Villa Carlotta is one of the most beautiful villas in the area, built at the end of the 17th century by Giorgio Clerici, thanks to the owners’ interest for art and botanics the villa attained the summit of its splendour only in the next centuries.

The villa became a temple with works of Canova, Thorvaldsen, Hayez and Appiani, while the garden represent a scenery with almost 500 species of plants and flowers, with a stairway, balustrades, fountains and the cascade of the dwarfs.

Other villas are situated in the little village of Bolvedro: Villa La Quiete, dated back to the beginning of the 18th century, composed by a central body on three floors and two lateral lower wings, with baroque ornaments. There is another villa non far from here: Villa La Carlia, built at the end of the 17th century with simple lines and an elegant park.

You can visit always in Bolvedro the church of San Lorenzo, built in two moments, in 1775-76 and at the end of 1800, with a neoroman apse and a neogothic façade and frescoes by Tagliaferri inside. Moving towards Rogaro, you can visit the baroque church that preserves the black Virgin Mary. This sculpture, dated back to the 17th century, is a copy of the original Virgin Mary of Einsiedeln.

Not far from the village centre you can see the ruins of the medieval tower that belonged to the defensive structure of the Comacina Island. On the plain instead some scenes of the second episode of Star Wars were shot.

In the surroundings you can organize walks on the mountains. Also Lenno and the beautiful Villa Balbianello (heritage of FAI), the archaeological finds of Comacina Island and Ossuccio with the Sanctuario della Vergine del Soccorso (Sanctuary of the Blessed Virgin of Rescue).