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Overview

They have said

"This has been our best ever holiday." Rob and Sue, May 2010,UK.
"Wonderful holiday, lake Como is magical and Varenna stunningly beautiful. La Tour Orange has added another dimension to our stay, we knew nothing of this area so feel privileged to have found it." Stewart and David, June 2010, UK.
"Have just spent 5 days in heaven!" Angela and Rod, June 2010, Australia.
"Thank you for sharing your island of tranquility with us!" Daniel and Lori, July 2010, USA.
"We have had a perfect two weeks to travel up and down the lake and sample the delicacies of the area. The library has enabled us to catch up on some reading. Grazie e arrivederci". Angela and Brendan, September 2010, Australia.

The house seen from the lake.

Ground floor - bathroom

Philippe Starck has made history. Over the years, his many creations have turned into classics and his name has reached cult status. What more could this man offer? The bathroom at source. And once again, the world has become a great deal richer. Designwise. But also in life-style.
WC and bidet from Starck 3 series by Duravit.
www.duravit.com

Ground floor - bathroom

The Vismara Vetro shower cabins are designed to turn your ritual daily shower
into an entirely personal, precious moment of well-being.
Replay is a program of shower cabins designed to ensure easy, ergonomic and entirely safe movements when inside them, all with a strong connotation of interior design.
www.vismaravetro.it

Ground floor - bathroom

Expression of a faultless technique, da-da is the essence of modernity. Single lever shower mixer, washbasin mixer, and bidet mixer from Zazzeri da-da collection. www.zazzeri.it

Ground floor

The sofa bed sleeps two.

Ground floor

Light, the vibrancy of energy and soul.
Light is a direct many-layered language. Foscarini interprets the forms and functions of light in various ways, without ever losing sight of its most important purpose - lighting up the rooms of your life.

The Havana mono has been designed by Jozeph Forakis / 2007
www.foscarini.com

1st floor - kitchen

1st floor - kitchen

La Marie is the world's first completely transparent chair, formed in a single polycarbonate mould. La Marie combines an essential design with an exceptionally robust and light structure to generate an intangible quality. www.kartell.it

1st floor - view

Looking through the kitchen windows

1st floor - terrace

Breakfast on the terrace.

1st floor - view

From the terrace looking at the little square by the house entrance.

2nd floor - master bedroom

The Bilove bed, a design of P. Bertolini e C. Burtscher. No metal involved at all, just wood. http://www.malofancon.com/
Latex matress from Dorelan. www.dorelan.it

Low allergen environment

La Tour Orange has been projected to create a low-allergen environment for the benefit of allergy sufferers. For the renovation work we avoided the use of harmful chemicals, all painting come from Solas, the natural painting company. There are slate and wood floors throughout. There are no dust-collecting curtains for windows. We wash pillowcases, sheets and blankets in hot water (hotter than 55°C), and we air doonas and other bedding in the sun weekly. Please also note that pets are not allowed at La tour Orange. Smoking is not allowed inside the house.

Keep cool

While the heat is on outside, your car will stay cool and safe in La Tour Orange's private garage located about 200 meters away from the house. Available from the 5th of May 2008.

Bakery/grocery shop

So handy and so delicious, the bakery/grocery shop in Fiumelatte, about 100 meters from the house. Freshly baked bread even on Sundays!

The "Platano"

You won't have to go very far to taste the good and genuine local cuisine. The “Hosteria del Platano” is located about 100 meters away from La Tour Orange! This historic restaurant in Fiumelatte, was renovated recently. It offers typical dishes from the Lake and nearby Valtellina valley. Adjacent there is a coffee shop and a small outdoor patio with a Lake vista. They also offer wifi internet connection.

The milk river

The famous Fiumelatte torrent, sited by Leonardo da Vinci, runs next to the house. It is the shortest river in Italy and one of the shortest on earth. It gashes only at certain time of the year, usually after the melting of snows (April) or after a few days of rain. The Fiumelatte (literally milk-river) has been given this name because of the "froth" aspect it has when it runs down towards the lake.

walk way

One of the two pedestrian paths that will take you from Fiumelatte to downtown Varenna in about 20 mn.

The little marina of Fiumelatte

Enjoy your stay

The city of Sophronia is made up of two half-cities. In one there is the great roller coaster with its steep humps, the carousel with its chain spokes, the Ferris wheel of spinning cages, the death-ride with crouching motorcyclists, the big top with the clump of trapezes hanging in the middle. The other half-city is of stone and marble and cement, with the bank, the factories, the palaces, the slaughterhouse, the school, and all the rest. One of the half-cities is permanent, the other is temporary, and when the period of its sojourn is over, they uproot it, dismantle it, and take it off, transplanting it to the vacant lots of another half-city.

And so every year the day comes when the workmen remove the marble pediments, lower the stone walls, the cement pylons, take down the Ministry, the monument, the docks, the petroleum refinery, the hospital, load them on trailers, to follow from stand to stand their annual itinerary. Here remains the half-Sophronia of the shooting-galleries and the carousels, the shout suspended from the cart of the headlong roller coaster, and it begins to count the months, the days it must wait before the caravan returns and a complete life can begin again.

from: The Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino


"I like to think of La Tour Orange as part of the permanent city, lively and playful. Enjoy your stay".

Jean-Pierre Coupé
owner

Useful links

Link 1: The complete story of La Tour Orange renovation project
Link 2: La Tour Orange's up-dated News & events
Link 3: A look at La Tour Orange's bookshelf
link 4: The exclusive La Tour Orange's where-to-eat guide
link 5: The blog full of ideas about what to do during your stay at La Tour Orange
link 6: We all have a responsability