The Pathways

I Giardini Di Villa Melzi d'Eril

The Stories and Hidden Treasures of the Gardens

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Botanical Endowment

The Garden was conceived in the early 1800s, along with the Villa, as an artistic-botanical masterpiece seamlessly blending the lake and mountains into a single, continuous landscape. It’s an “English-style” garden infused with Italian elegance in its clean, minimal aesthetic. In later eras, the Romantic-era fascination with the exotic introduced botanical and landscape elements from every continent, giving us one of the most captivating gardens in Italy.

Sculptures and Architecture

The architecture and artworks of Villa Melzi—its Garden and its Museum—represent a heritage as precious as it is unique. Intimate and family-oriented, tied to the Melzi d’Eril dynasty, the renewed Museum recounts some of the most significant events in Italian and European history, spanning art, culture, and politics from the Napoleonic era to Italian Unification, from Neoclassicism to Romanticism.

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The Historic Camellias of the Gardens of Villa Melzi d’Eri

The refined taste for the exotic that characterizes the Gardens of Villa Melzi finds its most graceful expression in the numerous species of historic camellias visible throughout the park. A flower symbolic of Eastern culture—where it heralds spring and the renewal of life, and is seen as a source of healing—camellias became icons of European Romanticism. Every year from February to April, they fill the Villa and its Garden with vibrant colors.

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