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[Villa Monastero] [Inside] [The Garden]

The park constitutes more attractive than Monastero Villa. A true botanical garden that shows oneself along the side orients them of the Lake Como.

Of particular interest they are the species arboreal exotic scattered for all the garden, that they demonstrate also the happy climatic situation of Varenna.
We can find Africans and Americans Palms, agaves, yucche, dragon trees, citruses and oleandri, beyond that to some botanical rarities which the Armed Erythea, palm to great silver leaves to fan shape.
Also the architectonic elements that furnish the park answer to the same criterion of variety: balustrades, statues, temple, are gone, true from sink and the Fontanas, until the kaffee- haus to the extreme limit towards Fiumelatte, recall the styles from the baroque to the classic until the moresco.
Styles and elements of great fascination: vialetti and perrons are integrated perfectly with the surrounding territory and the background of the Lake Como.
In some cases, I' constructed element it seems to only serve to indicate perspective landscaped, like the tortili columns on the balustrade to lake. In the furnishings of the garden the greater work, scultoreo group and piece pregio of the Clemenza di Tito of the neoclassico artist John Battista Comolli, transported here from Walter Kees on ending of the 1800's.
The park of Monastero Villa covers therefore a remarkable interest is for the historical value, is for the species wealth vegetables, is because constitutes an optimal reason of relax for the visitors.