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Inauguration on Lake Maggiore of the first hybrid motorboat in service on Italian inland waters

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Today, Friday 16 April, the first hybrid diesel/electric motor vessel in service in inland waters in Italy was inaugurated in Arona. It will initially enter service on Lake Maggiore in the Angera-Arona section.

Built in the Cartubi shipyard in Trieste and completed in Arona in January this year, the Topazio is a hybrid diesel/electric motor vessel, 30 metres long and 7 metres wide, which can carry up to 200 passengers, with a high level of accessibility for disabled passengers.

The vessel, which uses electric propulsion for approach and departure manoeuvres to the port of call and electric/diesel energy for other operations, is the flagship of Navigazione Laghi. The vessel is the result of the government agency's sustainable commitment, which in recent years has devoted funds and energy to new modernisation projects and new constructions, with a focus on ecology and the environment.

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Summer on Lake Maggiore always brings a burst of “green”: this is when nature-lovers see her at her best. Combined with the power of music this creates a vivid, exhilarating experience. The inviting path leads us through the natural and musical routes of Europe, amidst landscapes and notes that arouse ancient and new feelings, offering natural beauties and musical opportunities we often dream of.
This year’s Festival is closer than ever to its surroundings, its roots tracing 60 years of music. A distinguishing feature and source of inspiration is the deep, continuous relationship with the many ‘spaces for sound’ overlooking the lake, which feel like home for musicians and music.
 
Mario Brunello, the Festival’s new Artistic Director, had laid out a map to show off the open-air events, where music brings musicians to ideal meeting places.

Like a wood, the Festival breathes in then breathes out clean air.

Like a wood, the Festival grows, changing from one year to the next.

Like a wood, the Festival invites you to discover its riches – old and new.

Trees are the symbol of the 60th Stresa Festival. Trees in the woods and gardens bring life and beauty -

the silent stars of the magnificent landscapes of Stresa and Lake Maggiore.

For this year’s Festival, born in the unpredictable times we are living, we shall ask our artistes not only 

to give us music, but also to spend a little time mixing with the public of Stresa, to discover the region, 

its art and Nature. Strolling around, chatting informally – time to slow down, when we can enjoy the 

emotions of the music once more through the eyes and words of the artistes.

This is the year when the whole world celebrates several historic anniversaries. Top of the list Dante,

then come Stravinsky, Piazzolla, Saint-Saëns. 

Two young musicians will launch the Festival in August. Nil Venditti, a charismatic 25-year-old, will 

conduct the Stuttgarter Kammerorchester in a concert starting with Stravinsky. Alexandra Dogvan, 

their 14-year-old piano soloist, will then tackle Beethoven’s Second Piano Concerto.

One of Stravinsky’s best-known works, Petruchka (the Russian version of Pulcinella) will be ‘danced’ by 

the puppets of the Teatro Habanera, accompanied by the piano version for four hands, with Mariangela 

Vacatello and Alessandro Taverna. Another version of Petruchka for seven instruments, alongside 

Debuissy’s Sonatas for chamber orchestra, will be ingterpreted by Lorenza Borrani with a group of 

outstanding musicians from all over Europe.

We shall hear more Stravinsky from Beatrice Rana, with three movements of Petruchka for piano, and 

then the Sagra della Primavera and Pulcinella with the violinist Andrea Obiso and the pianist Massimo 

Spada, in an evening of music and dance with international ballet stars, Sergio Bernal and Miriam 

Mendoza, Matteo Miccini, Sasha Riva and Simone Repele. For this special occasion the dancers will 

wear the original costumes – designed by Picasso - from the very first representation. 

Daniele Gatti will conduct the Orchestra Nazionale dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia, performing for the 

first time at the Festival. Their programme will start with another Stravinsky masterpiece, the music for 

the ballet Apollon Musagete. Then - to stay up on Mount Olympus - the 2021 Festival will close to the 

sound of Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony.

For the Island in Festival - Isola in Festival the Russian Pulcinella will roam around the Isola dei Pescatori, 

accompanied by Musicamorfosi. 

The popular themes that inspired Stravinsky recur in July in the jazz piano evenings. There will be 

improvisations by well-known names like Uri Caine or young rising stars like Enrico Zanisi and

Alessandro Lanzoni. Stefano Bollani is inspired by Jesus Christ Superstar and Gonzalo Rubalcaba has a 

Cuban music ‘project’. Their genial inventions will measure up to all our expectations!

Jazz will also see Schubert’s Lieder re-interpreted by Rosemary Standley and the Ensemble Contraste: 

at our evening at the Dantesque Rocca di Angera Alessandro Baricco will read some of Dante’s works.

Gidon Kremer brings us Piazzolla’s irresistable melancholy, interpreting the Argentian compser’s music 

with conviction and great successs in concerts around the world, with incredibly talented team, the

Kremerata Baltica. Then who could be better than Pablo Ziegler, the pianist in Piazzolla’s Quintetto, to unveil the secrets of 

the Tango Nuevo in a symphonic programme with the surprising young Orchestra Senzaspine and

Marco Albonetti’s sax. But Piazzolla’s best- known works form the heart of the Anna Tifu Tango 

Quartet’s programme, which will be staged in a very special setting, new for the Festival – the Herno 

factory building.

Renaissance music will ring out in an itinerant concert on the Sacro Monte di Ghiffa with the voices of 

the Orlando Consort. 

For the full performance of Bach’s Suite per violoncello we shall have the previlege of hearing a cello 

genius, Giovanni Sollima. Then too, as part of the ancient music scene, there will be an ‘ecological’ 

performance of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, interpreted in a contemporary key dedicated to the 

environment, by the Solisti Aquilani.

The Vision String Quartet is a group of young Berliners who play a wide repertory of great chamber 

music by memory. They then finish up their concerts with jazz improvisations! The pianist Fazil Say, 

now a major name in today’s musical scene, has set out a programme mirroring ancient and modern 

French music. 

The ‘desecrating’ South African cellist/singer Abel Selaocoe, lined up with the talents of the new 

generation of the Manchester Collective, manages to mingle traditional African music with European 

masterpieces.

On 27 August 1962 the Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala inaugurated the first concert of the Settimane 

Musicali di Stresa. This year, on the same date, Gianandrea Noseda, after 20 unforgettable years as Artistic Director of the Festival, will conduct the Filarmonica in Brahms’ First Symphony, symbolically passing the ‘baton’ to Mario Brunello, soloist in Saint-Saëns cello Concerto>>.

Mario Brunello Stresa, 9 April 2021

OPEN

Moon & Stars dal 15 al 25 Luglio 2021 Locarno

Locarno believes in a return to concerts: July sees the arrival of Ligabue, De Gregori, Nek and Zucchero

Canton Ticino has presented the programme of "Moon & stars" from 15 to 25 July: tickets are already on sale

OPENING 15th MARCH – CLOSURE 3rd NOVEMBER 2019

OPENING HOURS
Open every day,  all-day:
March: from 8:30 a.m. till 5:30 p.m. (last entry)
April - September: from 8:30 a.m. till 6:30 p.m. (last entry)
1st October - 14th October: from 9:00 a.m. till 5:00 p.m. (last entry)
15th October - 31st october: from 9:00 a.m. till 4:30 p.m. (last entry)
1st November  - 3rd November: from 9:00 a.m. till 4:00 p.m. (last entry)

TIME REQUIRED FOR THE VISIT
From one to two hours.

https://www.villataranto.it/en/

Luca Gemelli

Lesa 

Defeated three times by the British Parliament in Westminster on the agreement for Brexit, engaged in travel to Brussels and Strasbourg to seek a new agreement with the European Union, the British Prime Minister Theresa May, in these cold winter months, has taken refuge in one of the few certainties that have remained in this period: the coat Herno, produced by the manufacture of Lesa.

The London Sunday Times, relaunched on Sunday by the BBC News press review, revealed how this piece of clothing, a woolen coat with quilted inner padding, can function as a warm blanket, but also as a "nuclear shelter" to be protected from political storms.

The British premier, has revealed in recent months another newspaper in the United Kingdom, The Guardian and a blog specializing in the clothing of British politicians, is a lover of the garments of the company in Lesa, he would own four. At the World Economic Forum in Davos she wore a blue tweed jacket, also by Herno.

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Published on 30/03/2019 La Stampa - Novara

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 07/06/2019 - 09/06/2019

ARONA - Arona Street Food

7-8-9 June

"Arona Street Food."

Food, music and fun for the whole family. Over 25 food trucks, real restaurants on wheels that offer gourmet cuisine within reach.

In the evening the Silent Disco will colour the lake shore in silence. A wonderful event with ZERO effect, open air with colourful headphones, 3 DJs in the console and 3 music styles.

Old games and creative workshops for children at any time.

Performances by street artists and luminous dancers.

E-mail: turismo.arona@comune.arona.no.it

 JUNE 2019 the motorboat separators

The stage of the Xcat World Championship will take place from 28 to 30 June in Stresa.

The Xcat, the catamaran of the World Championship of the International Motor Boating Union, will sail on Lake Maggiore in Stresa from 28 to 30 June.

14 catamarans will fight on the waters of Lake Maggiore at speeds of up to 190 kilometres per hour. The event has a duration of three days, during which the free practice, the fight for the pole position and then the two races to classify the world championship take place. Last year, the Dubai Police team, led by Arif Al Zaffain and Nadir Bin Hendi, defeated the competition and in previous years reached the top of the podium in Stresa.

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Info biglietti: http://www.ilmaggioreverbania.it/

Islands and gardens, villas, parks, flowers and major events: starting from March 2017 the tourist season in the territory of the Distretto Turistico dei Laghi, Monti e Valli dell'Ossola begins again with the most eagerly-awaited new attractions!

From March 2017, the month that marks the beginning of the high season in the territory of the Distretto Turistico dei Laghi with the opening of visits to the islands, our splendid territory – comprising the Ossola valleys and mountains and magnificent Lakes Maggiore, Orta and Mergozzo - is ready to welcome Italian and international visitors with the opening of the main tourist attractions:
# Parco Rocca di Arona, the scenic treasure surrounding the castle where San Carlo Borromeo was born (www.parcoroccaarona.com).
# “San Carlone”, the gigantic statue dedicated to San Carlo Borromeo (35.10 metres in height) (www.statuasancarlo.it)
# Villa Taranto Botanical Gardens, with its combinations of colours and shapes dictated by the flowering of tulips and dahlias, the light and shade effects created by the majestic centuries-old trees, the fountains, the pools with tropical water plants and the hothouse (www.villataranto.it).
# Parco Zoo Villa Pallavicino, an area of around 20 hectares included flower avenues full of flowers, centuries-old trees, a marvellous botanical garden and, the main attraction, the animals. (www.parcozoopallavicino.it)
# Giardino Alpina, 40,000 sq.m on a natural belvedere on Mount Mottarone, where you can relax looking at the landscape and remaining in close contact with nature (www.giardinobotanicoalpinia.altervista.org).
# Borromean Islands, a major local tourist attraction for their picturesque setting (www.isoleborromee.it). As always, the Islands can be reached with the services offered by the Motorboats owned by Private Consortiums and the Navigazione Lago Maggiore company.

In 2017 in the area of the Distretto Turistico dei Laghi, Monti e Valli there will be lots of opportunities for amusement, relaxing, tasting local food and wine and taking part in top-level events.
# “Citrus Fruits of Cannero Riviera”, visitors will be able to satisfy all their botanical curiosities on site, before setting off to discover the gardens opened exceptionally for the event (www.cannero.it).
# Camellia Exhibition, Camelias are the emblem of the local floricultural production first set up 150 years ago on Lake Maggiore and now recognised as outstanding in Europe with 5 million plants grown by one hundred or so companies in the provinces of Verbano Cusio Ossola and Novara (+39 0323 503249).
# Fireworks Festival 2017, the shows are offered in the splendid natural settings of the lakes and mountains and attract over 300,000 thousand spectators to the area (www.distrettolaghi.it).
# The traditional summer music festivals are also already confirmed: “Stresa Festival” (www.stresafestival.eu), “Un Paese a Sei Corde”, the International Organ Festival “Sonata Organi”, Ossola Guitar Festival, Tones on the Stones and Miasino Jazz Festival.
# Cultural and literary events include: La Fabbrica di Carta (www.facebook.com/fabbricadicarta), Lago Maggiore LetterAltura Festival (www.letteraltura.it), Il Teatro sull'Acqua (www.teatrosullacqua.it).
# Appointments with food and wine, folklore and traditions, in particular the typical ones connected with the mountains of the Ossola area: “Life amongst the Leponti and Walser peoples”, “St. Bernard’s Fair”, “Lake Flavours”, “Potato Festival”, the 36th International Chimney Sweep Meeting (www.santamariamaggiore.info), “Father Christmas's Real Grotto” (www.grottadibabbonatale.it) and many others (www.distrettolaghi.it).
# This year also promises to be innovative and intense for the sport competitions that have been scheduled.

Once again this year, there will be countless opportunities for open-air and leisure activities making the most of scenic attractions: cruises on the lake or sightseeing trips aboard the “Treno delle Centovalli”.
Then there are water sports, golf courses surrounded by splendid scenery, panoramic walks around the lakes or to discover the most beautiful valleys for all ages and abilities.
Not to be missed by the most enterprising visitors are moments of pure fun in contact with nature: Aquadventure Park (Baveno), Alpyland (Stresa, Mottarone) and the Zipline (Aurano, Verbania).
Lake Maggiore, Lake Orta and Lake Mergozzo, surrounded by the splendid Ossola Valleys are waiting for you to give you an all-round holiday: let yourself be welcomed and pampered by one of the over 850 accommodation facilities offered in our area, take advantage of the countless opportunities for amusement, savour the culture and the local specialities linked to our tradition for excellent food and wine, take part in the innumerable evenings organised in our best-known resorts, the settings for big events and favoured by unforgettable moments!
With over three and a half million visitors a year, 70% of them foreigners, the Distretto Turistico dei Laghi area – located in the centre of a territory with a high population density between Switzerland, Varese, Milan and Turin - is one of the most important tourist destinations in Northern Italy!

Among conifer woods and alpine lawns Formazza Valley hides an extraordinary "jewel", the second highest waterfall in Europe.

Its 143 meters-high and 60 meters-large (on the basis) fall is fed by an extremely pure mountain spring nearby Gries Pass (2463 meters altitude), which separates Italy from Switzerland and through which in 1852 Richard Wagner went to begin then his grand tour in Italy.

Spring waters are normally collected in great artificial Lake Morasco from which, only in some periods during the year (in summer, in particular), they can flow towards the bottom of the valley creating the waterfall spectacle.
There is a small wooden bridge over the waterfall top. There the panoramic point of view of the valley below is terrific and dizzy at the same time!

Opposite to the fall there is a historical building, which was created in 1863 as hotel to host hikers and mountaineers. Next to it a small nice church of 1621 is dedicated to "Madonna della Neve".

This year the waterfall will be open for visitors from Sunday June 3rd, 10-16 with the following calendar:

from June 10th: working days from 11.30 to 13.30, Sundays and public holidays from 10 to 16;
from August 10th to 20th from 10 to 16;
On August 15th and 16th from 10 to 18.
Open until Sunday September 30th, 10-16.

The Toce Waterfall is also being the amazing scenery for the “Fiori di Fuoco” 2012 Fireworks World Championship opening night. This first show could be a special occasion to admire this natural miracle together with thousands of lights and colors.