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Nowadays, the building architecture is in pure neoclassic style, with symmetrical flight of stairs that joins at the garden level and both lower directly to the lake dockings. Toward the half of 1700, Family of Princes Odescalchi had the first body of a villa built on the remains of an ancient monastery of the Humiliate Friars. In 1787, the building was sold to Counf Andrea Passalacqua who, thanks to the architects Soave and Albertolli, transformed it into a sumptuous abode with a wide garden lowering toward the lake shore. At the death of Count Andrea, the villa passed to his heir Gianbattista Lucini Passalacqua, who chose it as his residence when he retired and where he gathered all the souvenirs of his voyages and set up a very rich library that became a meeting place for artists, musicians and learned people: among them there was Vincenzo Bellini, who was a guest of the Count between, 1820 and 1833. In this villa the great musician composed some of his most famous opera such as “Norma” “La Straniera” and “La Sonnambula”, and which has been inspired by the Opera Singer Giuditta Pasta, who owned a villa at Blevio, on the opposite shore. In the 1970s, the villa was restored by the new owner Oscar Kiss Maerth and nowadays it is a residential place and a seat for events as well as a location for weddings.