::Glicine House, Lake Como

Griante (located near Menaggio and Tremezzo) is one of the most well known towns on Lake Como and since the end of the 18th century has been one of British Tourists favourite holiday resorts.

Its beautiful sumptuous villas have hosted many important visitors over the centuries like Giuseppe Verdi ,the British queen Victoria and the German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer.

The town is divided in two parts Cadenabbia on the lake and above the historic centre of Griante which you can reach along a scenic flight of cobble stone steps.

Here , you can find two beautiful and just renovated holiday apartments:
Azalea House and Glicine House, where will be able spend your holidays in the silence and in the sounds of the nature.

Stendhal wrote in the “ La Chartreuse de Parma “, description of Griante . (http://www.cadenabbiadigriante.com )

….”Everything is noble and delicate, everything speaks of love, nothing reminds the ugliness of civilisation. The villages placed halfway up the hills are sheltered by trees, and above the tops of the trees rises the fine architecture of their slender bell towers.

If, from time to time, some small fields, fifty yard wide, interrupt the "bouquets" of chestnut and cherry wild trees, the satisfied eye sees the plants growing happier and more vigorous then anywhere else.

Beyond these hills, which host some hermitages where everyone would like to live, the enchanted eyes discover the picks of the Alps, always covered with snow, and their majestic austerity reminds the strife of life, and this increases the voluptuousness of the present hour.

The imagination is moved by the far away twinkling of a bell, coming from some small village hidden under the trees; and the sounds brought by the water that sweeten them, assume the colour of soft melancholy and meekness that seems to tell men:" life passes by quickly, do not be reluctant towards the happiness that comes to you, reach out and enjoy it."

The language of these enchanting places, that have no equal in the world, gave back to the Countess' heart the feelings of when she was sixteen.”

And E. W. LongFellow wrote in the summer 1872:

….” I ask myself is this a dream?
Will it all vanish into air?
Is there a land of such supreme
And perfect beauty anywhere?”…

….” A place of the enchantment ,where nature and art fill eyes and minds
where look at yourself in the lake allows to catapult him in the history

be true or fictionalized …”

Lake Como, WELCOME YOU. Have a nice trip.

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