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Villa Monastero is today, on the shores of Lake Como, one of the most interesting examples of eclectic style residence in which the interventions of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century have added functional and decorative elements without destroying the traces of events of the past in order to get a villa with garden of great impact and symbolic value.
Villa Monastero was inspired by the continuing restructuring of the female Cistercian monastery of Santa Maria, whose first documentary mention goes back to some 1208. E 'probable that his foundation is connected with the religious settlements of the opposite shore of the lake: the monastery of SS. Faustino and Giovita Comacina Island, from which the refugees of 1169.
 In 1566, following a decision of Archbishop Carlo Borromeo, the last six sisters still living in Varenna were transferred to a Cistercian monastery in Lecco. In 1569, therefore, the monastic buildings were sold to Paul Mornico.
The oldest church still the general, coincident with the Fermi classroom. The only survival of the decorations is a small Pieta frescoes of popular taste and the late Gothic period, included in the hole of a window. Ancon The Renaissance, which was on the high altar, is now preserved in the left side of the chapel the parish church of S. George.
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