Travel Reference
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Lago Maggiore Express
The
Lago Maggiore Express
(
www.lagomaggioreexpress.com
; 1 day adult/reduced €26/13, 2 day
€33.60/16.80)
is a picturesque day trip done under your own steam. It includes train
travel from Arona or Stresa to Domodossola, from where you get the charming
Centovalli (Hundred Valleys) train to Locarno in Switzerland and a ferry back to
Stresa. Tickets are available from Navigazione Lago Maggiore booths at each port.
Drinking
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Grand Hotel des Iles Borromées
PIANO BAR
After a stint on the Italian front in 1918, Ernest Hemingway checked himself into
Stresa's Grand Hotel, where he wrote the antiwar novel
A Farewell to Arms
. You
may not be able to afford a room here - guests have included Princess Margaret
and the Vanderbilts - but you can always slug back a Manhattan on the terrace.
(
032 93 89 38;
www.borromees.it
;
Corso Umberto I, 67, Stresa;
6pm-late;
Stresa)
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La Bottiglieria del Castello
ENOTECA
OFFLINE MAP
Sample mountain cheeses with a glass of Dolcetto in the pretty piazza at Intra
Verbania. You'll be upholding a proud tradition, started in 1905 when sister res-
taurant Osteria Castello served tumblers of wine to millworkers and fishermen
who came here to catch up on the daily news.
(
0323 51 65 79;
www.osteriacastello.com
;
Piazza Castello 9, Intra Verbania;
Mon-Sat;
Verbania)
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Caffé dell'Arte
CAFE-BAR
