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There is a kind of traveler who is never quite satisfied. Who doesn’t look for the hotel with the best location on Google Maps, or the monument with the most photos on Instagram. Who searches for something they didn’t know they were looking for — and when they find it, they understand that this was the very reason they travel. For those who design travel experiences in Lombardy, Villa Medici Giulini in Briosco is exactly this kind of discovery. A living home, not a museum Villa Medici Giulini is not a palace that opens its doors to the public on holidays. It is not a stage set. It is a private home, lived in and loved by its owner, Fernanda Giulini, who cares for it with the devotion of someone who knows she is the guardian of something greater than herself. This difference can be felt the moment you step through the gate: there is an atmosphere of authentic life, of everyday beauty, that no historical reconstruction could ever recreate. The most memorable historic residences are not the ones perfectly preserved under a glass dome. They are the ones where someone still lives, still plays music, still chooses every morning to open the windows onto that garden. Villa Medici Giulini is one of these. The garden: one of the oldest in Lombardy The park surrounding the villa is one of the reasons this place deserves a permanent spot in the itineraries of those working in high-end cultural tourism. The Italian-style garden, with its boxwood parterres shaped like lilies and its two perfectly symmetrical hornbeam avenues, dates back to the 18th century and is considered one of the oldest and best preserved gardens in Lombardy. It is not a copy, nor a restored reconstruction: it is the original garden, still shaped by the seasons exactly as it was three centuries ago. Next to this rigorous geometry lies the English park, with a botanical variety that changes completely from month to month. In spring, the Japonica Perla del Lago azaleas turn the lawn a deep pink; in summer, the air fills with the scent of linden trees

A harp and a fortepiano accompany “L’elisir d’amore” recitatives and the aria “Una furtiva lacrima” at Donizetti Festival

The artists receive the audience’s applause on the stage

A series of concerts dedicated to Rossini was held in the Teatrino from 8th to 10th June 2018. Fedora Sorrentino, the Teatro Sociale of Como President, introduces the winners.

Maximilian Fane and the artists at the end of the opera

Flute players around Sir James and Lady Jeanne, who played for them