Time a vacation idea. For several years, is in my home region on Lake Maggiore, the festival "Tones on the Stones", an array 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 on Lake Maggiore, I give myself for years and I have not - like the gardens of Villa Taranto - ever visited before. But I think romantically of Orta, [...]

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More than seven years, I have the lights of the 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, rich - 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 amazing here on "my" lake. You must keep your eyes open. The mountains above Gravellona 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's arms into the rainy night sky of Glasgow's Hampden Park, raised went through Italian bars and living a sigh of relief from the inflated cheeks and to the thousands of same gesture in the right hand vehemently bent from right to left. 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 valleys of the Lago Maggiore. Last weekend, so now the queen stage to Alpe Devero, Verbania from the motorway (toll free) in the direction of Simplon / Sempione and Domodossola behind the [...]

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The area around Lake Maggiore offers a myriad of suggested tours for bikers and while the obvious ride on the coastal road around the lake in summer is usually permanent storage means (optional, depending on time of day, even race with working in Switzerland commuters), found in the adjacent mountain regions have enough beautiful tracks with fantastic views and [...]

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