Bellagio - Serbelloni villa has one ancient history, already of property of Sfondrati family in 1533, it passed of property to conte Alessandro Serbelloni was dedicated spirit and body for him.

The external aspect, wide but of simple lines, it was not modified; the inside accurately was decorated, from the ceilings to time and cassettoni, to the pictures and objects of Serbelloni duca.

However more than of the villa one was interested of the immense park, spending exorbitant figures, it made to construct carrozzabili tracks, tree-lined avenues, paths for an extension of approximately 18 KM.

Then duca was died to Bellagio, in 1826, the villa passed at his sons, Giovan Battista and Ferdinand, it fell in progressive disuse after the passing of this last and eredi, to leave from the 1870 the property to Antonio Mella affittarono who of it made one dependency of the Hotel de the Great Bretagne; finally in 1907 they will sell it to a Swiss socità that of it made the Serbelloni Hotel.
The hotel came bought from prince Ella Walker that left it foundation in 1959 in inheritance the Rockefeller.
Today the villa is used after place of stay and encounter for students.
Numerous they were the illustrious hosts who sojourn in the villa, we can remember when still it was propietà of the Sfonderati:Emperor Massimiliano I, Leonardo da Vinci, Lodovico il moro, La dama bianca Strains, Borromeo Cardinal,
Pellico, Moroncelli, FrancescoI Emperor, Queen Victoria, kaiser Guglielmo, Umberto I; author like the Manzoni, Large, Pindemonte.