LAKE MAGGIORE, Isola Bella & LUGANO - Day 6 - september 24, 2022
This morning, after a great breakfast, we took the train back down from Zermatt to join our bus in Taesh. We were so lucky to have a beautiful day at the Matterhorn because today in cloudy and rainy. We drove across the Simplon Pass into Italy and Lake Maggiore. On our way we stopped at a wonderful bakery, the Backerei Tea Room Arnold in the town of Simplon and chose a pastry and a hot beverage - the assortment of pastries was overwhelming! We have been eating almost constantly - they call it the Tauck Diet!
Backerei Tea Room Arnold Simplon
It was raining fairly hard as we arrived in Stressa, Italy for lunch - we had cold cuts, pasta, wine, and a desert! We took a boat out on Lake Maggiore to the Isola Bella. The Isola Bella is the home to the Borromeo Palace. The palace is their summer residence, they live mostly in Milan. They have opened the first floor and some of the gardens to the public - it is really over the top!
Model of the Isola Bella
Gardens at Isola Bella
Grand Hall at Isola Bella
We left Italy, for the moment, and drove back into Switzerland to the town of Lugano. We will stay two nights at the Hotel Splendide Royal on the shore of Lake Lugano we had a very nice room overlooking the beautiful lake. We had dinner at the hotel in the restaurant La Veranda, it was very fancy and snooty, but the food was only fair.
Lake Lugano from out hotel balcony