DD Support Board and Research Team

[shajandr]

Integral,

I stayed at the Villa Serbelloni (the estate at the top of the hill in Bellagio). My room was in a villa on Lake Como with the window looking straight down into the lake.

The Villa is owned by the Rockefeller Foundation and you get to stay there by invitation only. I was an invited member for a WHO conference being held there and funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and WHO/UN.

I stayed there for 5 days - all paid. Meals and the conference (about 20 of us total) were held at the main villa at the top of the hill. Every morning the white van would come down to our lodgings and pick us up for breakfast and drive us up the hill to the Villa. It was all part of the estate - with olive trees and grape vines all the way up the hill.

NOTE: This is NOT the Grande Hotel Serbelloni! It is a separate private estate owned by Rockefeller.

http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/bellagio-center
The Bellagio Center, also known as "Villa Serbelloni", is situated above the small town of Bellagio, Italy on 50 hilly acres of park and garden. Bellagio is located on Lake Como approximately 75 km (47 miles) north of Milan.

The food was outstanding - they have a top chef running the shop there.

And it (and the trip) was entirely free to me, thanks to the Rockefeller Foundation.

Those UN schmucks do live quite the lifestyle of the rich and famous, I must say.

It was a blast!