Isola Bella Gardens

The gardens on Isola Bella, Picturesque Italian Gardens
Today Isola Bella is one of the most important sights on Lake Maggiore, which can be reached by boat from Baveno or Stresa. If you intend to take a boat trip, you should plan a tour of the local gardens and the palace. The picturesque Italian gardens consist of a tenfold stepped terrace, which is laid out in the shape of a truncated pyramid. These gardens are not only decorated with mythological and allegorical statues, fountains, obelisks, exedra and nymphaeans. Cedars, camellias, azaleas, rhododendrons, laurel and conifers, magnolias as well as orange and lemon trees are just some of the plants that thrive in the garden of Isola Bella. All terraces together form a semicircle, which is also known as a "theater" due to its shape. In the center of this semicircle is the statue of a unicorn and a coat of arms of the Borromeo family. In addition, you will not miss how art and natural statues and other stone figures with a mythological background enrich the Italian gardens of Isola Bella. Be there when white peacocks strut through the gardens. These animals are a rarity.
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The Isola Bella is an amazing place, thanks to the ever-recurring flowering of flowers and the inestimable art treasures that merge together in a harmonious microcosm. After transforming from a rock into a flower garden, today the island now looks like a ship gliding through the blue waters of Lake Maggiore, as was the intention of its creator, Vitaliano VI Borromeo.

Even if one does not suspect it at first glance, Lake Maggiore actually hides a well-known world wonder. The Isola Bella was during the 18th century as a wonder of the world, in the reign of Carlo III. Borromeo has been sustainably influenced. Once the island was mainly lined with rocks. Carlo III. Borromeo gave the island the typical form of a ship.