Villa Monastero

Organizing an art exhibition in 2019 inevitably presents an important question: what is art for today?What can today be the function of an oil painting or a bronze sculpture in...

On Friday 8th March - International Women’s Day - the Province of Lecco will offer to all women the opportunity to visit the Villa Monastero House Museum and Botanic Garden for free from 10am to 5pm.

We inform our kind visitors that the Botanical Garden of Villa Monastero will be open for free from Wednesday 15th to Saturday 18th August from 7pm to 11pm to allow guests...

The Province of Lecco has organised a special event for Wednesday 15TH August 2018: a lunch in the beautiful setting of the Botanical Garden of Villa Monastero.   A rich buffet lunch will be available from 12pm...

On Saturday 21st of July at 9 p.m. at Sala Fermi Hall of Villa Monastero, Hanna Fridriks Trio will have a concert embracing beloved works from the Great American Songbook by...

On Saturday 12th May from 2pm to 5pm, the Province of Lecco adheres to the initiative Kid Pass Days 2018. The children with their families, through an itinerary with funny quizzes...

In April all the visitors of Villa Monastero can enjoy the Botanical Garden in blossom.   In particular, in the month of April during the initiative Camellias on Lario 2018, it...

On Thursday 8th March - International Women’s Day - the Province of Lecco will offer to all women the opportunity to visit the Villa Monastero House Museum and Botanic Garden...

On Thursday 30th  November the exhibition I Sacri Monti prealpini is going to be inaugurated in the exhibition room of Villa Monastero inVarenna. It is an interesting photographic exhibition by Marco Beck Peccoz dedicated to the representation of Sacri Monti. The Sacri Monti...

On Friday 25th August and Saturday 9th September the last two concerts of the 30th music festival “Tra lago e monti 2017” (Between lake and mountains 2017) will take place...

On Tuesday 25th July at 9.00 pm Hanna Fridriksdottir will present her new album “It Must Be Spring” in Fermi Hall in Villa Monastero. Free entrance on a first come first served basis. The Botanical Garden of Villa Monastero...

Saturday 1st July at 5.30 pm the exhibition “Paesaggio e lavoro – scene di vita quotidiana” (Landscape and work: scenes of everyday life) in the House Museum and in the exhibition...

From Saturday 15th October to Friday 31st March 2017 the Province of Lecco organizes the exhibition “Villa Monastero, tra Shakespeare e Manzoni” (Villa Monastero, between Shakespeare and Manzoni).   The exhibition can be visited...

From Saturday 1st October to Friday 31st March 2017 in the exhibition room of the Villa Monastero, will take place the exhibition Duemila anni di navigazione lariana (Two thousand years of navigation...

Saturday, December 3rd the Province of Lecco will organize guided tours of the House Museum for people with disabilities, possible thanks to the absence of architectural barriers in the House...

For all the Christmas time, at Villa Monastero, a Nativity scene will be set up, which visitors can admire during the opening days from Sunday November 27th.

From Saturday 15th October to Saturday 31st December the Province of Lecco organizes the exhibition “Villa Monastero, tra Shakespeare e Manzoni” (Villa Monastero, between Shakespeare and Manzoni).   The exhibition can be...

From Saturday 1st October to Saturday 31st December in the exhibition room of the Villa Monastero, will take place the exhibition "Duemila anni di navigazione lariana" (Two thousand years of...

From 18th June to 25th September 2016 the exhibition "La Montagna Dipinta" (Painted Mountain) can be visited at the Villa Monastero House Museum.   Opening hours: August: every day from 9.30 am to 7...

From 15th to 28th August the Monte Marenzo Sports Society (social area) will propose an activity to the visitors of the Villa Monastero asking them not to smoke in the...

From Saturday 27th August to Sunday 25th September an exhibition of old radios from the period between the end of XIX century and the beginning of XX century will take...

On Thursday 25th August at 9 pm, the Music Festival Tra lago e monti.Villa Monastero, Sala Fermi.

On Tuesday 16th August at 9 pm in the Fermi room of the Villa Monastero Charlie Kelly – renown lecturer in psychic disciplines – will pragmatically and clearly deal with...

On Sunday 9th October at the Villa Monastero it will be possible for families with children to take part to a treasure hunt. On Sunday 9th October at the Villa Monastero it...

On Sunday 18th and on Sunday 25th September it will be possible to visit the Villa Monastero House Museum with a reduced ticket of € 4 instead of € 8.

On Saturday from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday 25th September from 9.30 a.m. to 6 p.m.

On Sunday 25th September at 6 pm in the Fermi room of the Villa Monastero it will be possible to attend a Puppets show, which is part of the La...

Every Sunday of November at the Villa Monastero it will be possible to take part to activities for families and children.

On Sunday 4th, Thursday 8th, Friday 9th, Saturday 10th, Sunday 11th, Sunday 18th and from Monday 26th to Saturday 31st from 11 am to 5 pm: Special openings for Christmas

On Saturday 6th February the Province of Lecco, in collaboration with Comune di Varenna, presents the traditional Carnival at Villa Monastero.   At 2.30 pm the Carnival parade will start from the Ferry Terminal in Varenna and, passing through...

On the occasion of the special openings for Christmas 2015 at Villa Monastero the Province of Lecco engages the visitors in a new amusing initiative.   Visiting Villa Monastero on Sunday 13th, Sunday...

  In order to give tourists and families the chance to spend part of their Christmas holidays in the magic atmosphere of Villa Monastero, the Province of Lecco has decided that...

Until 31st August the documentary exhibition Michelangelo Guggenheim (1837-1914): antiquarian, art dealer, furniture and decorative art objects collector and designer, curated by Alice Martignon, will be open to the public...

  On Tuesday 25th August at 9 pm, the 28th Music Festival “Tra lago e monti”, this year in the Special Edition Expo 2015 “A journey through music: food for the...

From Saturday 20th June to Sunday 30th August Villa Monastero and the “Rosa and Marco De Marchi” Room in Varenna will host the exhibition Vie d’acqua tra ‘800 e ‘900: immagini del Lario e...

On Thursday 9th July, from 4:30 pm to 6 pm, parents and children will be involved in an interactive tour that will lead them to discover, through play, the history and...

On Sunday 6th September, at 10 o' clock, there will be the fourth and last guided tour at Villa Monastero and Varenna proposed for the occasion of Expo 2015 by...

On Sunday 2nd August there will be the third guided tour at Villa Monastero and Varenna proposed for the occasion of Expo 2015 by the qualified tourist guides of Gruppo...

On Sunday 5th July there will be the second guided tour at Villa Monastero and Varenna proposed for the occasion of Expo 2015 by the qualified tourist guides of Gruppo...

On Sunday 21st June there will be the first guided tour at Villa Monastero and Varenna proposed for the occasion of Expo 2015 by the qualified tourist guides of Gruppo...

On Sunday 31st May, at 5:30 pm, the exposition The Golden Apple will be inaugurated in the Exhibition Room of Villa Monastero. It will be open to the public every day from 10:30 am...

On Sunday 23rd May and on Sunday 6th June at 4 p.m., in collaboration with Grandi Giardini Italiani, Villa Monastero will take part to the Chelsea Fringe Italia 2015 festival...

Exhibition Enrico Fermi a Villa Monastero from 1st July to 2nd November 2014 Villa Monastero House Museum The exhibition can be visited in the opening time of the House Museum