Castello di Vezio, Varenna Wedding Photographers
Wedding Venue - Vezio Castle of Lake Como, Italy
Outdoor wedding photography in the gardens.
"In the center of Lake Como, on the promontory overlooking Varenna, the Vezio Castle has stood for more than a thousand years, an ancient military outpost of low medieval origin erected to defend and control the lake and surrounding villages by the Lombard queen Teodolinda. Located in a militarily and commercially strategic place which dominates the entire center of Lake Como and therefore inhabited since the Iron Age, the Castle was associated in the past with the village of Varenna and connected to it by two long arms of walls that surrounded it to the lake, protecting the town and its inhabitants in the frequent wars and looting that shook the territory throughout the Middle Ages. Partially restored in the mid-twentieth century, today the Castle has a square-based watchtower, accessible via a small drawbridge and open to the top, surrounded by a first quadrangular wall with a partial corner tower. Immersed in the greenery of one of the most northern olive groves in the world, thanks to the effect of thermoregulation of the lake's waters, the Castle, open and open from March to November, occasionally hosts exhibitions of works of art of various kinds in the garden and permanently, inside the tower, an exhibition on the Lariosaurus, a prehistoric marine reptile that came to light for the first time in the world a few hundred meters from the Castle. With its partially visited basements, the statues scattered in the garden, the "ghosts" and the birds of prey of our small falconry center, the castle merges, in a context of unparalleled natural beauty, with art."