Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Isola Bella (lit. 'beautiful island') is one of the Borromean islands of Lake Maggiore in Northern Italy. The island is situated in the Borromean Gulf 400 metres from the lakeside town of Stresa . Isola Bella is 320 metres long by 400 metres wide and is divided between the Palace, its Italianate garden , and a small fishing village.
Isola Bella (Sicilian: Ìsula Bedda) is a small island near Taormina, Sicily, southern Italy. Also known as The Pearl of the Ionian Sea , it is located within a small bay on the Ionian Sea ; it was a private property, for a time owned by Florence Trevelyan , until 1990, when it was bought by the Region of Sicily, being turned into a nature ...
Their name derives from the Borromeo family, which started acquiring them in the early 16th century (Isola Madre) and still owns the majority of them (Isola Madre, Bella, San Giovanni) today. Isola Bella, named for Isabella, countess Borromeo, was originally a largely barren rock; after first improvements and buildings, opened by count Carlo ...
The islands have beautiful gardens. Two of the islands have grand palaces, still owned by the family. Vitaliano Borromeo built a summer palace on the Isola Bella for his wife Isabella between 1650 and 1671 which was later enlarged by Cardinal Giberto III (1615–1672) and Count Vitaliano VI (1620–1690). Count Carlo IV (1657–1734) had the ...
Isola Bella (Lago Maggiore), one of the Borromean islands of Lago Maggiore, near Stresa Isola Bella (Sicily) , island off the east coast of Sicily, near Taormina United States
The Isola Bella, below Taormina. In 1890 she purchased the Isola Bella, a small rocky island below the town of Taormina, attached to the mainland by a narrow sandy path, on which she built a house and established a garden. In among the native Mediterranean plants she planted non-native trees, rare shrubs and grasses.
Just look at this island. Clear, blue water, beautiful skies ... it looks peaceful, right? It's called Isola La Gaiola, made up of two small islands in the Gulf of Naples connected by a small ...
Isola Madre, at 220 m wide and 330 m long, is the largest island of the Isole Borromee archipelago is in the Italian part of Lake Maggiore in the Alps, in the Province of Verbano Cusio Ossola, Piedmont. The island is occupied by a number of buildings and architectural structures and is known for its gardens.