Villa Carlotta

The Sachsen-Meiningens

GEORG OF SACHSEN-MEININGEN

The villa in Tremezzo was sold in 1843 to Princess Marianne of the Netherlands, the wife of Prince Albert of Prussia.
The price (780.000 liras) was ten times the amount paid by that G. Sommariva d to the Clericis 40 years before.
Princesses Marianne gave the villa as a wedding present to her daughter Carlotta (1831-1855), on occasion of her marriage with Georg of Sachsen-Meiningen (1826-1914).
The Sachsen-Meiningens considered the villa a strictly private residence using it as a holiday location; they didn't make any substantial changes in the building; they sold the remains of the art collection, with the exception of some statues and paintings and devoted themselves to the care and enrichment of the garden introducing a great variety of rare and exotic species.
Carlotta died in 1855: she was only 23 years old.
The villa belonged to the Sachsen-Meiningens until the outbreak of the World War I.