the most romantic lake in Northern Italy, which inspired poets like Browning and philosophers like Nietzsche...
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Brief portrait: The area around Lake Orta has long been a favorite tourists, thanks to the quiet beauty of the landscape, its fascinating history and its wealth of artistic treasures - principally Romanesque and Baroque architecture. Lake Orta lies to the west of Lake Maggiore, in the northern Italy. It is a minor star in the costellation of the subalpine lakes, but all the fascination and the history of the larger lakes seem to be concentrated in this short space. |
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| Jason Clark WebSideStory's Cyber Scriber: "I'll let the site speak for itself: The area around Lake Orta has long been a favorite tourists, thanks to the quiet beauty of the landscape, its fascinating history and its wealth of artistic treasures — principally Romanesque and Baroque architecture. Take one look at the entrance page and fall in love with this, the most romantic of the Italian lakes. Travel the World 1000 Tourism category for more great destinations." |
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| R. Browning (From By the Fire-Side): "(...) Look at the ruined chapel again / Half-way up in the Alpine gorge! / Is that a tower, I point you plain, / Or is it a mill, or an iron-forge / Breaks solitude in vain? / A turn, and we stand in the heart of things; / The woods are round us, heaped and dim; / From slab to slab how it slips and springs, / The thread of water single and slim, / Through the ravage some torrent brings! / Does it feed the little lake above? / That speck of white just on its marge / Is Pella; see, in the evening-glow, / How sharp the silver spear-heads charge / When Alp meets heaven in snow! (...)." |
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Webmasters:
Pier Maria Galli
Via Caire, 37
28016 Orta S. Giulio (Novara) Italy
Photos by:
don E. Barberis,
V. Collina,
G. Demicheli, S. Padulazzi
