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A boat-access-only estate on Como's Lavedo shore: seven bedrooms across villa and guest house, three hectares of gardens, a staff of ten and the lake at the foot of the steps.
Collection:
Award Winner 2015
Europe’s Best Private Villa
Need To Know
- Seven bedrooms and seven bathrooms across the Main Villa and Guest House, sleeping fourteen
- Exclusive use only, with a minimum stay of one week; shorter stays on request
- Reached by private boat in three minutes; no road access, helicopter transfers arranged nearby
- A staff of ten including butlers and a private chef; menus and provisioning agreed before arrival
- Pool House with cinema and gym; heated infinity pool; floodlit tennis court; boathouse and pizza oven
- Weddings and private celebrations hosted for intimate groups
- Our Favourite Rooms: the lake-facing rooms on the Main Villa's second floor, waking to the water
Check in - Check out
Check in from 14:00; check out before 12:00.
We Love
- The arrival — no road reaches the villa; a launch carries you three minutes across the water to a stone-step pier, and the climb to the door runs through cypress, wisteria and a fountain pool.
- The whole estate, exclusively — Main Villa, Guest House and Pool House with cinema and gym across 30,000 m², with a heated infinity pool above the lake and a floodlit tennis court in the trees.
- A staff of ten in residence — butlers, housekeepers and a private chef who cooks to your table on whichever terrace the evening suggests, with the boat on call at the dock.
- The address — the estate shares the Lavedo promontory with Villa del Balbianello, the lake's most filmed landmark, yet sits hidden from every tourist route. Forbes has ranked it among the world's most beautiful holiday villas.
- Three hectares of gardens kept like a private botanical collection — box hedges, tree peonies, azaleas, jasmine, a vegetable patch for the kitchen and lawns running to the water.
Key Features
Book Your Stay at Villa La Cassinella
€12,869.20 for 1 Night
Location
Address
Address: 22016 Tremezzina CO, Italy
Travel Info
Milan Malpensa and Linate are about an hour's drive to the private launch near Lenno, then three minutes by boat; there is no road to the villa. Helicopter transfers land nearby. Como town is 20 km south, Tremezzina's villages minutes away by water.
Last Updated: 2026-06-04
Expert Review
Origins
La Cassinella was built at the end of the nineteenth century for a family of Como industrialists, who gave it the thing that still defines it: gardens laid out from the waterline up, on a shore that can only properly be seen from a boat. The Mantegazza family restored the estate in the 1920s, and its modern chapter began with a complete renovation finished in 2008 — undertaken, the story goes, as a private home, until the owner changed his mind mid-project and set a different brief: the best villa rental there could be.
The geography did half the work. The estate shares the Lavedo promontory with Villa del Balbianello, the lake's most celebrated landmark, on the western shore near Lenno — yet where its neighbour receives the world, La Cassinella receives no one it hasn't invited. There is no road. Everything and everyone arrives by water, up the stone steps, through the formal gardens, exactly as guests did a century ago.
What the renovation added is the machinery of ease: the Pool House with its cinema and gym, the heated infinity pool, the floodlit tennis court, and a resident staff of ten who run the estate to hotel standards without a hotel's traffic. Forbes has ranked it among the most beautiful holiday villas in the world; the lake's boatmen, who see every villa on the shore, simply point and slow down.
Top Secret
Press the butler button. The staff carry a portable summons system, so an English-trained butler materialises wherever on the 30,000 square metres you happen to be — pool, tennis court, jetty. And ask the chef about the vegetable patch and the pizza oven: the most memorable lunch on the estate is also its most informal.
The Review
The three-minute crossing does what no driveway could. Lenno's waterfront slips behind, the Lavedo promontory rises ahead, and the villa appears through its cypresses the way it was designed to be seen — from the water, ochre against green, with the stone steps waiting at the pier. By the time you reach the top of the gardens, the lake has rearranged your sense of time, which is the estate's entire purpose.
The houses divide the party naturally: the Main Villa's formal drawing and dining rooms and lake-facing bedrooms for the centre of gravity, the Guest House for those who like their privacy doubled, the Pool House for the afternoons — cinema, gym, and the heated infinity pool hanging above the water. Days fill without being filled: tennis under the trees, the boat idling out to lunch on the lake, swimming from the pool while the ferries cross in the middle distance. The gardens reward slow circuits; a century of planting will do that.
The service is the quiet spectacular. Ten staff run the estate — butlers, housekeepers, a chef who shops the lake's markets and cooks to whichever terrace the light favours — and the effect is a hotel's competence with a private home's manners. Dinner arrives under the pergola as the lights come on across the water at Bellagio. It is the rarest arrangement on Como: the lake's grandest theatre, played nightly, for an audience of fourteen.
