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Bellagio from Tremezzo

Bellagio stands on the tip of the headland that divides the lake into its Como and Lecco branches. From Tremezzo, on the western shore, the whole village can be seen below the hill of Villa Serbelloni. The photochrom was printed by Photoglob of Zurich between 1890 and 1900; the photograph was taken in 2016 from the garden of Villa Carlotta.

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Bellagio on the far shore of the lake, below the wooded hill with the villa on top and the grey rock faces of the mountains; in the foreground, the red and green leaves of a garden.
A late nineteenth-century photochrom: Bellagio on the far shore of the lake, below a wooded hill with a white villa on top, and rocky mountains in pink tones behind.
1890–1900 · Photochrom by Photoglob, ZurichPhotochrom Print Collection · Public domain2016 · PhotographRay in Manila · CC BY 2.0

What the two pictures show

The mountains, the wooded hill and the villa on top are the same. On the slope between the village and the woods the photochrom shows meadows and terraces; in the photograph it is covered in trees and cypresses.