Villa Pliniana

Situated in one of Europe’s most premier locations, Villa Pliniana provides an exquisite setting for your special occasion. With the glistening waters of Lake Como as your backdrop, Villa Pliniana poses as one of the most luxurious wedding venues in Italy. Lake Como wedding venues have been widely considered to be among the best in the world. The amazing scenery and unbelievable balance of water and forest provide backgrounds for professional and amateur photographers alike. The Villa is comprised of individual buildings, each boasting breathtaking, classical architecture, which complements the elegance and beauty of Lake Como. The name “Pliniana” is inspired to the famous naturalists native of Como, Plinio the Elder and Plinio the Younger, whom, first described the spring and its peculiar intermittence in the first century A.D.. Through time other distinguished scientists, including Leonardo Da Vinci and Benedetto Giovio, studied the spring as well. Many famous guests over the years visited the Pliniana: among them the poet Percy Shelley, who left a wonderful description of the villa, Gioacchino Rossini who composed Tancredi in the villa itself , Napoleon whom “is said” to have played on the still existing billiard, Antonio Fogazzaro who adopted the villa as the set of his novel Malombra, later transformed by Mario Soldati into an homonymous movie in 1942 set in the villa itself. The villa has been visited by many famous writers (Byron, Foscolo, Berchet, Stendhal) musicians (Liszt and Bellini), scientists (Volta, Spallanzani and Ghezzi) and monarchs Joseph II of Austria and Margherita of Savoy. After a long and meticulous restoration work, today the villa has been returned to its former splendor.