Once Giuditta Pasta's lakeside villa, now a 73-suite resort across seven historic buildings on the Blevio shore — a floating Lake Como swimming pool, a 1,300-square-metre spa, and an eight-minute shuttle to Como Cathedral.
"The Blevio shore's largest historical-villa-gone-resort proposition. Seven heritage buildings, a floating lake pool, a 1,300-square-metre spa — and a residential-villa scale that Tremezzo and Villa d'Este, for all their grandeur, cannot offer."
CastaDiva Resort & Spa occupies a 26,000-square-metre lakefront estate on the Blevio shore of Lake Como — the eastern bank, three kilometres north of Como city and roughly opposite Cernobbio (the village home to Villa d'Este). The estate's anchor building is the Villa Roccabruna, the former summer residence of Giuditta Pasta — the great Italian operatic soprano of the early 19th century, for whom Vincenzo Bellini composed the Norma role and the "Casta Diva" aria from which the resort takes its name. The other six buildings on the estate are a combination of original 18th- and 19th-century villas (the Villa Bellini, the Villa Casta Diva, the Villa Norma, the Villa Sonzogno) and contemporary additions completed during the property's 2010 conversion into a resort. The current operating partner is Mandarin Oriental, which took over the property in 2024 ahead of a planned full Mandarin Oriental rebrand of the resort, while continuing to operate it under the CastaDiva name during the transition.
The 73 suites are distributed across the seven villas. The smallest categories (Classic Rooms, around 30–40 square metres) are in the contemporary additions; the Deluxe Lake View suites occupy the lake-front rooms in the historic villas; the Junior Suites and the named-villa Suites (Villa Bellini Suite, Villa Norma Suite, Villa Casta Diva Suite) are the larger units (65–150 square metres) with separate sitting rooms and direct lake-front terraces. The two private villa categories — the standalone Villa Roccabruna and the Villa Sonzogno — are full villa rentals with multiple bedrooms, private pools, dining rooms, and dedicated kitchen and butler service for groups of four to ten guests. The historic-villa interiors retain original 19th-century frescoed ceilings, terrazzo flooring, and lake-front French doors; the contemporary-building interiors are restrained Italian neo-classical with neutral palettes and lake-view orientation.
Dining is split across three restaurants. L'Orangerie is the property's flagship — a fine-dining room in the converted greenhouse of the Villa Roccabruna, serving a contemporary Italian tasting menu under chef Massimiliano Mandozzi. Il Caffé del Bolgia is the all-day brasserie on the lake terrace, popular for the lake-front lunch crowd. The Cafè della Diva is the lobby tea and aperitivo room. The defining feature of the property is the floating swimming pool — a 25-metre lap pool built directly into Lake Como, projecting from the lake-front terrace into the water — together with the second freshwater pool on the upper terrace. The Espace Spa runs to 1,300 square metres across two floors, with a Turkish bath, a Finnish sauna, ten treatment rooms, and a hydrotherapy pool. The shuttle launch runs eight minutes across the lake to Como city.
The position is the structural reason to choose CastaDiva over Tremezzo, Villa d'Este, or Mandarin Oriental Lago di Como. Blevio is on the Como city side of the eastern shore — closer than Bellagio, much closer than Tremezzo, and structurally faster to and from Milan-Linate (50 minutes) and Milan-Malpensa (55 minutes) for an arrival or onward flight. The trade-off is that you are not in the Bellagio peninsula's cinematic central position; the compensating advantage is the 26,000-square-metre lakefront site (much larger than the lake-front footprint of any of the Bellagio peninsula five-stars), the seven-villa scale (each of which can be booked entirely as a private compound), and the 1,300-square-metre spa (the largest at any Lake Como hotel).
For a Lake Como wellness retreat that takes the spa programme as the central organising principle, CastaDiva is the considered pick. The 1,300-square-metre Espace Spa is the largest at any Lake Como hotel; the residential 26,000-square-metre site provides space for the spa-and-walking programmes that the more compact Bellagio peninsula five-stars cannot accommodate; the proximity to Como city allows half-day medical-spa programmes at the Como hospital network when relevant.
Lake Como family holidays at the level where the children need a swimming pool, garden space, and a kids' programme — but where the parents want a serious spa and a fine-dining-room option in residence — are CastaDiva's strongest brief. Junior Suites in the historic villas handle a family of four; the standalone Villa Roccabruna or Villa Sonzogno handle three generations or a small family-and-friends booking. The shuttle launch to Como city is the family-friendly access to lake-front restaurants and shopping.
Via Caronti 69
22020 Blevio (CO)
Lake Como, Italy
3 km north of Como city; 8-min shuttle launch to Como Cathedral; 50 min by car to Milan Linate; 55 min to Milan Malpensa
73 suites across 7 historic and contemporary villas + 2 private villas
Classic Rooms from EUR 430/night
Deluxe Lake View from EUR 620/night
Villa Suites from EUR 1,400/night
Villa Roccabruna from EUR 8,500/night (private use)
Check-in: 3:00 PM
Check-out: 12:00 PM
Original Villa Roccabruna early 1800s (Giuditta Pasta residence); resort opened 2010; Mandarin Oriental operating partner from 2024
L'Orangerie fine-dining restaurant
Floating Lake Como pool (25 m)
Espace Spa, 1,300 sqm across 2 floors
Two private villas for full-buyout
Shuttle launch to Como city
26,000 sqm lakefront estate
Seasonal closure December–February
Free WiFi throughout
From EUR 430/night. The Villa Roccabruna and Villa Sonzogno private-villa categories book six to nine months ahead for the May–September Lake Como peak; standard suites in the contemporary buildings are easier to secure three to four months ahead. The resort closes seasonally December through February.
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