Palast & Festung
Villa del Balbiano
Frescoed rooms, clipped gardens, a pool—and suddenly centuries of Lake Como aristocracy are playing Aldo Gucci’s home. Ridley Scott barely needed to dress the part.
Warum der Umweg sich lohnt
A centuries-old Lake Como residence shaped by the Giovio, Gallio and Durini families. Its frescoed rooms, gardens and pool later played Aldo Gucci’s home in Ridley Scott’s House of Gucci.
Villa del Balbiano is a historic villa in Ossuccio, Lombardy, known for its frescoed rooms and beautiful gardens. It gained fame as a filming location for the movie House of Gucci.
Die Menschen hinter dieser Adresse
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Ridley Scott
Scott filmed Villa Balbiano as Aldo Gucci's Lake Como residence for House of Gucci.
Angelo Maria Durini
The cardinal acquired and enlarged the estate during the late 18th century.
Was sonst in der Nähe liegt
Die nächstgelegenen Orte, über die wir geschrieben haben, mit Luftlinie von hier.
850 m
Villa del Balbianello
A cardinal talks literature under an open loggia; generations later, an explorer brings Everest and the North Pole indoors. Then the film crews arrive. This small Lake Como peninsula has changed roles without surrendering its finest asset: the view.
3.8 km
Grand Hotel Tremezzo
Two elevators, one blazing electric sign and a lakeside town with international ambitions: when the Gandolas opened their hotel in 1910, subtlety had clearly missed the boat.
4.1 km
Villa Carlotta
Giovanni Battista Sommariva has turned an old noble residence into a showpiece of marble and paint, ready for Europe’s cultured travelers. Then comes the next twist: a Prussian princess gives the entire villa away as a wedding present.
5.2 km
Gardens of Villa Melzi
Lake water ahead, crisp neoclassical lines behind: Francesco Melzi d’Eril clearly did not think a summer retreat should look off duty. Napoleon’s vice-president commissioned the estate; then Stendhal and Franz Liszt arrived, shifting the story from politics toward Romantic inspiration.
6.3 km
Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni
One lakeside villa, two very different crowds: first a noble family on holiday, then political figures and Hollywood stars moving through its salons. Bellagio’s transformation into an international resort is wrapped up in that change of audience.
6.3 km
Villa Serbelloni and the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center
June 1963: a helicopter lands in the grounds, John F. Kennedy stops by, and Villa Serbelloni adds a presidential cameo to a biography already packed with castles, princesses, hotel guests and Nobel laureates.
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