The picturesque village of Orta San Giulio on Lake Orta is an absolute must address if I am friends or relative had visited. Many of the attractions here on Lake Maggiore give me for years and not more, I - like the gardens of Villa Taranto - absolutely never visited. But I think Orta romantic, [...]

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More than seven years have made me the lights of this Italian Alpensees forever lured to its shores in an area, which is a eloquent friend of mine once "as a place meant that people living here" (a place meant for people to live) , Described. The 66 km long and up to 10 km wide, fjord-like [...]

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After 4 days duration lush rain - November is rainy season here in the Southern Alps - but then ventured to the sun and left shortly before imply that the late here on "my" quite fantastic sea can be. You just have to keep her eyes open. The mountains above Gravellona days have been covered with snow, which is [...]

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Yesterday evening as the Italian national team Played in the European Championship qualifying game against Scotland's arms in the rainy night sky of Glasgow Hampden Park lifted, went through Italian bars and livingroom a sigh of relief from inflated cheeks and a thousand times to the same gesture in the right Vehemently hand bent from right to left. will be shaken. [...]

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I'm here this summer, I liebgewordene areas here on Lake Maggiore with the motorcycle rediscover, especially the panoramic roads in the Alpine valleys of the Val d'Ossola and the side valleys of Lake Maggiore. So last weekend the King's stage to Alpe Devero, Verbania out on the highway (toll free) in the direction of Simplon / Sempione and behind Domodossola [...]

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The area around Lake Maggiore offers a myriad of proposals for the Tour bikers and while the obvious trip on the shore road around the lake in the summer usually means permanent traffic jam (optional, depending on time of day, even with the races in Switzerland working commuters) found in the adjoining mountainous enough beautiful trails with fantastic views and [...]

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