You can visit enchanting places such as: 

The Borromean Islands

Alpinia Garden

Placed in a panoramic area, the garden covers a surface of ca. 40.000 sqm. At 755 m height, it is possible to admire more than 800 botanical species from the alpine and subalpine region as well as many exotic plants.
Remarkable is the presence of a water source low in mineral content that, combined with the spectacular view, makes this garden a pleasant spot where to admire seven lakes (Lake Maggiore, Lake Orta and five Lombard lakes) as well as the Italian and Swiss Alps.
The garden can be reached by the panoramic cableway that, from the Lido di Carciano, goes up the Mottarone, getting off at the stop Alpino. The entrance is free.

Villa Pallavicino

At the southern edge of Stresa, on the state road to Arona, you find the Villa Pallavicino. The building was erected about 1850 by the Neapolitan statesman Ruggero Bonghi and passed on to the Pallavicino marquises in 1862. 
The villa is surrounded by an English-style garden, famous for the variety and the beauty of its plants and the striking view of the lake and the Swiss mountains, that represent a frame of rare beauty.
Its park reaches the hills that hosted the old castle of Stresa. 
In 1952, the marquise Luisa Pallavicino gathered in her park animals from every part of the world, thus attracting to the lake shores zoologists and botany enthusiasts. In this zoological garden, several animal species live in freedom and paths, alleys, squares and meadows mix with the woods and the natural glades.The zoological garden, the park and the greenhouses are open to the public.

The five-hectare park is embellished with wonderful trees: sequoias (among the first ones to be imported to Italy), ginkgos, planes, oaks, magnolias and a magnificent cedar of Lebanon rooted in the nearby of the villa.

Villa Taranto

The majestic garden complex of Villa Taranto covers the whole north-western side of the Castagnola promontory. The villa stands in the high part of the park. It was built around the end of the XIX century by a certain Count Orsetti and in 1900 it was bought by the Count of Sant’Elia, court chamberlain of the Savoia family, who, in turn, sold it in 1931 to the Scottish captain Antonio Neil McEacharn, archer of the English Queen and Linnaean Academician. Thanks to the hard and systematic work of this Scottish gentleman, who loved nature and nice things, today we can visit the most beautiful botanical garden of Europe. In 1939, Neil McEacharn decided to donate the villa and the whole park he had created to the Italian State. In 1952 the gardens were opened to the public and today they are run by the Botanical Garden Body of Villa Taranto, which has further enriched the botanical and landscape legacy with new tree varieties. The pergola with blue and yellow wistarias, the small valley, the staircase, the putti fountain, the greenhouse with the enormous leaves of Victoria regia floating, the tulips, the majestic conifer path, the colorful Japanese maples and the winter garden with its subtropical species are only some of the marvels that you can find in this botanical-naturalistic complex, an authentic artistic masterpiece. 

Mottarone

It can be reached by car or cableway from Stresa, its top is 1491 m high.
The panoramic road leading to the Park is La Borromea that, after 9 km, allows to enjoy an authentic show of nature: the visitor is plunged into an astonishing scenery characterized by meadows, torrents, flourishing woods and, not to forget, the view on Lake Maggiore, the Po Valley and the Italian and Swiss Alps.
The ‘mountain of the two lakes’, as it is called for its particular position that allows a striking view, embraces both the Lake Maggiore and the Lake Orta.

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