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Villa Plinianina, Torno

Visit duration
5–15 min
Booking
Not required
Area
First Basin
The villa seen from the lake: a pink and white banded front with Gothic windows, balconies and small loggias, above the stone wall of the shore; around it cypresses, trees and flowering shrubs.Mayo4web · CC BY-SA 4.0

Why go

Villa Plinianina is a nineteenth-century residence with pink and grey bands on the shore between Torno and Villa Pliniana.

Built from 1855 for railway engineer Canzio Canzi, it draws on Venetian palaces in an eclectic style. The building is anchored to the rock and rises over four levels. Its façade has a three-arched Doric loggia on paired columns and windows with broken pediments; a small loggia crowns the upper part. It stands on the remains of a building recorded in 1713, once owned by the Tanzi family. The name Plinianina comes from nearby Villa Pliniana and was already used for the boatmen's house that preceded it. The villa is divided into flats, with a small boathouse and harbour; its front can be viewed from the lake.

  • A villa in Venetian style on the shore of the lake's first basin.
  • It can be seen from the boat, between Torno and Villa Pliniana.

Highlights

  • The Gothic windows and colonnaded loggias
  • The old-rose and grey bands
  • The little loggia at the top
  • The boathouse and the little harbour

Getting there

  • It stands on the shore between Torno and Villa Pliniana, along Via Pliniana; it is seen from the lake, the boat included.

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