Lake Maggiore is the second largest Italian lake but certainly the first for beauty and richness: natural, architectural and landscape beauty; historical, cultural richness and tradition.
The numerous islands that decorate it are all precious jewels, and the most renowned and unmissable are certainly the three in the Borromean Gulf.

The Isola Madre, the largest, with its lush exotic garden, is the most voluptuous place I have ever seen in the world, said Gustave Flaubert. It's impossible to blame him: the main residence, the immense park and the peacocks walking around freely, immersed in a surreal, old-time, peaceful quiet.

Isola Bella, however fantastic and wonderful it may be, is nevertheless beautiful. This is how Charles Dickens describes it. Palazzo Borromeo, summer residence of the noble Milanese family, is a pure tribute to the Baroque, its gardens on ten terraces are an earthly Eden.

Isola Pescatori, the maximum expression of life as islanders, fishermen of the past, restaurateurs of today, who have transformed their most ancient and traditional profession and converted it so as not to let this place be abandoned. The rhythms, the flavours, the glimpses of lakeside life are even more evocative from here.