In the park, the Convention Centre, designed by the architect Mario Bellini, with its glass and steel architecture, and inspired by the design of the old Larian greenhouses, creates a perfect balance between history, elegance and innovation. The building, with its over 10,000 square-meter area, consists of a circular pavilion and three different wings: Lario, Cernobbio and Regina, which can host more than 500 stands; it also features 28 meeting rooms, with a capacity of 50 to 1,500 seats.

The central pavilion structure has been designed for the hosting of large events (up to 1500 participants). Its circular structure is characterized by excellent acoustics can host not only national and international conventiones, conventions, large conferences and films, but also shows, concerts and DJ sets until late at night, upon request. The three side wings can host conference rooms, conference buffets and rooms for business negotiations.

Each wing can be used independently to meet the needs of each customer in terms of space and service. The side windows of the central pavilion can be totally opened, and allow for the display and presentation of products of considerable dimensions. All the windows can be completely dimmed for perfect video projection, presentations or special effects.

Villa Erba, an architectural jewel built in the late nineteenth century, was the holiday residence of the Erba family. Here, the great film director Luchino Visconti spent many summers, and the rooms of the villa inspired the scenery of some of his famous masterpieces.

The villa, with its frescoes, preciously carved ceilings and mannerist-inspired rooms, is nowadays the perfect venue to host unique events.

In the historical Villa, prestige and worldliness coexist in total harmony: it can host both formal conferences and the most glamorous parties, and thanks its position the music can go on until late night.

Originally a monastery, Villa Erba was bought by the Peluso family, who already owned the neighbouring Villa d'Este.
The ownership then passed to Luigi Erba, Carlo Erba's brother and heir, one of the major pharmaceutical manufacturers of that period, who had a villa built to represent his family's status and prestige.

The project was entrusted to the two most popular architects of the moment: Angelo Savoldi and Giambattista Borsani. In those years, the Erba family hosted great artists, and in life the villa was culturally and socially intense.

Inherited by her daughter Carla, who married in Cernobbio the Duke Giuseppe Visconti di Modrone, the Villa the summer holiday's home of their son, the film director Luchino Visconti.

Villa Erba's centuries-old park is a living part of the exhibition complex: a rich botanical patrimony, with various species of rare, exotic and centuries-old ornamental plants, embracing the old Villa and the Serre. In each season, the vegetation offers suggestive glimpses, some of which directly overlooking the lake, with ever different shades of colour throughout the year.

In the area surrounding the Convention Centre, you can admire the American Maple (Acer negundo), introduced in Europe in 1688; the Indian horse-chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum), used both as an ornamental plant in the avenues and in groups, to create fresh, shaded areas; the Himalayan cedar (Cedrus deodara), which originated in the western slopes of the famous Asian peak; the Lawson Cypress (Chamaecyparis lawsoniana), originally from the United States, already used in Italy for the reforestation of some southern rural areas; and the common beech or Western beech (Fagus sylvatica).
Among the shrubs, there is the Ligustro (Ligustrum japonica / Ligustrum ovalifolium), already mentioned by Virgil and by the Roman naturalist Gaio Plinio Secondo: its common name is privet or olivella. Then, you can smell the scent of the evergreen Osmanthus (Osmanthus fragrans) that comes from China and Japan. But the most striking beauty certainly belongs to the great magnolias (Magnolia grandiflora) which punctually give the park an abundant and showy flowering, with colours that vary from one species to the other.

As evidence of the great variety of species and orders, there is also the Holly (Ilex aquifolium), also known as Butcher's broom; its leaves are shiny dark green, with a variety of white, cream or variegated yellow, and it has fruits that offer a decorative contrast. Among the shrubs we find the crape myrtle (Lagerstroemia indica), a small tree originating from south-eastern China and growing spontaneously also in Java, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia. Between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a fascination for the exotic countries ever present in the stately homes, and a park rich in species from distant lands expresses a cultural and genuine interest for new, unknown worlds.

Also the laurel (Laurus nobilis), a very well-known aromatic and officinal plant, a metaphor of honour and nobility, which, perfectly pruned, grows in perfect harmony with all the elements of the landscape.
Finally, two species that are particularly linked to our territory: the spruce (Picea excels), a tree of the Pinaceae family, widespread in the Alps and throughout Europe which, with its straight trunk and conical crown, can reach a forty-meter height; and the aspen (Populus tremula), a robust tree that can reach up to three / four meters in diameter, and a height of 25 meters.