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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". 
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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..." |
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