Stay : Around the Italian lakes on the trail of the poets
As one of the most beautiful regions in Northern Italy, the Great Lakes have always inspired poets and writers, from Pliny the Younger to Jean Giono, including Goethe and Hemingway. An extended weekend on the shores of Lakes Maggiore, Orta, Como and Garda will allow you to follow in the footsteps of the authors who have sung the praises of these natural jewels through the centuries.
Summary of the stay
Best time to go
4 days
€ - Good and cheap
Detail of the stay : Around the Italian lakes on the trail of the poets - 4 days
Day 1: Lake Orta and Gianni Rodari
Steps: Lac D'Orta
A day on Lake Orta will allow you to follow in the footsteps of Gianni Rodari, a great author of Italian children's literature, originally from Omegna. His novel Twice upon a time Baron Lambert is set entirely on the island of San Giulio. A children's amusement park is now dedicated to him.
Day 2: Lake Maggiore and Hemingway
Steps: Lac Majeur, Îles Borromées
Ernest Hemingway described at length the landscape of the mountains reflected in the waters of Lake Maggiore in his Farewell to Arms; find the elegant and exotic atmosphere of this novel in the salons of the Grand Hotel of the Borromean Islands and on the Borromean Islands themselves. A true journey through time!
Day 3: Lake Como and Alessandro Manzoni
Steps: Lecco, Lac De Côme
Pliny the Younger, Virgil, Shelley, Stendhal and others, enchanted by the beauties of Lake Como, have sung its charms in their works. The most true? Alessandro Manzoni, the great romantic writer of Italy at the end of the 19th century, whose memories are still alive in Lecco.
Day 4: Lake Garda and Catullus
Steps: Sirmione, Malcesine, Torri Del Benaco, Lac De Garde
For Catullus, the Roman poet of the first century B.C., Lake Garda was the most beautiful place on earth, so beautiful that he built himself 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 Hotel Gardesana, in Torri del Benaco, keeps the memory of Jean Giono's visit.
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