Villa Cornaggia or Mirabella Lake Como

Villa Cornaggia It is an architectural jewel located in Just like, on the suggestive eastern shore of Lake Como, a short distance from Villa Geno. This site, enchantingly positioned on a rocky promontory overlooking the lake, has been known since ancient times as "Mirabello", a name that appears in numerous historical maps of Lario.

The first traces of the construction date back to Five hundred, when the historian Paolo Giovio mentioned a "Mirabella domus pendenti imposita scopulo" (a Mirabella house perched on a cliff) in his work "Descriptio Larii Lacus" of 1537. This description is still visible today at the villa, engraved on a stone overlooking the staircase to the lake.

The current building, characterised by a elegant eclectic style, was built in 1912 at the behest of the Cornaggia Medici family, immediately after the sale of the neighbor Villa Geno to the Municipality of Como. The project was entrusted to the Bergamo architect engineer Louis Angelini, while the Milanese engineer agree made some changes, making the structure more slender than the original designs. The villa is embellished with splendid wrought iron decorations, particularly visible on the balconies and in the areas overlooking the lake.

In 1960, the architect from Como Mario Musa he bought Villa Mirabella and restored it with meticulous care, dividing it into four independent apartments and changing the exterior color from gray to "Lombard yellow", a shade typical of the region.

The villa has acquired further notoriety since 1999, when it became one of the main sets of the famous Italian soap opera Vivere. This has transformed Villa Mirabella into an unmissable destination for fans of the series, who often stop by boat in the waters in front to admire this iconic place up close.