Villa Sola Busca, Tremezzo, Neoclassical villa in Tremezzo, Italy

Villa Sola Busca stands on the Tremezzo lakeshore within an Italian-style garden, reached from the water by a landing stage designed in 1813 by Francesco Bernardino Ferrari. A wrought-iron gate on pillars carved with mythological figures and large carved stone vases leads to the house, whose central tympanum carries the Serbelloni heraldic symbols. Inside are frescoes and canvases by Francesco Conegliani showing scenes from the Aeneid, stuccowork by Muzio Canzio, and two paintings by Francesco Hayez.

The villa was built in the early 18th century for the Duchess of Carretto, who sold it to the Brentano family, specifically the Grianta branch; it was then known as Casa Grianta. Duke Gabrio Serbelloni acquired it, and from 1754 Giuseppe Parini spent nine years there as tutor to his children. His son Gian Galeazzo commissioned the early 19th-century neoclassical remodelling. Through the marriage of Luisa Serbelloni to Marquis Lodovico Busca and later the Sola Cabiati family, the property passed to its current owners.

The villa's name comes from the Busca family, into which Luisa Serbelloni married; the property passed to the Sola Cabiati counts when Andrea Sola married Antonietta Busca in 1871. Inside are two paintings by Francesco Hayez, and the ceilings carry frescoes and canvases of scenes from the Aeneid by Francesco Conegliani.

The property is private and does not allow public visits to its interior spaces or art collections. The exterior facade and garden side can be viewed from the lake, offering an outside perspective of the residence.

The villa's lakeside entrance is reached by a landing stage designed in 1813 by Francesco Bernardino Ferrari, followed by a wrought-iron gate held up by pillars carved with mythological figures and large sculpted stone vases.