Villa Albertini

Villa Albertini is located along the road that leads to Punta San Vigilio, directly on the shores of Lake Garda, was commissioned by the Veronese family of Becelli, feudal lords of Costermano during the second half of the sixteenth century.

Villa Albertini, with its five red towers and the large park characterizes the entire Gulf of Garda. A wide avenue of wall-pruned magnolias rises from the gate towards the villa, which is neoclassical in the central part, underlined by a triangular tympanum, romantic in the four side towers and in the central one above it, all crowned with Ghibelline merlons. The current appearance replaces the sixteenth-century house of the Becelli family, from which it acquired the accounts of the Albertini of Prato in the early twentieth century. The formal garden that surrounds the villa is transformed into an extraordinary landscape park that covers the entire hill behind, designer the Verona Francesco Ronzani. Secular specimens of magnolias, cypresses, Italian pines, redwoods, acacias and palm trees with laurels, orange and lemon enrich the Mediterranean flora; greenhouses, chalets, belvedere towers, fountains and waterfalls powered by a small lake located in the upper part enliven the park. The first-nineteenth-century atmosphere of the rooms of the house was altered, where guests were Carlo Alberto di Savoia, who received the Lombard deputation on 10 June 1848, which brought him the annexation to Piedmont, the Duke of Genoa and Maximilian of Bavaria.

Historical sources: Francesco Monicelli