ost of the time, the most beautiful things happen by chance,” says Valentina De Santis, owner and heiress to many of Lake Como’s most prestigious properties, including its grande dame: the majestic Art Nouveau marvel that is the Grand Hotel Tremezzo. It was by chance that her parents were boating past the village of Moltrasio and the celebrated Passalacqua villa one day when they discovered it was about
