The Lago Maggiore

Friday, 14 October 2011 - 01:55 pm (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination:
Category/Kategorie: General, UNESCO World Heritage
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Isola Bella - Borromean Islands © Mbdortmund

Isola Bella – Borromean Islands © Mbdortmund

Lake Maggiore is a large lake located on the south side of the Alps. It is the second largest of Italy and largest of southern Switzerland. Lake Maggiore is the most westerly of the three great prealpine lakes of Italy, it extends for about 70 km between Locarno and Arona. The climate is mild in both summer and winter, producing Mediterranean vegetation, with beautiful gardens growing rare and exotic plants. Well-known gardens include those of the Isola Madre, Isola Bella and the Isole di Brissago, that of the Villa Taranto in Verbania, and the Alpinia botanical garden above Stresa.

Lake Maggiore is 68 km long, with a breadth which varies from 3 to 5 km, except at the bay opening westward between Pallanza and Stresa, where this reaches 10 km. It exceeds all the other Italian lakes in length, but in the extent of surface it falls considerably below the Lake Garda. Its mean height above the sea level is 193 metres; but as its depth greatly exceeds that measurement, the bed is almost everywhere considerably below the sea-level, and reaches no less than 179 metres below the sea. Its form is very sinuous, so that there are few points from which any considerable part of its surface can be seen at a single glance. If this lessens the effect of the apparent size, it increases the variety of its scenery. While the upper end is completely alpine in character, the middle region lies between hills of gentler form, and the lower end advances to the verge of the plain of Lombardy.

Ascona - Via Borgo © Arno Konings - schweiz-bilder.ch Verbania Intra © Corradox Town of Stresa © Coolcaesar Porto Valtravaglia © Ogrizzo Porto Valtravaglia, seen from the mountains of Brezzo di Bedero © Corradox Locarno - Piazza Grande © Riessdo Levo above Stresa © Markus Bernet Laveno Panorama © Alessandro Vecchi Hydrofoil 'Lord Byron' © Louis Bafrance From Caldè to Mottarone and Verbania © Corradox Cannero Riviera © Markus Bernet Ascona - Street market © Ashleigh Nushawg Ascona Panorama © BMK Ascona in front, with Locarno in the background © Michael Gredenberg Arona Panorama © Alessandro Vecchi Angera Castle-Varese, seen from the tower across the castle gardens to the lake and Arona © Wolfgang Sauber Lake Maggiore sunrise © Roberto Zanon Lake Maggiore, seen from Incella above Brissago © Markus Bernet Lake Maggiore and the Alps, seen from Poggio Sant'Elsa © Alessandro Vecchi Map of Lake Maggiore © Ian Spackman Isola Bella - Borromean Islands © Mbdortmund
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Angera Castle-Varese, seen from the tower across the castle gardens to the lake and Arona © Wolfgang Sauber
The lake’s jagged banks are surrounded by the Lepontine Alps. The western bank is in Piedmont (provinces of Novara and Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola) and the eastern in Lombardy (province of Varese), whereas the most northerly section extends thirteen kilometres into the canton of Ticino, where it constitutes its lowest point above sea-level as well as that of Switzerland.

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