THE GARDEXS OF ITALY. 
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escaping here from 
the oppressive solemnity 
of the great hotel 
into which the old villa 
has been converted. 
Higher up the lake, 
and facing Bell agio, 
which marks the division 
of the lake, the lower 
part being known as 
Como and the upper as 
Lecco, lies the Villa 
Carlotta, which belongs 
to the classicist period. 
The house is well 
terraced up from the 
lake shore, starting from 
an enclosure of piers and 
gates of fanciful outline 
375. — B.ALBIANELLO : THE LOGGI.A ON THE SUMMIT. 373)- Otl the left 
is the family chapel. 
This is a small, irregular octagon inside, covered by a dome. The villa w^as built in 1747 by 
Giorgio Clerice. To the Sommariva family it must ow'e its present form and style of the early 
nineteenth century. In 1843 it passed to Princess Albert of Prussia, and takes its name from 
her daughter Charlotte, who died in 185s. 
376. — BALBIANELLO : THE LITTLE HARBOUR AT THE BASE. 
