Among the most beautiful regions in northern Italy, the Great Lakes have inspired poets and writers from Pliny le Jeune to Jean Giono, to Goethe and Hemingway. An extended weekend on the shores of Major lakes, Orta, Como and Garde will allow you to walk in the footsteps of the great authors who sang the praises of these jewels of nature through the centuries.
Day 1: Lake Orta and Gianni Rodari
Day 2: Lake Maggiore and Hemingway
Day 3: Lake Como and Alessandro Manzoni
Day 4: Lake Garda and Peninsula
A day on the lake of Orta will allow you to return to the footsteps of Gianni Rodari, the great author of Italian literature for Children, from Omegna. His novel He was twice Baron Lambert takes place entirely on the island of San Giulio. A children's amusement park is now dedicated to it.
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Ernest Hemingway extensively described the mountain landscape reflected in the waters of Lake Maggiore in his Farewell to Arms; find the elegant and dépaysante atmosphere of this novel, in the salons of the Grand Hôtel des Iles Borromées and the Borromeo Islands themselves. A real journey over time!
Pliny the Young, Virgil, Shelley, Stendhal and others, delighted by the beauty of Lake Como, sang his charms in their works. The most true? Alessandro Manzoni, a great romantic writer of Italy from the late th century, and Lecco retains all the memories.
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For Peninsula, the Roman poet of the first century BC, Lake Garda was the most beautiful place on earth, so beautiful that he was built a villa worthy of a prince on the peninsula of Sirmione. Much later, Goethe was of the same opinion, he stayed for a long time on the side of Malcesine. Finally, the Gardesana hotel in Torri del Spa keeps remembering the passage of Jean Giono.
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