Stresa The Pearl of Lake Maggiore Stresa, also known as “The Pearl of Lake Maggiore” is one of the most exclusive spots of lake Maggiore. Enjoy a walking along the magnificient lakeside and let yourself be enchanted by the perfumes of the flowers that decorates the lakefront, admire an incredible panorama over the Borromean Gulf…
And the Landscape Museum Verbania-Pallanza and the Landscape Museum Tired of modern life? Come to Pallanza and go for a ride on the Time Machine. When you’ll rich the lakeside, suddenly you’ll feel like entering a nineteenth-century picture. You could almost get a feeling of seeing noblemen with bowlers and sticks and ladies with hoop…
The “Cava Madre” of Candoglia-Mergozzo The “Cava Madre”, literally “the Mother Quarry”, is where the Duomo of Milan was born. Not only a pun. A guided visit at the “Cava” will make you discover how the Mountain moved to the city and became a Cathedral. The heavy marble, coming out from the deep of the…
The “Boulder Altar” of Alpe Prà – Cicogna (VB) Maybe an altar for human sacrifices in the moonless night. Creepy, isn’t it? A less grisly theory thinks about a star map which represents constellations in the warm summer sky. The truth is: nobody knows. This boulder, with more than thirty cup shaped incisions, stands over…
The scented fields of “Erba Böna” Your nose will guide you in this itinerary. Follow the scent, starting from the sunny lawns on the Lake, farmed with mint and lavender, and arriving at the hidden glades among mountains were “genepy” and gentian grow. In Verampio, a little hamlet of Crodo in Formazza Valley, you can…
Villa Toeplitz – Varese Villa Toeplitz was built in 1901 by the German Hannesen family, was then bought by the Polish banker Giuseppe Toeplitz in 1914 and took its name from this family. Located on a panoramic area, near the Holy Mount, it is surrounded by magnificent gardens and is a cultural heritage of inestimable…
, the Arcumeggia, the painted village at Lake Maggiore Between the towns of Rancio Valcuvia and Porto Valtravaglia there is a small village known as “The Painted Village”, Arcumeggia, not far from Lake Maggiore. From 1956 Arcumeggia was chosen to host “Painters on vacation” festival, a special occasion for emerging artists that decided to paint…
Lake Mergozzo One of the most romantic lakes of Italy So, were you thinking of knowing everything about Piedmont lakes, weren’t you? Sorry… you were wrong! You missed the prettiest: Lake Mergozzo. It is a little “shy”, hidden between the bigger ones Maggiore and Orta. And it is the younger: only five century ago it…
The Painted Walls of Legro Are you used to bore your parents and friends with old and unknown movies coming from the Far East? Do you usually spend your time watching silent movies in the middle of the night? So, don’t miss a walk around the streets of Legro, a little village just behind the…
The “Love Path” – Ispra Romantic spots on lake Maggiore On the oriental shore of Lake Maggiore, where Mount Prete and Nassi form a valley, they create a very romantic and suggestive promontory… the “Love Path” of Ispra! The walk begins in Ispra along the lakeside and continues to the “Punta” furnaces, where a small…
