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Lake Maggiore & Around
Why Go?
Italy's second-largest lake, Maggiore is one of Europe's more graceful corners. Arrayed
around the lakeshore is a series of pretty towns (Stresa, Verbania, Cannobio and, on the
Swiss side of the border, Locarno) and these serve as gateways to gorgeous Maggiore is-
lands. Behind the towns, wooded hillsides rise, strewn with decadent villas, lush botanical
gardens and even the occasional castle. Further still from the lakeshore but not as far as you
might think, the snow-capped peaks of Switzerland provide the perfect backdrop, and idyll-
ic vantage points over the lake are many - from the breakfast terrace of your lakeside hotel
to the eyries reached by cable car from Locarno, Laveno and Stresa. And fabulous detours
await, whether into the high valleys from the northern end of the lake or to Orta San Giulio
to the southwest, one of the region's most beguiling villages.
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