Time a vacation idea. For several years there in my home region on the Lago Maggiore, the festival "Tones on the Stones' place, a number of music and dance events in different quarries. And while it would take at least 10 horses to drag me into an opera house, but last night I went relatively freely in the marble quarry above Crevoladossola [...]

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The picturesque village of Orta San Giulio on Lake Orta is an absolute must-have addresses when I have friends or relatives to visit. Many of the attractions here at Lago Maggiore, I give myself for years and I have not - like the gardens of Villa Taranto - ever visited before. Orta but I find romantic, [...]

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More than seven years, I have the lights of this Italian Alpine lake forever attracted to their shores, (live a place meant for people to) in an area that "intended as a place that people live here," an eloquent friend of mine once , described it. The 66 km long and up to 10 km wide, fjord-like [...]

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After four days of incessant rain saturated - November is rainy season here in the Southern Alps - but then ventured into the sun just before and hinted that the late autumn can be quite fantastic in "my" lake. You must keep your eyes open. The mountains above Gravellona are covered with snow for days, which [...]

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As last night, the Italian national team in Final of European Championship qualifying match against Scotland in the arms into the rainy night sky of Glasgow's Hampden Park, raised went through Italian bars and living a sigh of relief from inflated cheeks and to the thousands of same gesture in the right hand vehemently bent from right to left. is shaken. [...]

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This summer I'm rediscovering my cherished places here on Lake Maggiore with the bike, especially the scenic roads in the alpine valleys of the Val d'Ossola and the side valleys of the Lago Maggiore. Last weekend, so now the queen stage to Alpe Devero, from Verbania on the motorway (toll free) in the direction of Simplon / Domodossola and behind the Sempione [...]

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The area around Lake Maggiore offers a myriad of suggested tours for bikers and while the obvious way on the coastal road around the lake in summer is usually permanent retaining means (optional, depending on time of day, also race with working in Switzerland commuters), found in the adjacent mountain area with plenty of beautiful routes spectacular views and [...]

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