Isola Bella #Italy 🇮🇹

Isola Bella is one of the most famous Baroque palace and park ensembles in the world. It was admired by such different people as Stendhal and Dickens, Napoleon and Josephine stayed here. 

🔶When Count Vitaliano VI Borromeo began in 1632 the construction of the palace and park complex, which later became famous, Isola Bella (ital. "Beautiful Island") was only a small rocky islet on Lago Maggiore, inhabited by fishermen. 

🔶The palace was supposed to be a gift to the Count's wife Isabella, but the construction was delayed for decades: the southern facade of the palace was completed only in 1958.

🔶The palace and gardens were originally conceived in a single composition: as a result, the island turned into a kind of ship with a manor house at the bow and a garden at the stern.
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