Curiosità
Villa Oleandra
A camera lifts, a sightseer slows down, and a village of about 930 people finds itself tangled in Hollywood fame. At Villa Oleandra, Lake Como’s celebrity fantasy met the awkward reality of people actually living here.
Perché vale la deviazione
George Clooney bought this 18th-century villa in 2002, turning quiet Laglio into Hollywood shorthand for Lake Como. The attention grew so intrusive that local authorities repeatedly debated measures to restrain paparazzi and sightseers.
Villa Oleandra is an 18th-century villa in Laglio, famously owned by George Clooney. Its purchase turned the quiet village into a celebrity hotspot, attracting both fans and paparazzi.
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George Clooney
Clooney has used Villa Oleandra as his Lake Como residence since acquiring it in 2002.
Che cosa c’è nei paraggi
I luoghi raccontati più vicini, con la distanza in linea d’aria da qui.
2.5 km
Villa Pliniana
A camera rolls here in 1942: Mario Soldati is filming Malombra at the villa whose brooding atmosphere helped inspire the novel. Fiction has returned to its source.
3.7 km
Villa Passalacqua
It is 1831, and Vincenzo Bellini is staying here with La sonnambula taking shape. Long before the celebrity-hotel era, Passalacqua was already collecting formidable guests.
4.1 km
Villa Roccabruna and the Giuditta Pasta Estate
A soprano holds court by the lake while Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini, Manzoni and Stendhal pass through her orbit. Giuditta Pasta’s estate was Lake Como’s operatic salon long before it became a luxury resort.
5.0 km
Villa Fontanelle
A yellow villa waits at the water’s edge, abandoned—until Gianni Versace arrives with hundreds of oil paintings and a guest list featuring Madonna and Princess Diana. Subtle, it was not.
6.0 km
Villa d’Este
It’s 1925, and Alfred Hitchcock is filming The Pleasure Garden beside Lake Como. By then, this villa has already played a cardinal’s retreat, a queen’s residence and a grand hotel. Cinema is simply its next act.
6.6 km
Villa Erba
It is 1972, and Luchino Visconti is back in his childhood summer house with an unfinished film. Villa Erba has become an editing room—and cinema is not finished with the place yet.
Percorrilo con le storie
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