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Isola dei Pescatori (meaning Fishermen's Island) is an island in Lake Maggiore in northern Italy. As the most northerly of the three principal Borromean Islands it is also known as Isola Superiore and, with a population of 25 in 2018, it is the only one to be inhabited all year round. Unlike Isola Bella and Isola Madre, the island has never ...
Isola Madre, the largest of the three, is also noted for its gardens, which have been maintained since about 1823 in an English style. Its palace, though uninhabited, is splendidly furnished with 16th- to 19th-century Italian masterpieces and paintings. Isola dei Pescatori or Isola Superiore is now the only inhabited island in the archipelago ...
Hotel Belvédère in 1983, during its first closure, from 1980 to 1990. Hotel Belvédère in 2004 Hotel Belvédère and the Muttgletscher in 2007 Hôtel Belvédère in 2009 In 2017, the Belvédère Hotel was closed again (since 2015) View of the location of the Hotel Belvédère on the Furka Pass (2018) Hôtel Belvédère in 2019 Hotel Belvédère in 1910 On the right the hotel, in 1919 ...
Brissago Islands. The Brissago Islands (Italian: Isole di Brissago) are a group of two islands located in the Swiss part of Lake Maggiore close to Ronco sopra Ascona and Brissago. Both islands belong to the district of Locarno, in the canton of Ticino. San Pancrazio (also known as Grande Isola) is larger and is well known for its botanical ...
Isolino Partegora. Coordinates: 45°46′8″N 8°34′40″E. View of the Angera gulf. Isolino Partegora (known locally as Isulin) is an islet situated at the centre of the gulf of Angera on Lago Maggiore, the only island on the lake to fall within the Italian region Lombardy. Most of the shoreline consists of marshy cane thickets, although ...
Attested by the name Ispira (712), Ispira (XIV). Appears as Ispratium in Aegidius Tschudi's Beschreibung Galliae Comatae. [4] According to Gaudenzio Merula the origin of the name could lie onto the rocky nature of this landscape; Hisprum quasi asperum ob saxorum difficultates, [5] that is to say equivalent to the Latin hispida (cf. hispid and ispido) and related to the Provençal ispre with ...
Cannero Riviera ( [càn-ne-ro]; in Western Lombard Càner), is a comune (an Italian municipality) with a population of 973 and an area of 14.46 square kilometres (5.58 sq mi) in the Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola in the Italian region of Piedmont. The settlement is situated on the western shore of Lago Maggiore; it is about 130 kilometres (81 ...
Isolino di San Giovanni. The Isolino di San Giovanni is a small island belonging to the Borromean group of Lake Maggiore, one of the main subalpine lakes of northern Italy. It is situated some way to the north of the others in the group, 30 metres west of the shoreline of Pallanza, a frazione of Verbania. It is part of the frazione Pallanza.