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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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From The Independent: Lake Orta, one of the smallest and least-known of northern Italy's sub-Alpine lakes, is a place for sublime moments. The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who visited the lake in May 1882 and believed that the experience changed his life forever, inscribed the date "von Orta an" ("from Orta onwards") as a preface to his masterpiece Thus Spake Zarathustra. Other 19th-century writers enchanted by its quiet beauty include the French novelist Honoré de Balzac, who wrote rapturously of this "grey pearl in a green jewel-box", and Robert Browning. His poem "By the Fireside", which contemplates the beauty of a setting where "Alp meets heaven in snow", describes the lakeside village of Pella as a luminous "speck of white... in the evening-glow". continue
L.Marshall: "Orta is a place of mists and devotion. Morning mists come with territory: this little jewel, just eight miles long and less than two miles wide, is the only one of the italian lakes entirely in Piedmont..." continue

 

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il trenino di orta, click here

 

arrow_1.gif (211 byte) send a free postcard from Orta
arrow_1.gif (211 byte) poetry on the lake Orta
arrow_1.gif (211 byte) write about lake Orta!
arrow_1.gif (211 byte) Isola di San Giulio from the islomaniac's blog

At present some pages are available only in Italian:
arrow_1.gif (211 byte) villages on the lake
arrow_1.gif (211 byte) walking around lake Orta


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Arnaldo Pomodoro in Orta S. Giulio (2008): the images

Winter 2008/2009 in Orta San Giulio:
the Christmas's snow, click here to see pictures





 

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