Isola Bella

A Very Stylish Week in Milano and Lago Maggiore

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September 19th 2013
Friends of Steve’s were flying to Malpensa airport to meet us for a few days so, with the help of some recommendations from others, we found a campsite on the shores of Lago Maggiore, with a bus link to Milan. The campsite, situated in a little town called Baveno, near Stresa, was small and quiet (during the day! Unfortunately we quickly realised that there was a club nearby that played its musi ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more