Lake Maggiore Hotels - Verbania Stresa Lake Maggiore Hotels

Welcome to Lake Maggiore, or Lago Maggiore part of the stunning Italian Lakes, situated on the edge the Italian Alps. Maggiore is the one of the most popular lakes and has a number of very popular towns crossing the border between between Italy and Switzerland.

Lake Maggiore is accessible in may ways. By car, by plane, by coach or train!
Most of the towns around the Lake are connected by ferry, road or train. There are are airports close at hand as well. Lake Maggiore's visitors are from all over the world and good connections are vital. First remember that Lake Maggiore is in both Italy and Switzerland. So consider where you are going and where you are coming from.

Lake Maggiore, repository of the wealth and cultural patrimony left by the Borromeo family, is still testimony to their prestige and refinement which can be seen in their magnificent island palazzi with their impressive Italian gardensIsola Bella - Lago Maggiore, and the imposing Fortress of Angera.
The lake should be seen from the lake, and from the lake time seems to have stood still. The Monastery of Santa Caterina clinging to the rocky cliff; Stresa and the Borromeo Islands, small in size but rich in history, and the Castles of Cannero, island outpost of the Mazzarditi Brothers, infamous pirates of the Verbano, are just a few of the timeless examples awaiting the visitor.

The park of this 5 five star hotel in Lake Maggiore was established at the same time as the Grand Hotel, in 1863. From contemporary illustrations and lithographs, one immediately realizes what the clients (the Omarini brothers) and the designer (the architect Antonio Polli) had in mind: in front of the incomparable sight of the Borromean islands, they wanted to create a parterre of flowerbeds set in the Italian style. These flowerbeds had to be laid out beyond the street of Sempione as well, in the garden of the landing stage constructed on an embankment by the lake.

The Grand Hotel is one of the most charming 5 star hotels in Lake Maggiore. It has repeatedly been enlarged and since the early 20th century has its present appearance. At the same time the park has adapted to frequent adjustments, although certain peculiarities remain. Among those worth mentioning are the fashionable quarters to the east, the greenhouses and storage rooms to the west (an area currently used as the Residenza del Parco and Sporting), an area to the south set in the English manner with small detached houses and outbuildings and, as a poster of the time read, “a huge park and garden with tennis and croquet courts”.