Villa Arona

Location Information

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Meina has shops, services, and restaurants, a sport center with tennis and pool.

DISTANCES:

There are 8 golf courses within 15-40 minutes’ drive. (Golf Club Castelconturbia 2 OPEN D’ITALIA)

The town of Stresa is 10 km north, while Arona is 4 kilometers south. Switzerland is just half an hour away. Milan is easily connected by train.

LAKE MAGGIORE

In a surrounding of extraordinary beauty Lake Maggiore offers to its visitors spectacular gardens boasting exceptional collections of camellias, azaleas and rhododendrons, historic villas and castles, sacred routes, medieval churches. An impressive number of parks are located here such as the Parco Nazionale della Val Grande (the largest wilderness area in Italy). The mountains, beyond the lake are wonderful, and each little village with its painted houses seems a terrace on the water.

In the center of the lake float the three enchanted Borromeo Islands.

The Isola Madre and Isola Bella, where are the Borromeo palaces and gardens and the charming Isola dei Pescatori (fishermen island). In front of Stresa stands, just above the water, on a rocky cliff the Eremo di Santa Caterina.

The car free town of Orta S Giulio is a little jewel.

Visit the 20 frescoed small chapels of the Sacro Monte above Orta San Giulio, with their of terracotta sculptures illustrating scenes from the life of Saint Francis. From Orta charming lakeside square you can admire the island of San Giulio, dominated by the ancient basilica and the convent.

A little farther in the inland is the Villa della Porta-Bozzolo in Casalzuigno, a masterpiece of early eighteenth-century landscaping.

Many sports activities can be practiced in Lake Maggiore such as sailing, water skiing, canoeing, golfing (7 golf courses in the area), trekking horse riding.