fortress Borromeo of Angera lake maggiore

Fortress of Angera the castle of the lake Maggiore

The Fortress Borromeo or more comenementes called Fortress of Angera by the commune that it entertains it on his  own territory, it is a rare example of strengthened building preserved medieval integrally built on a spur of dominant calcareous rock the Most greater Lake.The imposing construction contains to its inside important testimonies of the local history retraced through the admirable cycle of frescos dating at the end of the '200 of the "Room of the Justice", of the historical Rooms and of the Tower Castellana from whose summit a wonderful panorama enjoys him of the lake maggiore , Arona, the Prealpis and the Alps. Particular also the visible seventeenth-century press in the wine merchant.

In the Castle Borromeo of Angera is entertained the Museum of the Doll and the Toy, collection more important in Europe, which an ample section is attached devoted century and a room separated by the run devoted to dolls and toys of extraeuropean origin to the French and German automatons of the XIX.

Recent it is the opening of the Medieval Garden that proposes finally, in the open space that leans out toward the Most greater Lake a medieval garden realized following studies on ancient codes, documents of epoch and images on miniated manuscripts.