Nineteenth-century villa with private jetty and park in Cernobbio

You enter through a gate on via Regina and descend an avenue of magnolias and limes to an ochre facade, with green shutters and a staircase of Moltrasio stone that seems to flow towards the water. The 1872 villa has stayed in the same hands for four generations; the 8,000 m² park reaches the shore, where a covered boathouse holds two boats and a timber jetty stretches twenty metres into the lake.

Inside, 700 m² over four levels: eight bedrooms, eight bathrooms, a salon with coffered ceilings and a marble fireplace, a frescoed dining room, the library, a new kitchen with a climate-controlled cellar. In the basement a gym with a small spa; outside, a heated pool, a tennis court and a cottage for staff.

In spring the Tivano, the morning wind, carries the scent of camellias; in the afternoon the Breva ruffles the lake and fills the sails off the shore. Perimeter alarm and four parking spaces in the park.