This villa cannot be taken for another one because of its architectonical structure with two bodies adorned by statues, linked one to the other by a glass arcade with six columns and a balustrated open corridor which overhangs it.
It is in most pure neoclassical style and, we think, the only existing example on Como Lake. It formerly belonged to the Fontanas between the very end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth century. In those years, the Napoleonic General Domenico Pino often stayed here as a guest of his nephew Count Goleazzo's.
Later on, Counts Mondolfo owned this elegant residence and we especially mention Sebastiano Mondollo, who embellished the villa and the garden on the lake inserting a wonderful gate, originally destinated to Villa d'Este, between two high stone pilasters. Later on, the villa was acquired by the Volonté family.