LAKE MAGGIORE

Setting off from Angera once again, having Arona opposite, the boat passes through the narrowest part of all the lake (two km), heading once again towards Piedmontese shore, where, at the foot of the green Vergante hills, they come one after the other splendid villas inclosed in parks and gardens, among which the late neoclassical Villa Faraggiana. We reach Meina, a pleasant tourist resort, known in the Middle Ages as Medina, where the writer and politician Cesare Cantù resided and died.