Weekend Lake Maggiore - Weekend Hotel Lake Maggiore
Lake Maggiore is a paradise for your weekend and for certain
type sof activities. Walking, hiking and golfing are three that
immediately come to mind. There is also the opportunity to swim
in the Lake, windsurf, boating, play tennis, go off road cycling
and horse riding. The secret however is knowing where to go
and how to ask for it. Des Iles Borromees Golf course is a T
testing 18 holes lie at 500m above sea level. Following the
natural terrain and the lush vegetation of the hills above Lake
Maggiore. The course is more a test of accuracy than distance
while the back 9 holes offer stunning views over the lake. If
you wish to trek over to Lake Como you can experience the famous
Menaggio and Cadenabbia golf course.
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.
To the tourist, who for the first time arrives in Stresa, is
offered a breathless sight. At the beginning a superb window
of the lake front, delineated with lines of palm trees, with
flourishing gardens and facades of majestic hotels. Then, turning
to look at the lake, enchanted, as if emerged from the same
waters the spectacular Borromean Islands (Isola Bella, Isola
Madre and Isola dei Pescatori). It is enough the splendour of
these visions to make one understand how Stresa has been able
to become one of the maximum meetings of international tourism.
The town, already at the middle half of Lungolago di Stresa
the 19th century was the most elegant place to stay, the most
visited by the international upper middle class. Others again
are the reasons of so much fame and prestige. Here art and nature
are mixed together in a way that one respects the other, here
the hospitality is to boast to generation and the cultural initiative,
that happens in the course of the year, they are the necessary
corollary of it.
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.
