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Lake Maggiore

lago maggiore Lake Maggiore, or Verbano, is situated 194 meters above sea level and it is in the area the second largest with its 212 sq. kilometers reaching the maximum width of 12 km and a length of 66 km, while its coastal bounding is about 170 km. Its maximum depth is of 370 m., while the average is about 175 m. The lake goes back to Ice Era. On the eastern side its shores are in Lombardia, on the western they are in Piedmont while in the northern side they are part of the Helvetian Confederation (Switzerland). Its major tributary and contemporaneously, outlet is the Ticino River. The unique physical and landscape configuration of the lake, the presence of mountains and hills that protects it from the Nordic rigors and make the climate mild, the existence of tributaries like the Ticino - which is navigable, becoming with the entire basin an important artery between the Po lowlands and the Central Europe - all these factors fostered human settlements on the Lake. The history of human settlements on the Maggiore dates back to the pre-historic civilization of Golasecca (Iron Age) to the Celts, to the Romans - who made in the 11th Augustan District, and so on from the important ecclesiastical organizations of the orders in the Middle Ages to the battles between Visconti and Torriani, finally affirmed by the Borromeos and by the passage of the northern area to the Swiss in the 16th century. In the 17th the western shore was part of the Savoy dynasty, and that of the eastern to the Austrian Dominion which, excluding the twenty year Napoleonic period endured up until the Renaissance wars. In the 19th century the tourist calling was affirmed with tremendous development of villas, parks and grand hotels.

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