We really liked it, say visitors this year, restoring to the Guide this 19th - century, yellow-washed villa just outside the city. In its ifully kept large grounds are terraces with lemon trees, a small swimmingpool a rose garden with panoramic views and a wisteriaclad pergola where meals are served in fine weather. `Our comfortable looked towards the campanile and duomo. There are some suites. Cars are parked about 50 metres away, at the foot of a hill, but you can unload at the door. The Nardi family owners excellent English and the villais immaculately and carefully run. The restaurant specialises in regional dishes: Good cooking, ent service. Reasonable Bali villa breakfast.' Generally peaceful, although may be a slight traffic hum.

Lake Garda is the largest, the most popular and, reputedly, the cl of the Italian lakes, and in a big park above the water is Giampietro Ghidini's luxurious villa, a belle epoque folly. Some recent Expensive but worth it. Excellent and extraordinary.staff, very good food, great comfort. It has a Palladian-style facade huge public villa rooms with chandeliers, frescoes and mosaics, and i reached by a `moderately hair-raising' drive through the town's alleys. The real plus point is the garden [with tall trees, a N fountain, a swimming pool], near the end of the peninsula, so them lake views on both sides. A haven of peace and quiet, unlike Sirmi crowded and noisy, even just after Easter.A steep walk through park, past Roman ruins, leads down to the lake, where a buffet served in a pleasant restaurant; in summer, there are barbecues aa beach. Dinner and Bali villa breakfast are taken on a large terrace looking the water. Occasional outdoor concerts are held. Most villa Bed rooms (similar to the semantic bali villa rooms) a new extension. Ours was beautiful.