Isola Maggiore

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The Isola Maggiore is 307 meters above sea level in Lake Trasimeno (municipality Passignano, province of Perugia, region Umbria ).

The 24 -acre island is one of the most popular Umbrian holiday areas. Especially on weekends populate the tourists around town with the only - car-free - residential street, the Via Guglielmi. Today about 40 people ( 35 for as of 2001) of fishing, the lace-making and tourism.

The largest building is the Villa Isabella. 1887 bought the marquis Giacinto Guglielmi the abandoned former Franciscan monastery and had it restored and church from the 14th century and rebuilt in a neo-gothic zinnenbekröntes Castello, which he named after his wife. For several years, the castle, the lush park and the island were meeting point of the elegant world. There was even a specially acquired for the crossing steamers. In the 1970s, the castle was abandoned and degenerated into a picturesque ruin. 2007 the building was restored.

In the small fishing village of the plain Romanesque church of San Salvatore is from the 12th century. High above the island lies near the cemetery, the small Gothic church of San Michele Arcangelo in the 14th century with frescoes from the 14th and 16th centuries as well as a painted crucifix by Bartolomeo Caporali ( 1460 ).

Lent of the year 1211 spent St. Francis of Assisi on the island. A stone with his footprints and a small chapel and a bronze statue from 1982 remember.