Stresa
Stresa is a resort town with 4758 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) in the Italian province of Verbano -Cusio -Ossola on the western shore of Lake Maggiore ( Piedmont ) at the Simplon railway Domodossola - Milan.
Geography
Stresa is 200 meters above sea level and covers an area of 33 km ².
The Frazioni ( suburbs or islands in the lake ) from Stresa are Brisino, Isola Bella (see also Borromean Islands), Isola dei Pescatori (see also Borromean Islands ), La Sacca, Levo, Lido and Mottarone.
All of the Borromean islands except Isolino di San Giovanni belong to the municipality of Stresa.
The neighboring communities are Baveno, Belgirate, Brovello - Carpugnino Gignese, Grave Toce, Laveno- Mombello (VA), Leggiuno (VA), Lesa (NO), Omegna and Verbania.
Nearby Stresa, the 1,491 m high mountain is Mottarone.
Tourism
Mid-19th century Stresa was connected to the ship traffic on the Lago Maggiore, whereas you had to embark on Stendhal times still in Sesto Calende or in Arona, to go to the Borromean Islands. Also, by 1859, begun unification of Italy was awarded the tourism boom. This resulted in 1859 the inn " Della Speranza " near the pier, 1863 was followed by the luxurious " Grand Hotel des Iles Borromées ". Today, the site of the bed & breakfast has to luxury hotel accommodation as well as numerous shops, restaurants and cafes.
In 1906, after the completion of the Simplon railway tunnel, held the first trains, the Paris linked with Milan, Stresa; and 1919, from the Simplon - Express, the Simplon -Orient- Express. So Stresa was gradually connected directly to Paris and London on the one hand, with Venice, Belgrade, Bucharest, Athens and Constantinople Opel on the other side.
In the immediate vicinity of Stresa, Villa Pallavicino, which was built in the second half of the 19th century by the noble family Pallavicino in the classical style. It is situated in a 16 acre picturesque park with a small zoo.
The Mottarone is the winter sports. In the summer he can be reached by a cable car by car or from Stresa and offers a magnificent view. Halfway up, at the middle station Alpino the mountain railway, is the " Giardino Botanico Alpinia ", a 1934 equipped alpine botanical garden.
With various shipping lines can reach the Borromean Islands and other places on Lake Maggiore from Stresa.
Conferences in Stresa
Stresa Conference 11 -. April 14, 1935 On April 14, 1935, the leaders of France, Britain and Italy agreed ( Stresa Front ) measures to prevent the suspected German expansion and war policy, but this without lasting success. Britain offended soon, however: it closed on 18 June 1935, the Anglo-German Naval Agreement.
The " Convention of Stresa " from June 1, 1951 refers to the first international agreement on the designation of origin in cheese names. Austria, Denmark, France, Italy, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland: At this seven countries involved.
In July 1958 another " Stresa Conference " took place here. In order to create a stable agricultural market at that time, the Member States of the European Economic Community ( EEC) agreed on creating each individual product-related market organizations. From this later grew the Common Agricultural Policy. Beginning with the 1960s arisen to date in 22 market organizations, each regulating the market for individual agricultural products.
In 2004, Stresa place was the 52nd Bilderberg conference, the anniversary meeting "50 Years of Bilderbergers ".
Personalities
- From Stresa the brothers Francesco Giacomo Filippo and Giuseppe Bolongaro, merchants and snuff manufacturers, who relocated in 1735 to Frankfurt, where the largest tobacconist and snuff manufactory in Europe founded came from. 1772-1775 they were built the Baroque Bolongaropalast in maximum near Frankfurt, Germany's largest private buildings of the 18th century. Giacomo Filippo was build 1771 in Stresa "Villa Bolongaro " as a retirement home.
- The philosopher Antonio Rosmini - Serbati spent his last years in Stresa, where he also died in 1855. He lived here in "Villa Bolongaro " ( the current "Villa Ducale " ) on the shores of Lake Maggiore, which had been bequeathed to him in 1848 by Anna Maria Bolongaro and now houses a Rosmini - study center.
- Ernest Hemingway recovered in September 1918 at the "Grand Hotel des Iles Borromées " from a war injury and returned in 1927 and 1948 back here. In his novel A Farewell to Arms (Eng. A Farewell to Arms ) Stresa and the Grand Hotel also play a role. 2002 taught Stresa from the 10th International Hemingway Conference.