Lake Maggiore & Lake D'Orta, Italy

White Peacock on Isola Bella 
- Lake Maggiore, Italy

Restaurant on Isola Bella - Lake Maggiore, Italy

Grand Hotel where Hemingway
Wrote A Farewell to Arms 
- Stresa, Italy

Statue of Artist - Lake D'Orta, Italy

Lake Maggiore & Lake D'Orta, Italy (7/12/2009) - Spectacularly beautiful! These photos tell the story better than we can tell it.

A day trip by bus from Menaggio on Lake Como took us to Lake Maggiore and Lake D’Orta visiting the incredibly remarkable Isola Bella, Palazzo Borromeo, and the village of Stresa.

Lake Maggiore is the second largest lake in Italy located on the south side of the Alps. The climate is mild in both summer and winter, producing Mediterranean vegetation, with beautiful gardens growing rare and exotic plants.

Lake Maggiore, Italy

Palazzo Borromeo on Isola Bella 
- Lake Maggiore, Italy

Wayne & Pat at Palazzo Borromeo 
on Isola Bella - Lake Maggiore, Italy

Palazzo Borromeo 
- Isola Bella, Lake Maggiore, Italy

White Peacock 
at Palazzo Borromeo, 
Lake Maggiore, Italy

Palazzo Borromeo on the island of Isola Bella in Lake Maggiore is considered by many to be the most beautiful gardens in Italy - don’t miss it if you go. We were blown away with the white peacocks (see photos). Baroque palaces and works of art preside over 10 tiers of lavish terraced gardens - just amazing!

The upscale town of Stresa on Lake Maggiore has the 19th-century Grand Hotel des Iles Borromees where Hemingway wrote his 1929 novel A Farewell to Arms while recovering from war wounds. 

The smaller peaceful town of Orta San Giulio on Lake D’Orta is also very nice.

For more about this wonderful Lake District of Italy, please see our 3 other blog posts:

Italy Lake Como Menaggio Bellagio Living Around the Lake

Italy Lake Como Villas Villages

Italy Lake District Gardens

Please see our other 4 posts on wonderful Italy:

Venice, Italy - My Favorite City in the World

Pompeii, Naples, Pomero, & Taormina, Italy

Bologna, Italy

Verona, Italy

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Write by: AN - Sunday, July 26, 2009