PARCO DEL MOTTARONE
 Mottarone's summit, at an altitude of 1491
metres, can be reached by car or cable car from Stresa.
The 9 km panoramic road, "La Borromea", that leads
up to this splendid natural spectacle offers the observer remarkable scenery
along the way that includes green meadows, sparkling streams and luxuriant
woods, not to mention unforgettable sweeping views over Lake Maggiore and, off
into the distance, the Padana Plains and the peaks of the Italian and Swiss Alps.
The Borromeo family began to
take an interest, which continued until 1892, in Mottarone beginning in 1623
when Vitiliano Borromeo had the agricultural-forestal road, planned by Pier
Maria Vallenzasca, constructed. Today this road is used by skiers and mountain
lovers who choose it as an alternative to the cable car that replaced the old
railway, since dismantled.
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