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Cernobbio's be distant little steps from Como, to the feet of the Bisbino mount, m. 1328, famous is a tourist center.

Since the first decades of this Cernobbio century it constituted one of the predelights places of holiday for facoltose from Milan families comasche and.
It testifies the great number of villas that adorns the city.

Today Cernobbio has adapted to the requirements of a mass tourism creating one efficente receptive organization, protect the green, offering to the visitors a beautiful lake front I adorn of graceful Fontana.

Between the churches the primitiva Parrochiale dedicated to S. Vincenzo, tightened between the colorful alleys of the more ancient quarter of the village.

Most prestigious of the villas it is without doubt villa of Este, today transformed in the Grand Hotel Villa of Este.

The first construction was erected in 1589 to cardinal Tolomeo Gallio, on the plans of famous Travelling architect Tibaldi.
It was called the villa of the Garrovo, from the name of the torrent that here flow in lake Como.

The complex came acquired, in 1814, from the prince of Wales, that thinking descendant from the illustrious family of Este, call the villa with this name.