Intragnola – Botanical Garden Lake MaggioreIsola Madre, how to get there
Posted on January 30, 2016
If you are staying at Polidora B&B inside Intragnola Gardens, you leave the car in Laveno and get a ferry to Verbania.
From there, Navigazione Laghi runs ships to Pallanza and then Isola Madre.
You can lunch on the Island at Ristorante Piratera.
Taxi boats will get you everywhere you want, but are pretty expensive.
If you want to do some exercise, you can row from Intragnola to Isola Madre: it will take about one hour 15 minutes, but first check the weather: storms build up very quickly.
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Isola Madre, the aftermath of the hurricane
Posted on January 30, 2016
The 30th of June 2006 a hurricane capsized the 150 yrs old Cupressus cashmeriana of Isola Madre (this wonderful tree is in fact a Cupressus tortulosa).
Immediately, a rescue team set up cranes to put it back on its roots.
You can see that the Island profile has changed: the large globe of the Cupressus cashmeriana is broken.
However, the tree survived and started regrowing. After a few years this awesome effort can be considered a great success.
Here you can see helicopters working on the site.
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Intragnola Sostiene il FAI
