Villa Troubetzkoy

This very special villa, by the waters edge near the city of Blevio, was Built by the Russian Prince Troubetzkoy in 1850. It’s a curious villa-chalet, that the prince build as a place where he could escape a sentence to hard labor camp, for his attempted insurrection against Zar Nicholas I.

For the similarity of his name and the large amount of dynamite used to flatten the steep rocks to create the space needed to build the house, the villa was dubbed “turbascogli” (destroyer of rocks) by the locals.

Il principe russo Troubetzkoy, per fuggire ad una condanna ai lavori forzati per tentata insurrezione contro lo zar Nicola I, costruì a Blevio, nel 1850, una curiosa villa-chalet.

Per l’assonanza del nome e la grande quantità di dinamite utilizzata per creare tra le rocce scoscese della riva lo spazio necessario per poter edificare la dimora, il nobile fu soprannominato dalla popolazione locale il “turbascogli”.