GRAND HOTEL VILLA SERBELLONI BELLAGIO, LAKE Fitness Center & Sporting Facilities: In the hotel: gym, squash, outdoor pool, indoor pool, tennis courts. Nearby: water skiing, sailing, canoeing, trekking, mountain biking, horse-riding. & 18-hole golf course 20 minutes away. 4 other golf courses in less than an hour's drive.

Residence l’Ulivo 13 furnished apartments, with 2 to 4 beds. Bedroom, lounge, equipped kitchenette, air conditioning, central heating, telephone, TV. Free use of pools and Fitness Centre

Business meetings 4 rooms and small lounges for group meetings. Hospitality: up to 300 people in the Royal Hall.

Location Bellagio, Distances: Milan 70 km Turin 210 km Lecco 20 km Como 30 km Florence 450 km Genoa 220 km Lugano 30 km + ferry

Connections Hydrofoil to and from Como Car ferries and boats to and from Cadenabbia / Menaggio / Varenna Coach to and from Como

Airports Milan Linate 70 km Milan Malpensa 70 km Bergamo Orio al Serio 60 km Lugano Agno (Switzerland) 40 km + ferry GRAND HOTEL VILLA SERBELLONI, BELLAGIO IN THE HEART OF LAKE COMO THE DISCREET CHARM OF AN HISTORIC HOTEL

The Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni in Bellagio is since more than a century one of the most appreciated destinations by international tourism.

The Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni was built as a private home in 1853 and turned into a luxury hotel in 1873. It is located in a privileged position in Bellagio, a small medieval town known as the "pearl of the lake” for its beauty and its position at the tip of the promontory in the centre of Lake Como. The hotel is regularly quoted by both Condé Nast Traveler and Travel & Leisure as one of the best hotels in the world. Still nowadays the Bucher family, owner of the hotel for generations, enables its guests to live the evocative atmosphere of the past, while responding to their needs and desires of current times as well. That’s why Villa Serbelloni’s guests enjoy the sensation of being hosted in an elegant hotel, while feeling at ease living an unforgettable holiday experience...

The two restaurants give guests the opportunity to choose their preferred style of food: Mistral is elegant and Michelin starred. La Goletta is an informal restaurant offering traditional food including pizza. Both are managed by Chef Ettore Bocchia. The SPA in the hotel, and the Fitness Centre, in a pavilion in the garden, are open to guests interested in wellness and gym. The hotel takes also care of its younger guests, providing them an indoor pool and a play area in the garden. GRAND HOTEL VILLA SERBELLONI Because of its beauty, the high-quality service and the magnificent inner spaces the Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni is the ideal location for holidays as well as for weddings, private parties, and top management business meetings

 AWARDS:

 Prix Villégiature for the hotel with the Best Atmosphere and Charm in Europe,

 2015 Travel & Leisure’s list of the 500 Best Hotels in the World

 Ristoranti l’Expresso Manuel Ferrari, Best Pastry Chef of the year.

 Ristoranti d’Italia Gambero Rosso “due forchette” (Two forks out of a maximum of 3) Best Front of the Hotels in a hotel.

 One Michelin star at the Mistral Restaurant every year since 2005.

The Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni belongs to Abitare La Storia, an association that gathers the most prestigious historic independent hotels (affiliated with Historic Hotels of Europe) Villa Serbelloni SPA, dedicated to wellness and beauty

For well-being, Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni offers two separate spaces for beauty and fitness. The area dedicated to beauty of Villa Serbelloni SPA offers a cozy atmosphere and a wide range of wellness programs, from single treatments to “Beauty Day” or to week-end or weekly programs.

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Inside the SPA guests may let themselves be pampered in the original Twin Cabin, ideal for relaxing and romantic couple’s treatments. Or they may enjoy Ayurvedic-inspired massages, beauty treatments and then they may relax in the Relaxation Room. Among the products regularly used, some special treatments use the Biologique Recherce top French skincare line.

The fitness area (850 square meters in an elegant pavilion in the park of the hotel) includes a gym, sauna, Turkish bath, squash court. One room is entirely dedicated to cardio fitness with Technogym equipment; another one is equipped for Pilate’s sessions. Guests can also use one tennis court and two swimming pools, one indoors and the other one outdoors with private beach in front of the lake.

GRAND HOTEL VILLA SERBELLONI TWO RESTAURANTS AND MOLECOLAR CUISINE

Mistral La Goletta

Two restaurants to appreciate the pleasure of culinary excellence.

Great passion, close attention to row materials, creativity, experimental cuisine: these are the factors which make the two restaurants managed by Ettore Bocchia a “must” address for culinary tourism lovers.

The Mistral Restaurant is the more formal, elegant, refined restaurant and it is located on the spectacular terrace overlooking the lake. Thanks to the creativity and passionate commitment of Executive Chef Ettore Bocchia, since 2005 the Mistral got 1 Michelin star. In 2013 the Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni gained another prestigious and valuable asset: Carlo Pierato, recently awarded as the best maître d’hôtel of the year by the Espresso Restaurant Guide. The Mistral offers also a tasting menu of molecular cuisine, of which Bocchia is the leading Italian expert. During the week-ends, the Mistral is open both for lunch and dinner while during the week days it is open in the evening. Every night the dinner is accompanied by live music. From Monday to Friday, Mistral can be reserved at lunch for private or corporate events.

GRAND HOTEL VILLA SERBELLONI La Goletta Restaurant: located next to the swimming pool, is characterized by a cozy and casual atmosphere inspired by the boats of the lake. The restaurant offers dishes of traditional Italian cuisine and an excellent Gastro Pizza made with natural raising agents, a creation of Chef Bocchia. La Goletta gives its guests the opportunity to have lunch whenever they want because it is open continuously from Noon to 11:00 pm.

Molecular cuisine Molecular cuisine is today the most advanced frontier of culinary research. It is a new way of cooking based on the scientific observation of what happens to the ingredients in the process of cooking, cooling and matching during food preparation. This new awareness leads to improve traditional dishes as well as discovering new cooking methods, new taste experiences and new opportunities for dietary cooking. Chef Ettore Bocchia was the first in to approach this type of research, since 2002. In his two-fold role as rigorous researcher and creative chef, he has paved the way to Italian molecular cuisine in Italy and today he is considered to be its initiator and major authority.

Prawns with guacamole ice-cream cooled by liquid nitrogen and crispy cuttle-fish ink wafer.

GRAND HOTEL VILLA SERBELLONI PARTIES AND WEDDINGS

A dream wedding in a fabulous place Among the most evocative locations in the charming and romantic town of Bellagio, the Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni stands out for its elegance and refinement. Surrounded by a spectacular landscape and ancient flower-filled gardens on the lakeshore, the Grand Hotel is a romantic and suggestive place, the ideal location to host fabulous weddings receptions as well as private parties. And at the same time, it is a wonderful natural set for memorable wedding photos.

The hotel makes available to brides and grooms: - the wonderful Royal Hall, decorated with gilded stucco and crystal chandeliers, able to accommodate banquets for up to 240 people - the Mistral on the terrace or Sala Tivano next to the hall. - the huge hall and the outdoor space above the private dock are perfect for aperitifs. Finger foods, traditional or creative cuisine and accurate wine selection are supervised and guaranteed by Chef Ettore Bocchia, 1 Michelin star.

The hotel can provide musical entertainment with performances of soloists or ensembles. It can also propose different solutions for flowers: bridal bouquets, floral gifts for guests, personalized compositions for dining tables, decorations for indoor spaces, etc. Moreover, the Grand Hotel SPA proposes special beauty & wellness packages for brides as well as massages and beauty treatments in the twin cabin for brides and grooms.

The hotel can also organize symbolic weddings.

GRAND HOTEL VILLA SERBELLONI BELLAGIO: THE “PEARL OF LAKE COMO”

The position of Bellagio is truly exceptional, even among the thousands of enchanting Italian locations. Its temperate climate has for many years favored vacations and business meetings even during the low season.

In the northern regions, just South of the Alps, Italy offers a wonderful series of lakes which have always attracted tourists and visitors in search of artistic treasures and unique natural landscapes. Among the larger lakes, the Lake Como, easy to recognize thanks to its upturned Y shape, offers visitors the longest and most indented coastline of all the Italian lakes (170 km) as well as wonderful panoramas and a surprising mild “Mediterranean” climate close to mountains.

Lake Como is one of the deepest in Europe (410m) and the great mass of water acts as a thermal reserve which gives mild winters and summers to the surrounding area. For this reason it is possible to find here olives and laurels as well as historic flowered gardens that every year open their doors to flowers’ passionate from all over the world. Villa Melzi and the ancient Villa Serbelloni (now Rockefeller Foundation) are located in Bellagio. Villa Carlotta and Villa Balbianello can be easily reached by boat. Finally, Bellagio offers a variety of opportunities for shopping: jewelry, small shops of crafts, foulards, bags and accessories made of silk, thanks to which the province of Como has become popular all over the world.

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