Giovedi 3 Settembre 2015
Many thanks to Penny for her beautiful photos|
Isola Bella in the Borromean Gulf of Lago Maggiore, the 'Greatest Lake',
with its towering backdrop of mountains.
with its towering backdrop of mountains.
Me on the promenade of Lago Maggiore on another glorious sunny, warm day - bellissimo!
Surely Stresa could not be as beautiful and charming as Bellagio? How wrong could we be!
After settlng in to our hotel room, we walked into the centre of town, about 1.3 km along a lovely pathway overlooking the lake - such beautiful views of the mountains, and especially the three small isola - Bella, Madre and Pescatori, surprisingly close to short - these are what we have come to see!
Stresa boasts many very grand hotels along its lake front, including the 5 star luxury Grand Hotel des Iles Borremèes, immortilised in Ernest Hemingway's 'Farewell to Arms', which he wrote after staying at the hotel while recovering from a war wound.
The hotel's grand fontana.
The gorgeous fontana delle ninfe dei continenti - every hour, the fountains at the base of the 4 white marble statues (Africa, America, Asia and Europe) spring to life to music for several minutes.
The next day, we went to the small market in a piazza in the town centre - very similar to the market we went to at Lenno last week - selling food, flowers, leather goods, jewellery, clothing and household items for sale!
We were finished at the market by 11.30, and since the weather was so gorgeous and the forecast for Saturday was for clouds and rain, we decided to visit the Borromea Islands for which Stresa is much visited and enjoyed.
See the next blogpost!
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