The Italian summer.
Mahogany on the water, breakfast on a balcony above the lake, and a coast that has looked the same for a century.
Mahogany on the water, breakfast on a balcony above the lake, and a coast that has looked the same for a century.
1873Villa d'Este becomes a hotel
Villa d'Este was built in Cernobbio between 1565 and 1570 as a summer house for Cardinal Tolomeo Gallio, and it has been a hotel since 1873. Every spring its gardens hold the Concorso d'Eleganza. Across the lake, Villa del Balbianello stands on the tip of the Dosso d'Avedo peninsula at Lenno. Cardinal Angelo Maria Durini made it a villa in 1787, and it has belonged to the FAI since 1988. Its terraces appear in A Month by the Lake and in Casino Royale. Lake Como is on the board.
1842Pietro Riva opens his yard in Sarnico
Pietro Riva opened his boatyard in Sarnico, on Lake Iseo, in 1842. The Aquarama, the varnished mahogany runabout that became the boat of the Riviera, was launched in 1962. Riva has been part of the Ferretti Group since 2000, and still builds in Sarnico.
1922The Enchanted April, written at Portofino
Portofino had 379 residents at the end of 2021, and a harbor that fills with yachts every summer. Castello Brown, the 16th century fort above it, is where Elizabeth von Arnim stayed before writing The Enchanted April, published in 1922.
On Capri, the evening begins in the Piazzetta, and the Faraglioni, 3 sea stacks off the southeast coast, are seen best from the water. Amalfi Coast faces them across the gulf.
1958Andrea Bocelli is born in Lajatico
Cypress avenues, stone farmhouses and the vineyards of Chianti and Montalcino. Tuscany is on the board, and Andrea Bocelli sings each summer in his own fields at Lajatico.
Sources. Villa d'Este · FAI, Villa del Balbianello · Riva, history · Comune di Portofino. Read October 2026. A record of places, houses and dates, published as research. Patrician.ch has no commercial relationship with any house named here.
In 1873.
The villa was built in Cernobbio, on Lake Como, between 1565 and 1570.
In Sarnico, on Lake Iseo, where Pietro Riva opened his yard in 1842.
The Aquarama was launched in 1962.
Villa del Balbianello, at Lenno.
It has belonged to the FAI since 1988.
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