"We will stop at the villa…, situated in the middle of a wood with tough trees on the steep promontory which separates the two branches of the lake and has the shape of an upside down Y. The trees frame a precipice of 500 feet which falls straight on the lake”: this is Stendhal's memento of one of the oldest and most enchanting villas of the Lario. Legend narrates that the hill of Bellagio, on which is built , was once the frame which acted as background to an old Roman residence which belonged to Pliny the Younger.