A fortnight at Park Hotel Villa Belvedere in Cannobio and Bellevue Hotel & Spa in Cogne, with an optional Stresa stay to round off the journey before flying home.
Spend seven nights at Villa Belvedere in Cannobio, then seven at Bellevue in Cogne. The two hotels are the heart of this holiday: gardens and lake life followed by Alpine walks, mountain dining and spa time. Add Stresa after Cogne if you would like an island-and-garden finish and a shorter departure-day journey to Milan Malpensa.
A guide price for a land-only holiday, based on two people sharing. The final quotation confirms room categories, board basis and transport at Villa Belvedere and Bellevue. An optional Stresa extension is quoted separately. Flights are booked separately.
Your proposal makes clear which travel arrangements, meals and visits are included.
A full week in each setting keeps the holiday relaxed. There is time for the places you want to see, for the hotels themselves and for a change of plan when the weather suggests it.
For couples who enjoy characterful hotels, lake outings and walks selected around their stamina. The mountain week can be active or gently paced.
One hotel move divides the fortnight. Choose a few rewarding outings, then leave room for a long lunch, time at the spa or an afternoon beside the lake.
A smaller lake town and a hotel in gardens make a natural first week. Time by the pool and in Cannobio balances excursions, before the change of landscape in Cogne.
The village, meadows and surrounding valleys give you plenty to enjoy without driving somewhere new each morning. Bellevue adds dining and spa time to the mountain stay.
Villa Belvedere in Cannobio and Bellevue in Cogne are our chosen pairing. Give each a full week, with time to enjoy the hotels as well as their surroundings.
Begin in Cannobio, with a smaller lake town to explore and a hotel set in gardens, with time around the pool. Villa Belvedere suits a lake week in which the hotel itself matters as much as excursions; its appeal is the park setting rather than a guaranteed lake view.
After the lake, settle into Cogne for a week beside the Sant’Orso meadows. Bellevue combines its village setting with mountain dining and spa time, giving you good reasons to return after a walk and to enjoy a quieter day at the hotel.
Self-drive offers freedom for wider outings. Private transfers can also make the route work, with local transport and any guided days planned around what you want to do.
Allow a proper travel day for the move into the Aosta Valley. We can suggest a worthwhile lunch or cultural stop that fits your route and leaves time to settle into Bellevue.
For self-drive, the proposal specifies the car, collection and return points and rental terms. With drivers, it separates the main transfers from local excursions. Cogne’s final approach is by road.
Valnontey and the valleys around Cogne provide scope for different walks. Tell us what you normally enjoy: a gentle valley outing and a sustained mountain ascent call for different plans.
This outline focuses on lake outings and mountain walking. We check garden openings, boat services and suitable walks for your dates, with flexibility for mountain weather and conditions.
Use these pages to choose the experiences that matter most, then let us bring the accommodation and practical arrangements together.
Explore Cannobio and the lake’s gardens, towns and outings, with ideas for an optional final stay in Stresa.
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Explore the mountain setting and the balance of walking, village life and time at Bellevue.
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Palace gardens and island village life are a rewarding focus for an optional Stresa stay after Cogne.
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Choose outings for a Stresa extension, while leaving time to enjoy the town and lake before flying home.
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Keep Villa Belvedere and Bellevue as the core holiday, then add Stresa at the end. This puts the longer mountain drives on days within the holiday, rather than combining Cogne’s road journey with a flight on arrival or departure day.
For flights through Milan Malpensa, begin with the road journey to Cannobio, move to Cogne once you are settled into the holiday, then return to Stresa before flying home. Stresa is much closer to Malpensa than Cogne; we plan the final transfer around your flight and traffic.
Cannobio provides the garden hotel and smaller-town setting at the start. Stresa adds convenient island visits, gardens and lakeside restaurants at the finish. It extends the holiday rather than replacing the Cannobio stay.
After Cogne, add a few nights in Stresa for the Borromean Islands, gardens and lakeside restaurants before your journey home. La Luna nel Porto offers a suite base close to town and lake, with the precise view and outside space agreed when we plan your stay.
The core holiday remains 14 nights: seven in Cannobio and seven in Cogne. Add, for example, two or three nights in Stresa for a 16- or 17-night journey. If you have a fixed fortnight, we can rebalance the nights across the three stays. The extension and revised transport are quoted separately.
The core route is Cannobio → Cogne. With a Stresa extension, the order becomes Cannobio → Cogne → Stresa, placing lake stays at both ends of a journey using Milan Malpensa.
The map shows the places in this holiday. Your written itinerary confirms Cannobio and Cogne, any optional Stresa extension, and the road journeys and airport connections.
Tell us your dates, the kind of walking you enjoy and whether you would like to add Stresa after Cogne. We will match the hotels, rooms and travel arrangements to your pace.
Share who is travelling, your date flexibility, walking preferences and whether you would like to drive. Tell us how much time you want for gardens, food and the spa.
We will plan your stays at Villa Belvedere and Bellevue, discuss any Stresa extension, and set out the rooms, board basis, transport and chosen experiences with a tailored price.
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