion is located on the hills South Lake Maggiore, only 10 minutes drive from pretty town of Arona in a unique country environment. It is a green and relaxing oasis, the perfect setting for your special day!

One of the main feature of Abbazia di Santo Spirito – Villa Giannone is that it is the only venue in Piemonte and Lombardy region that has a private chapel inside the venue itself. The romantic chapel can host your legal religious ceremony but the ceremony can be held also outdoors in the lovely garden.
Your reception can be hosted in the garden too or inside the ancient armory with arches that can seat up to 180 guests.

And let’s not forget how close the Abbazia is to Milano Malpensa airport!

Once you go inside the Abbazia you will breath the atmosphere of ancient times. The building was edified in mid 1200 by Humiliated Monks who used to farm and wool weaving.

At that time the tower was built and this is the real symbol of the Abbazia. In 1200 too was also built the pretty little private church where bride and groom can celebrate their evocative and romantic wedding.

During centuries Abbazia had several owners that changed this convent in a luxury court with horses and dogs for hunting.
At the end of 1700 Abbazia was acquired by Giannone family who is still the actual owner. The Abbazia now is a wonderful venue for elegant country weddings.

Abbazia di Santo Spirito – Villa Giannone is surrounded by a wide park with secular trees and blooming areas. The venue faces a lawn where you could celebrate your outdoor religious ceremony in the nature, such an enchanting atmosphere!

At the end of the park there is a rustic portico with stone columns with scented jasmines on. It could be the perfect place for your buffet aperitif. Over here you can also arrange lovely garden furniture or even tables and chars for your outdoor wedding meal.

From the park you can reach the reception room directly.
It can host up to 180 guests and it is embellished with frescos and brick arches. The room appears like an ancient armory a real masterpiece of architecture.

And it is not over! Abbazia has other surprises for you: the Corte Antica. It is a special area of the venue which is specially reserved to bride and groom and their wedding pictures. Corte Antica is a lovely portico with a pretty and stylish Italian garden enriched by a roses pergola, lemon trees and other secular trees.

And if you want more why don’t go on Lake Maggiore, in Arona, Stresa or reaching Borromeo Island by boat? It could be another amazing occasion to take some more stunning wedding pictures.

Abbazia di Santo Spirito will be the perfect venue you’ve always dreamt of!

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Balbianello Villa – Official Rental Fees 2011

Many of you write us to ask further information on Villa del Balbianello rental.
For this reason we would love to give you more information on our blog that we hope could be useful.
As mentioned Villa del Balbianello is a very exclusive and unique venue, for this reason rental fee is related to the luxury and exclusivity of the location itself.
Click here to find official rental fee that Villa del Balbianello property gave us for 2011

Nadia and Michel: the Big Day has arrived!
First of all let us introduce you our bride and groom: Nadia and Michel both come from Germany. The groom has Italian heritage. His relatives came from Puglia Region in Southern Italy which is famous for its splendid sea.
Nadia and Michel always loved Lake Como. They visited it many times and they chose it as their wedding destination.
In order make their love dream come true they chosed a special romantic and exclusive venue. Choosing Villa del Balbianello has been more than natural, considering also how famous it is!

At their arrival Nadia and Micheal had a beautiful sunny day and they enjoyed a relaxing boat trip on Lake Como.
The day of their wedding started with a cloudy and rainy sky. Luckily, clouds left the space to the sun, creating a landscape even more evocative and unreal.
Micheal and guests’ arrival by motorboat to Villa del Balbianello, stood out in all its splendor, with the 2 gracious bell towers of the ancient Saint John Convent which stretched skywards in a myriad of clouds and shades.

Isn’t it stunning? Just look to images of the Villa seen from the Lake! The authors are again Estella & Diego of Photo27 who followed the 3 days event: boat trip on the Lake the first day, wedding to Villa del Balbianello and last but not least a beach party in Lenno on the third day, right after the wedding.

And here arrives Nadia, on board of a luxurious white motorboat. The clouds went away in the meanwhile, leaving the space to a clear sunny day…
It almost seemed that the planners arranged the sun coming too!

During the weddings, access to Villa del Balbianello, is exclusively allowed from the Lake. You are welcome by the motto “Fay ce que voudras” (do what you want) which the Cardinal Durini wanted to be engraved on the small pier.
When at the end of the of the eighteenth Century he took care of the renewal of the Villa to transforming it in the ‘place of the delights’.
From the little pier, a steep stair leads to the gardens and then to the Villa, which is located a little higher.

What a fantastic scenery! Not by chance this Villa was chosen in the past as cinematographic set for famous movies such as 007 Casino Royale and Star Wars II – Attack of the Clones.

Have a look at the video taken from Star Wars, with the romantic scene of the first kiss between Padme and Anakin filmed Villa del Balbianello Terrace.

Going back to Nadia and Michel wedding…we need remark how much bride and groom wanted to give an original touch, choosing as event dress code total white.
Majority of guests wore white both women and men.

Nadia was given away by his brother Matthew, waiting for her at the beautiful Loggia of the Villa, to lead her the Map Room, where a religious blessing took place.

Villa del Balbianello gardens have a sober and refined elegance. Indoor spaces are richly furnished with French and English furniture, oriental rugs, tapestries and big chandeliers. The Map Room has a complete collection of maps together with more than 4000 books telling experiences of travels made all around the world.
After the ceremony all guests went to the cocktail arranged on the big Loggia.
They all enjoyed a spectacular view on the Lake Como, just think about sipping a drink in such a special location!

Dinner was served in the elegant Pavillion of the villa on the Lake.

At night, atmosphere at Villa del Balbianello became even more romantic and evocative!

Reception party ended with a grand fireworks show, with a unique final: an enormous sparkling heart. What a show!

A wedding such as Nadia and Michel’s one needs a long preparation and a detailed care on any details.

Newlyweds lived their planning in total relax thanks to their wedding planners’ team who assisted and supported them in each decision. The result was a magic and perfect event, a real stress-free wedding at Villa del Balbianello!

For any information about wedding to Villa del Balbianello, contact us or leave a post in the proper field below.
In alternative you can write at the following address: info@villabalbianello.com.

Villa Decio is in Lortallo, an ancient village situated between Miasino and Ameno, near the Monastery of Monte Mesma.

Lortallo is a little hidden gem of Lake Orta, outside the traditional tourist routes: Lortallo was once a place of some importance, that it had a representative in the General Council of the Riviera di San Giulio and staying separate city until the early nineteenth century.

Here, more than any other place, time seems to stand still: in a walk in the quiet cobbled streets you can meets the Tower of Baldizzone (XIII century) and a group of medieval houses in the shadow of a massive block of villas arranged bunk and facing a precipice on Lake Orta.

In this exclusive environment Villa Decio is, a nineteenth century residence adorned with 3 terraced gardens, fully exposed towards the lake.

Inside the Villa Decio there are 3 rooms furnished with antiques, with a total capacity of 90 people. If you prefer to arrange your wedding party in the garden, the terrace at the top level is equipped with a fixed wrought iron framework which can accommodate up to 120 people.

The second level, embellished with an Italian garden, is particularly suitable for a cocktail buffet.

The lowest level of the garden is instead available for guests to set up a small living room from which to view the fantastic scenery in complete relax.

The highlight of Villa Decio is in fact its exceptional panoramic position. A breathtaking view that sweeps across Lake Orta, the island of San Giulio, Pella, Madonna del Sasso and the perennially snow-capped summit of Mount Rosa.

While the beauty of a painting shines thanks to the right place, Villa Decio could not enjoy a better context to assert its own characteristics: authenticity, exclusivity and breathtaking scenery.

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On Italian Country Wedding web site you will discover a multitude of choices for unique ceremony and reception, an intimate elopement, sites, small town hospitality, and a variety of activities for you and your guests in the Italian countryside
Surfing on Italian Country Wedding you will undiscovered and unspoiled places to create the perfect setting for a special and real country wedding: gardens, vineyards, country villas, traditional Italian restaurants, agriturismos or farm houses, or even in a wonderful castle!

Italian Country Wedding is specialized in weddings across Piedmont region and Langhe and Monferrato country side areas….just have a look at it we are sure you will be amazed by the charm of countryside!

The Grand Hotel Majestic is located in Pallanza, which faces the Island of St. Giovanni, the thirty-year summer residence of Arturo Toscanini. It is a fascinatingly beautiful Belle Epoque hotel distinguished by its incomparable architectural dignity, grand frescoed rooms and extensive lakeside English garden. Its construction became the impetus for the city’s booming tourism in 1870.

The optimal motivating attraction for nobles and the elite to choose to construct their luxurious villas in this region was primarily the agreeable situation amongst the exceptional panoramic peacefulness of the cape complete with surrounding mountains and mild climate.

From many of the hotel’s 99 rooms and 4 suites the dreamlike view of the lake’s serenity, surrounded by the mountains and the captivating beauty of the Borromean Island’s architectural and botanic artistry, can be marveled at. On the Isola Madre and the Isola Bella, just a few minutes away from the hotel by boat, the Borromeo Dynasty buit two luxurious domiciles in the 600’s surrounded by some of the most beautiful gardens of the Lake Maggiore. Of all the gardens in the world, these gardens are surpassed in the beauty only by the magnificent botanical gardens of Villa Taranto housing 20.000 plants species, 1.000 of which had never been cultivated in Italy before. The garden is within walking distance from the Grand Hotel.

Enchanted by the aquamarine panorama of the lake, as seen from the terrace of Majestic, Eleonora Duse had her tailor fashion a dress “…in the same color as the lake”. Among an array of illustrious artists who have been accommodated in the ambience of the Grand Hotel are Grazia Deledda and the composer Claude Debussy. To name a few, the boats of the Stuarts, the Queen of Romania, the monarchs of Italy, the noble families of Germany, Indian Princes and Maharaja were docked here…In short, the personalities symbolizing “bon vivre” of the 800’s have enjoyed the splendor of the hotel.

After some decades of decline, the Grand Hotel Majestic underwent a long restoration period and was returned the dignity of its past. Its rejuvenation brings the true value of its classical style to life and gives the impression of being immersed in an atmosphere of times gone by, all the while offering its guests adequate services with attention focused on today’s comforts.

Upon entering the Grand Hotel Majestic, you are enthralled by the class and elegance of it’s reception hall, clad with original wooden floors, bronze chandeliers and art deco’ lamps designed by Florentine craftsmen.

From here you can take a look up at the rooms on four floors, visible from the interior court with white marble columns. Just a few steps ahead you can take in the panoramic view from the terrace tables in one of the lounge bars.

A succession of elegant and comfortable sitting rooms unwind along the entire façade, giving guests views through the picture windows of the terrace and porches overlooking the lake. At each of the two ends of the building are two large drawing rooms that re-evoke the fabulous ballrooms of the palaces of the past.

The marvelous view can be taken while dining at one of our two restaurants: “Il Rossini” chic and appetizing, and “La Beola” serving local a la carte specialties from the Verbano.
The Hotel has two main function rooms, The Toscanini and The Intra, which are perfect for holding meetings and banquets in a truly unique atmosphere: decorated in period style, the rooms are elegant, stylish and bright, thanks to the wide windows that overlook the porch and the lake and afford a spectacular view.

Come nice weather, one can enjoy sitting on the porch under the arcades in the garden. The recreational program of the Grand Hotel Majestic offers excursions by boat or limousine to enjoy the sun at private beaches or to practice various sports in the vicinity like sailing, golf and horseback riding.

Beauty Farm is available to the hotel guests who would like to take an invigorating and toning swim in the pool, utilize the fitness center, or benefit from a relaxing massage.

The guests at the Grand Hotel Majestic can count on high quality accommodations and facilities, thanks to the recent meticulously carried out renovations and additions, which return an air of a poetic era: the magical beauty and splendor of this elite hotel renders it refined and in harmony with the magnificent Lago Maggiore, and a place where its guests can enjoy the most relaxing and revitalizing vacations.

Bellagio lies directly on Como Lake and is crossed by a main street called via Garibaldi, which is criss-crossed by suggestive lanes which run up and down the hillside to the lake.
The most famous is called Salita Serbelloni. Here, a plaque marks the long stay of the musician Franz Liszt.
This romantic landscape it’s the perfect frame for your dreaming wedding day.
Bellagio, famous for the magnificent villas is one of the most refined location for your special event. It’s not easy to find so magical venues preserved as they were still in their maximum splendor period. And this area it’s particularly rich of villas rentable for weddings and unique occasions. The typical italian gardens of the Villas will impress your guests and the pictures of your wedding day will be simply astonishing.
After the unforgettable ceremony moment, while your guests start to refresh themselves with a delightful aperitif on a terrace, you could have the pleasure to discover fascinating corners of this ancient small town going for a brief and romantic walk, in order to relax a bit after the eternal promise.

You could stand few instants on the dock for the pleasure boats that has been rebuilt paying particular care to respecting the feel of the old dock and then take a water taxi for just fifteen minutes to admire the view of Bellagio from the water, scintillating in all his beauty.

Starting from the historic centre called Borgo it’s possible to visit seven of the 22 districts of Bellagio in around two hours, some are hidden among the trees on the mountain slopes, others enjoy a dominant, panoramic position, right up to the last one, Pescallo, which is again on the lake. It is like taking a dive into nature, history and beauty, among olive trees, flowers, antiquities and views that know no equal.

After this nice walking tour, you’ll be happy to try the exquisite bellagio’s food. The lake area has its own particular traditional cuisine, which is influenced by nearby Switzerland, by the mountain and, naturally, by the lake. One can still find genuine, old fashioned ingredients. Why don’t you think about an uncommon regional rehearsal dinner?

The touristic fame of Bellagio started in 19th century, when the Duke Melzi decided to build here his magnificent summer house.
This episode, attracted the Milanese aristocracy to the area and Bellagio became the most elegant and refined of courts.
Villas, gardens and several hotels which to this day are still the pride of the town and a major attraction for visitors, were built within a few years.
These palaces were visited and lived in by many famous names of the period, artists, politicians, royalty, intellectuals and scientists as well as various heroes of our Risorgimento.
Grand Hotel Bellagio (now Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni) inaugurated in 1872 and is still operating.
Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni it’s a stunning location to celebrate your wedding.
A place full of tradition, charme and elegance since ever.

Alessandra Fabi is the Italian Lakes Wedding’s coordinator for lake Como area. If your idea of wedding is refined, sophisticated and with a special attention to details, she’s your perfect wedding planner!
She makes each client feel unique and she treats each wedding as if it were her own.
For more information about Weddings in Bellagio Lake Como please contact us.