Here's what you need to know before planning a trip to Lake Maggiore, including the best hotels, things to do, and more.

At about 82 square miles, Lake Maggiore is Italy’s second-largest lake after Lake Garda. Its opposing shores are in two different regions of Italy, Lombardy to the east and Piedmont to the west.

Just 90 minutes from Lake Como, this stunning lake is cheaper, quieter and less crowded than its more popular sibling. Lake ...

Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims have been pouring into the medieval hilltop town of Assisi in Italy to venerate the ...

Relentless noise. This is the mayhem I expected from my visit to Lake Maggiore, the second-largest lake in Italy that stretches into Switzerland. Over-tourism has long been a problem at ...

At 100, Grandma Anna, or Nonna Anna as Anna Possi is known in the picturesque village of Nebbiuno above Lake Maggiore, is Italy’s oldest barista. For more than six decades – since 1958 to be ...

Italians are well known for frowning at tourists and their ill-timed coffee requests – but not Italy’s oldest barista, Anna Possi. The 100-year-old, who has been running a cafe above Lake ...

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