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ItalianoBotanical gardens of Lake Maggiore bloom again!
The official beginning of a new Lake Maggiore tourist season is programmed in spring together with the opening of its world wide known attractions, that is the botanical gardens.
The elegant Borromeo Islands (Isola Bella and Isola Madre) will open with their gardens and palaces on March 26th for their 2011 Spring-Summer Season.
Info: www.borromeoturismo.it.
Not only. In Verbania-Pallanza the beautiful Villa Taranto and its 20.000 plant and flower varieties can’t be missed from March to October.
In the villa the unique Tulip Exhibition is organized every year too.
Info: www.villataranto.it.
Otherwise come to the Villa Pallavicino in Stresa and discover its many plants and animals – 40 species among mammals and exotic birds - in its nice park on the hill gentle slope.
For children and families an area pic-nic and a play-ground complete the park offer.
Opening from March to October.
Info: www.parcozoopallavicino.it.
If you like to observe and better know the Alps vegetal species that populate our valleys, try to visist the 40.000 sm of the Botanical Garden Alpinia on the hills above Stresa.
You could reach it by car following the route to the Mount Mottarone, on foot from the lake-shore or by the Cable-Way Stresa-Mottarone (departure from Lido di Carciano, an area just after the centre of Stresa, and intermediate stop in Alpino village).
A natural balcony on the lake and the islands waits for you.
Info: www.giardinoalpinia.it.
Finally several flower companies in the Provinces of Novara (for instance, on the Vergante Hills above Lake Maggiore) and Verbano-Cusio-Ossola (i.e. in Verbania-Fondotoce, Lake Maggiore) are associated to the “Consorzio Fiori Tipici del Lago Maggiore”, which represents an administrative body as well as the official brand with which the camelia, the rododendron and the azalea are identified.
Shopping opportunities are also enough after you visits!
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Historical events
Methane was first discovered and isolated by Alessandro Volta as he analysed marsh gas from Lake Maggiore, between 1776 and 1778.
In 1936, a Bugatti Type 22 Brescia Roadster, built 1925, was sunk in the lake by employees of Zurich architect Marco Schmucklerski, when Swiss custom officials investigated whether he had paid taxes on the car. The Bugatti was attached to an iron chain making it possible to recover it once the investigation was over, yet that never happened. When the chain corroded, the car sunk to the lake bed, where it was rediscovered on 18 August 1967 by local diver Ugo Pillon and became a favourite target for divers thereafter. When one of the divers, Damiano Tamagni, was killed in a hold-up on 1 February 2008, his friends from the Ascona divers' club decided to lift and sell the carwreck to raise funds for a yet to be created foundation named after the victim. The remains of the Bugatti were recovered on 12 July 2009. The sale took place at the Retro Mobile classic car exhibition in Paris on 23 January 2010. It was sold for 260,500 euros. Roy
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