Borromean Islands, Stresa boat trip islands Lake Maggiore

Borromean Islands, Stresa Lake Maggiore

Stresa indissolubly melts his  own name with that of the gulf before Borromeo in which the homonym Borromean Islands are found with their buildings and gardens. In front of the city the island Bella is found note for her gardens to the Italian and anciently note as "inferior island."

The ownership was purchased in Six hundred by Charles III Borromeo that it gave her the name of his their wife, Isabella of Adda. The pomp of the building, the gardens and the ten overlapped terrazzamentis, the saloon of the parties, the maximum theater, the mysterious caves devoted to animals and sea flowers, the room of the music and the room of the weapons make the noble building only representing a casket of art and culture that he ees every year thousand of visitors. The garden to the Italian is embellished by games of water and by statues realized in Six hundred by Charles Simonetta.

The Borromeos entertained many characters really in their ownerships in the gulf of the Most greater Lake.

The building was appreciated by Napoleone Bonaparte that it has a room to it devoted in 1797 stays memory.

In 1935 to Stresa an important international lecture and Mussolini it was met Laval and Mac Donald in the Room of the music of the Building.

In the gulf Borromeo, the Mother island with his  building of the XVI century and his precious porcelains of House Borromeos welcome the visitor in a pompous environment and of rare beauty. On the island a botanical garden develops him (nineteenth-century Gardens to the English) with hundreds of variety of plain and flowers coming from the whole world. And' here that the first camellia of the most greater lake and the imposing cypress of the Kashmir it is found. The island Fishermen it has the heart in the Romanesque church of S.Vittore built in 1300 and embellished nel'500 with a fresco of S.Agata and two wooden busts devoted to S.Pietro and Andre, patrons of the fishermen, that, really on the island that he/she takes the name from them they had important activities.

Suggested itineraries and Boat trip:

Through our tour will accompany visitors to the discovery the wonders of the three Borromean Islands: Mother Island,Beautiful island and Fisherman island.

Itinerary: Stresa - Mother Island - Fisherman Island - Beautiful Island and return

Duration: about 5 hours - having lunch with traditional dishes and local guide.

Different emotions, but always remember: the navigation of Lake Maggiore and the Borromean Islands in particular with the stop at the beautiful island to visit the Palazzo Borromeo, the Italian style garden and the little old town is definitely a must-skip

We also offer a visit to the island mother of his spectacular botanical garden and museum housed in the internal use of marionettes without forgetting an obligatory stop on the enchanting island of fishermen

Here in addition to visiting the old board and its quaint old town is a must for a small gastronomic experience you can relax and enjoy all the lake saporri more in harmony with the landscape that surrounds you.