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The villa was built next to Villa Passalacqua between 1829 – 1830. The building is immerged into a wide park that opens onto the main road Via Regina, and it is connected to the lake through a over- passing bridge. The three flats building is of square plan and its front facing the lake is characterized by a central gable. On of the most frequent visitors of the villa was the musician Maestro Bellini, who in 1827, reached Milan hoping to find some estimators and sponsors of his art. For this reason he started to go to the most interesting salon of Milan where he met Count Passalacqua as well as Giuditta Cantù, wife to Ferdinando Turina, with whom he started a love story that carried on at Villa Selterio, by the shore of Lake Como. In this villa Giuditta spent very long periods of time, living her intense love affaire with Maestro Bellini, out of sight of gossiping people. It was indeed during those years that Bellini composed his most famous operas. Also thanks to the help of his friend and favoured Opera singer Giuditta Pasta. On one of the external wall of the villa epigraph remembers the days when Bellini was a frequent visitor.
In the quiet hospitality
of this pleasant abode
Vincenzo Bellini
came to draw inspiration.
Here he wrote the “Straniera”
and from here he drew exciting melodies
for the “Sonnambula”.
This because the fact be memory to posterity.