About This Tour
Italy’s second largest lake lures with a beautiful Riviera and a mediterranean ambience. Narrow mountain roads contrast with palm-lined shores promenades, Belle Époque villas and English gardens completement the archaic-looking villages. This high-contrast tour has a lot to offer and leaves nothing to be desired.
Italy
Lake Maggiore, with its 212.5 square kilometres, lies on the border between Italy and Switzerland. Its west bank is part of the Italian region of Piemont, the eastern shore lies in the Lombardy region and the north part in the Swiss canton of Ticino.
The second largest lake in Italy, at its deepest point 372 m, extends from the Southern Alps to the edge of the Po valley. The shore of Lake Maggiore is lined with a number of well-known locations – Stresa, Verbania, Ascona and Locarno, to name a few. Dream destinations are also the Borromean Islands in the Gulf of Stresa and the Brissago islands southwest of Ascona.
Pamper yourself with culinary delicacies and enjoy Lake Maggiore at the wheel of a Mercedes-Benz SL classic car. Which car suits this area and its old Belle Epoque mansions for you? Whether in Ascona, home of poets and bohemians, in Stresa or Milan you will be assured of admiring gazes.
The Botanical Gardens of the Villa Taranto, the garden terraces of the Isola Bella and many privately owned gardens, some with unique collections of plants, make Lake Maggiore a paradise for Botany fans. Of course, water sports enthusiasts also get their money’s worth here; from May to October, Lake Maggiore offers bathing lake temperatures, and sailors and motorboat enthusiasts can be found on the lake all year round. Let yourself be tempted by Lucullan delicacies indulge and enjoy Lake Maggiore in a very special way, namely at the wheel of a Mercedes Benz classic car. What automobile fits better here, with the villas from the Belle Époque? Whether in Ascona with its touch of bohemia, the conference town of Stresa or in Orta San Giulio on the lake of the same name: admiring glances from the roadside are guaranteed.