Lake Como Botanical Garden

Villa Monastero and its botanical garden
A path is silhouetted in the middle of the garden of Villa Monastero, flanked by secular trees, exotic and evergreen plants. If you are lucky to visit the garden on spring, the explosion of the flowers' colours, gladdens the heart and strucks with its thousand natural wonders.
Villa Monastero is, as it says the same name, an ancient monastery and patrician villa. The structure of the villa is elegant with baroque and moresque elements. The villa has got a botanical garden, one of the main attraction of the villa on lake Como.
Also in the botanical garden there are architectonic ornamental elements, which increase its beauty and fascination.

Trees of the botanical garden
The botanical garden just appears on the lake Como waters and the water element gives to the botanical garden a more magic appearance.
The botanical garden in lake Como preserves a lot of interesting and beautiful trees: cedars of Lebanon, evergreen hedges, African palms, American palms, agaves, yuccas, dragon-trees, citrus trees and oleanders. For all the visitors of lake Como who have got the opportunity to visit Varenna, the botanical garden of Villa Monastero is an heaven angle you cannot miss where you can find again the internal calm and serenity in contact with nature.