Key facts
- Location
- Lago Maggiore
- Archipelago
- Borromean Islands
- Area
- 0.20 km (0.077 sq mi)
- Length
- 0.32 km (0.199 mi)
- Width
- 0.18 km (0.112 mi)
- Region
- Piedmont
- Province
- Verbano-Cusio-Ossola
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Part of
- Borromean Islands
- Country
- Italy
- Located in
- Stresa
- Area
- 0.20
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Body of water
- Lake Maggiore
- Image
- Isola Bella 56.jpg
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- located in/on physical feature
- Borromean Islands
- Commons category
- Isola Bella (Stresa)
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- Isola Bella (Stresa)
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Encyclopedic overview
Isola Bella (lit. 'beautiful island') is one of the Borromean islands of Lake Maggiore in Northern Italy. The island is situated in the Borromean Gulf 400 metres from the lakeside town of Stresa. Isola Bella is 320 metres long by 400 metres wide and is divided between the Palace, its Italianate garden, and a small fishing village.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Isola Bella” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.