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All around the shores of Lake Maggiore there is a lot of villas built at the end of 1800 in Liberty style, almost of them have gardens with rare exotic plants thanks to the climate wich is mild also in winter. |
The most famous and visited of them are Villa Taranto at Pallanza, Villa Pallavicini at Stresa and Villa Laforet at Ghiffa. Some villas have been abandoned, so that they are |
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falling into ruin like the one rapresented in this picture.The portion rapresented of the whole villa is the house of the gardener. The estate is currently property |
of a
Swiss company of several floors, fountains and wooden stables, the |
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and comprise this house, a green house the villa building, a park with gazebo, bridges, a dock with motorboat, the house of caretaker. |
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Le porte erano aperte e buie. I venti infuriavano nella sala. Gli alberi cospargevano la soglia di foglie; il mormorio della notte errava distante. |
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I poemi di Ossian |
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