Identifier: switzerlanditaly00karl (find matches)
Title: Switzerland and the adjacent portions of Italy, Savoy, and Tyrol. Handbook for travellers
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Publisher: Leipsic : K. Baedeker
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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la Ada, both noteworthy for their luxuriant vegetation. To theS. are the Villa San Remigio and the old church; then, on theCastagnola headland, the red Villa Ashburner, in the Grothic stylo. Pleasant walk from Intra, to the N., by a good road via Arizzano (shadyshort-cuts; carr. 16, with two or three horses 25 fr.), to (3V2 M.) Bee(1935; ^Alb. Bee), with a fine view of Lago Maggiore, and (23/4M.) Premeno(2600^ Hdt.-Pens. Premeno, pens. 8 fr.; Bestavrant Tornico, with beds).Above it (10 min.) is the Tornico, a platform laid out in honour of Gari-baldi, with a good spring; and A hr. higher is the Bellavista. command-ing the Alps, the lake, and (W.) the fertile Val Intragna. To the S. of Intra the Punta della Castagnola, with the GrandHotel Eden (p. 461), juts into the lake. When we have roundedthe headland and entered the wide W. bay of the lake, the Bor-romean Islands are disclosed to view: near the S. bank, Isola Bella;W. of it the Isola dei Pescatori; in the foreground, Isola Madre ;
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