Print Guidebooks - Lake Maggiore & Lake Orta Travel Guide
The Val Grande book
If you are looking for solitude, wilderness and adventure, you can still find it here. Remote, wild and romantic, Val Grande National Park on the western shore of Lake Maggiore is truly unique. Abandoned by people for fifty years, this fascinating landscape invites you to rediscover it, to trace its history and to have a wonderful experience. Anyone who has been there will want to return.
Soaring peaks, steep cliffs, deep gorges, clear mountain streams, dense chestnut and beech forests, and abandoned, crumbling alpine huts: walkers find a very special landscape here, with the magnificent panorama of the Valais mountains and the Bernese Oberland and wonderful views of Lake Maggiore and the plain of Varese and Milan.
The picture book "Val Grande – Wege in die Einsamkeit" (Paths into Solitude) will make you curious about this little-known area with its eventful history and beautiful landscape. Breathtaking photographs, insights into cultural history, descriptions of the natural world and vivid accounts of walking tours invite readers to discover the unspoilt hinterland of Lake Maggiore in all its variety.
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To order the book: www.alb-biosphaere.de/shop/buechermemo/
or Wiedemann Verlag, Höhnrißweg 6, D-72525 Münsingen-Rietheim
Tel. 07381/2090, Fax 07381/6120
ISBN 978-3-941453-04-3
Subtropical ambience in northern Italy, the splendour of the Belle Époque, bathing with flair ...
Lake Maggiore is the second-largest Italian Alpine lake, and a fifth of it belongs to the Swiss canton of Ticino. Locarno and Ascona are the showpieces of the Swiss part, while the Italian south shines with fashionable Stresa, where even the legendary "Orient Express" once ran, and the famous Borromean Islands, above all Isola Bella, which lives up to its name.
In the north-west, near the pretty little town of Cannobio, campers gather, while the east has remained quiet and peaceful.
Order the "Lago Maggiore" guidebook online
A fine guidebook to Lake Maggiore and Lake Orta.
Beyond the snow-capped Alpine peaks the south begins: dozens of large and small lakes, some nestling like Mediterranean fjords, others sunk like clear, deep-green pearls among high mountain forests.
Hardy Alpine flora mingles with palms and the scent of jasmine, lush vines thrive on the slopes, sunlight glitters on the water, a ferry hoots in the background, and in your hand is a glass of evening-red Campari ...
Hardly any region has awakened our longing for the sunny south like the lakes of northern Italy. Despite high visitor numbers, the region from Lake Garda to Lake Maggiore, from Lake Como to Lake Orta has remained lovable to this day.
Eberhard Fohrer's travel handbook describes more than twenty lakes in the southern Alps, gives detailed information on accommodation, restaurants, bathing spots and sights, and also accompanies travellers on excursions to the surrounding cultural cities of Verona, Brescia, Trento and Bergamo.
Order the "Oberitalienische Seen" (Northern Italian Lakes) guidebook online
This well-written guidebook gives a fine overview of the Northern Italian Lakes region.