Mandarin Oriental, Lago di Como

The estate occupies a slope at Blevio on the eastern shore of Lake Como, five kilometres from the town of Como, in a botanical park of some fifty species planted over two centuries. What the property holds is not a building but a collection of them: nine eighteenth- and nineteenth-century houses and outbuildings dispersed through the park down to the water, so guests live in what were separate villas and cross the garden between them. The lakefront is the estate's own, and a pool floats on the water in front of it. Blevio's road runs above, and the park falls away from it to the shore.

The centrepiece is Villa Roccabruna, a neoclassical house that belonged to the soprano Giuditta Pasta. The site opened as CastaDiva Resort in the 2000s, was bought by Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group in 2018 and reopened under its own name in 2019 after a full renovation. It is counted at seventy-five keys, published as twenty-four rooms, forty-nine suites and two standalone villas, and separately as seventy-three with two villas. A spa of about 1,330 square metres sits within the grounds. The house runs from March to January and closes for the deep winter.

An estate assembled from houses. Living here means occupying one of nine buildings rather than a floor of one. The plan gives the property a village structure that a single hotel on the same ground could not produce.

Its own waterline. The park runs to the lake and the frontage is held. On this shore, where most villas of this age were divided from their landings long ago, that is the fact worth recording.

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• Mandarin Oriental record and trade coverage - estate of nine buildings in a centuries-old botanical park at Blevio; acquired by the group in 2018 and reopened in 2019 after renovation; seventy-five guestrooms, suites and villas; spa of about 1,330 square metres; open March to January
• Published history - the neoclassical Villa Roccabruna was the house of the soprano Giuditta Pasta; the site traded as CastaDiva Resort before the sale

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keys are published as seventy-five, split twenty-four rooms and forty-nine suites plus two villas, and separately as seventy-three plus two villas. The floating pool is described both as twelve metres and as the largest of its kind in the world, on a design attributed to Herzog and de Meuron.

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Classified by The Resort Collection House · The Register · Edition 2026 · LHL-E-136
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