One of the pearls of Lake Garda: the early sixteenth-century Villa Guarienti-Brenzone, by Michele Sanmicheli, an architect of the twilight of the High Renaissance

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Together with the peninsula on which it stands, the villa belongs to the Counts Guarienti-Brenzone, descendants of two eminent figures of the Renaissance.

The venerable arcaded building stands amid a lush garden filled with marble statues and neoclassical tombstones. A church adjoins the villa.

The main building is now a hotel. Over five centuries many famous and distinguished people have stayed here, among them the future Emperor Alexander II.

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One of the pearls of Lake Garda: the early sixteenth-century Villa Guarienti-Brenzone, by Michele Sanmicheli, an architect of the twilight of the High Renaissance

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