Getaway around Italy's great lakes
2024
Highlights of the trip
During your stay you can enjoy the following highlights: Culture / Heritage, Faune and flora, Discovery, Free time, Relaxation / Well-being.
Best times to go
The best time(s) to go is/are : Printemps, Eté, Automne.
Petit Futé
Where to stay - Stresa ?
The map of your stay "Getaway around Italy's great lakes"
Detail of the stay : Getaway around Italy's great lakes
How to get there - Stresa
Lake Maggiore
Steps: Isola Dei Pescatori
Discover the western shore of Lake Maggiore. Stresa, the best-known resort, then Baveno, where you'll visit the park of Villa Taranto and its superb botanical garden featuring an important collection of exotic plants. Then on to the Borromean islands: Isola dei Pescatori, and Isola Bella for its sumptuous Italian gardens.
Lake Orta
Steps: Cannero Riviera
Leave Lake Maggiore for Cannero Riviera, a health resort whose houses are planted amidst vineyards, orange, lemon and olive groves. Adjacent to the resort are the ruins of the Castles della Malpaga. Then, on to the smallest and most graceful of Lombardy's lakes: Orta. From Orta, you can take a boat to the island of San Giulio.
