Actually absolutely nothing can prepare you for the first meeting with the stunning Lake Maggiore in Italy.
Lake Maggiore (Lake Maggiore) is alpine lake of glacial origin and it is second in size of the lakes in Italy. The lake was not generally a tourist attraction until 1906, when the Simplon Tunnel in the Alps enabled access to Orient Express.
So literally overnight began the coast, to fill with the members of the European elite, which started to develop magnificent properties. Some are still inhabited, but some are now abandoned and almost in a state of ruin.
Stresa, the city, nevertheless "stuck" in a bygone era, and it was extended the unofficial capital of the West coast of the lake. With big hotels in the baroque style, whose façade could very easily filled to serve as a backdrop for some of the operas of Puccini.
Most of all is the Grand Hotel des Iles Borromées who is recognized for her massive crystal chandeliers. This is where he lived, then 19-year-old Ernest Hemingway during the recovery from the wounds he had received on the Italian front. A single of the first palaces in Stresa belonged to the noble family Borromeo and Italian is on the island of Isola Bella (Borromean Islands) ten minute boat ride away
Another extraordinary destination to which you can arrive by boat, is Isola Superiore or Isola dei Pescatori, Fischerinsel you walking on foot 10 minutes, but this hike for confident you will not neglect. Lake Maggiore is overwhelming and stretches from Locarno in Switzerland, so that if you search the surrounding location will certainly want at least ten days, and but in no time you will would be bored. The lake lies at an altitude of about 193 meters, its location is 212 square kilometers, of which about 80 per cent in Italy and the remaining 20 % in Switzerland. The volume of the lake is situated 170 km, 54 km extended, the largest width is 10 km, and the average 3.9 kilometers. Maximum depth of 370 meters is Maggiore.
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