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Hotel Villa e Palazzo Aminta
€279.70/ Night
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An admiral's Belle Époque villa above Stresa's Borromean Gulf — 72 rooms and suites, a mosaic spa grotto, and the hotel's own dock with Isola Bella minutes across the water.
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Need To Know
- 72 individually styled rooms and suites, many with private balconies over the lake; the top-floor La Borromea Suite adds a private staircase, lift and its own Jacuzzi pool
- Open April to late October; the hotel closes for winter
- Families welcome — kids' club and babysitting available; the private beach and dock carry waterskiing, parasailing and motorboat hire
- Our Favourite Rooms: a Deluxe Double with lake view for the balcony; the Liz Taylor Suite for the history
- Two restaurants — gourmet Le Isole and Italian I Mori — plus I Principi Bar and the terrace for the aperitivo hour
- The Palazzo Aminta spa centres on the mosaic grotta: whirlpool, Turkish bath and sensory showers
- Free parking; bicycles for Stresa and the lakefront
Check in - Check out
Check in from 15:00; check out before 11:00.
We Love
- The hotel's own dock — a boat to Isola Bella leaves from the bottom of the garden, putting the Borromeo palace, its terraced baroque gardens and the white peacocks ten minutes from your room.
- The spa grotta — a mosaic cave of whirlpool, Turkish bath and sensory showers beneath the Palazzo; book treatments ahead in high season, the room itself is half the cure.
- The terrace at golden hour — prosecco arrives with a ripe strawberry on the glass, the house signature, as the light drops behind the islands.
- Dinner at I Mori — ask for a window table; the Piedmont side of the lake cooks generously, and the view does the rest. Le Isole handles the gourmet evenings.
- The lake-facing pool and private beach — a solarium aimed straight at the Borromean Islands, with waterskiing, parasailing and motorboats off the hotel's own moorings.
Key Features
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€279.70 for 1 Night
Location
Address
Via Sempione Nord 123 28838 Stresa Italy
Travel Info
A scenic 50-minute drive from Milan Malpensa, 90 minutes from central Milan and just under two hours from Lugano. Free parking at the hotel; Stresa's centre and ferry landings are minutes away, and the hotel's own dock launches boats to the islands.
Nearby Places
Stresa Town Centre
20min
Milan Malpensa Airport (MXP)
32mi
Last Updated: 2026-06-04
Expert Review
Origins
Capece retired from the Royal Navy in 1918 and built his answer to forty years at sea: a villa on the green slope above the Borromean Gulf, named for his wife, Aminta. The house began modestly — seven rooms and a single bathroom — but the address did the rest. The Belle Époque came to call, and in 1926 the sculptor Paolo Troubetzkoy, born just along the shore at Intra, sat his friend George Bernard Shaw for a portrait while the playwright stayed as the Admiral's guest, captivated by the view the Admiral had chosen.
The villa kept its talent for romance. In 1966 Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton chose it for one of their escapes — the suite that bears her name still faces the lake — and in 2000 the Zanetta family, Beatrice, Roberto and Daniela, restored the whole estate to its original splendour: stuccoes, chandeliers, tapestries and Belle Époque colour, married to quietly modern comforts across what is now 72 rooms between the Villa and the Palazzo.
The family's touch shows in the details the hotel is known for — the strawberry on the champagne glass, the gardens of azaleas and camellias running to the private dock — and in the conviction that a house built as a love letter should go on behaving like one.
Top Secret
The strawberry on your champagne glass is the house signature — but the real insider move is across the water: the Museo del Paesaggio at Verbania keeps Troubetzkoy's plaster works, the sculptor who sat George Bernard Shaw in this very villa in 1926. See the studio, then come home to where the sitting happened.
The Review
Arrival sets the tone the villa has kept since the Admiral built it: gardens of azaleas and camellias running to the water, the Borromean Islands arranged across the gulf, and a glass of prosecco on the terrace with the strawberry balanced on its rim. The house divides between the Villa and the Palazzo, and the rooms wear their Belle Époque honestly — stucco, chandeliers, tapestried colour — with balconies that make the lake the first and last thing you see.
Days here are built on the water. The hotel's dock launches the islands: Isola Bella's baroque palace and terraced gardens first, Isola dei Pescatori for lunch, Isola Madre's botanical park if the afternoon allows. The private beach carries the faster pleasures — waterskiing, parasailing, a motorboat of your own — while the pool and solarium hold the view for the unhurried, and the mosaic grotta below the Palazzo answers with steam, whirlpool and quiet.
Evenings move from I Principi Bar to the tables: I Mori for the lake's classic cooking, a window seat earning its reservation, and Le Isole when the night calls for the gourmet menu. The kitchen leans on Piedmont, which is the right shore to lean on. Stresa's promenade is minutes away for the passeggiata; the last act, though, belongs to the terrace, the islands going dark on the water, and a villa that was built as a love letter still reading like one.
