Lake Como Tapestries

Taken from a late 18th century tapestry scene at Lake Como in northern Italy. The terrace and garden tapestries are those of the Villa d'Este Estate with their peaceful gardens, which can still be visited today. Lake Como is the third largest of the north Italian Lakes and the deepest in Europe inspired Shelley, Byron and Wordsworth and gave birth to Manzoni. Its rugged beauty, soaring mountain peaks, gentle foothills, and lakeside towns, such as Varenna, Bellagio, Menaggio and Tremezzo have attracted scores of composers, artists and landscape gardeners from Giuseppe Verdi and Franz Liszt to Prince Charles as well as the late President Kennedy.