Built by Axel Munthe (1857–1949), who served as the Swedish royal physician and wrote the best-selling memoir The Story of San Michele , Munthe’s Hildasholm is a sumptuously decorated National Romantic–style mansion, set in beautiful gardens with stunning views over Lake Siljan. Munthe built it for his second wife, an English aristocrat, in 1910–11; Munthe himself rarely visited the mansion as he spent most of his time attending to Queen Viktoria on the island of Capri.
