On Thursday March 1st 2018 Villa Monastero in Varenna opens the 2018 season and welcomes visitors to the charming botanic garden on the lake and the house museum, where a vast number of objects belonging to its several owners are displayed.
Opening Times 2018
MARCH
Garden: every day from 10am to 5pm
House Museum: Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and festive days from 10am to 5pm
APRIL
Garden: every day from 10am to 6pm
House Museum: Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and festive days from 10am to 6pm
MAY
Garden: every day from 9.30am to 7pm
House Museum: Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and festive days from 9.30am to 7pm
JUNE-JULY
Garden: every day from 9.30am to 7pm
House Museum: from Tuesday to Sunday and on festive days from 9.30am to 7pm
AUGUST
Garden and House Museum: every day from 9.30am to 7pm
SEPTEMBER
Garden: every day from 9.30am to 6pm
House Museum: Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and festive days from 9.30am to 6pm
OCTOBER AND ON 1st NOVEMBER
Garden: every day from 10am to 6pm
House Museum: on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and festive days from 10am to 6pm on 4th-11th-18th-25th
NOVEMBER
Garden and House Museum: 4th-11th-18th-25th from 10.30am to 4.30pm
DECEMBER
Garden and House Museum: 2nd-8th-9th-16th-23rd-26th-27th-28th-29th-30th-31st from 10.30am to 4.30pm
Tickets for the Garden
€ 5.00 for adults
€ 3.00 senior visitors over the age of 65, groups of 10 people or more, Italian Touring Club members, young people between 12 and 18 and students between 18 and 24.
Tickets for the Garden and the House Museum
€ 8.00 for adults
€ 5.00 senior visitors over the age of 65, groups of 10 people or more, Italian Touring Club members, young people between 12 and 18 and students between 18 and 24.
FREE for children of 11 and under, disabled visitors, ICOM members, Abbonamento Musei Lombardia Milano holders and Varenna citizens.
Boat access to Villa Monastero
The access to the dock at Villa Monastero is allowed to boats and taxi boats only for the time needed to get off and on the boat to visit the Botanical Garden and the House Museum, after asking the ticket office (telephone number 0039 0341 830129).
Berthing platform: width 6,30 m x length 2,70 m, connected to another platform on the shore through a gangway 1,10 m wide and 6,50 m long
