Isola Bella - Lake Maggiore, Gardens in Italy

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This celebrated 17th-century island garden floats like a galleon on the waters of Lake Maggiore, its great pyramid of terraces rising at the southern end to mimic a vessel's flat-topped stern. That this effect was intended can be deduced from Marc'Antonio dal Re's early 18th-century engraving, which includes the never-completed north of the island, extended to form a pointed prow.

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Isola Bella - Lake Maggiore Through Our Eyes

Photographed during our own travels and research, these images follow the journey through Isola Bella - Lake Maggiore, from the first view of the landscape to the small details that give the place its character.

Inside Isola Bella Gardens Lake Maggiore Italy

Isola Bella Gardens

Lake Maggiore Italy

Inside Isola Bella Gardens

Lake Maggiore Italy

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