Isola Madre
Guide
Photo: Hagai Agmon-Snir حچاي اچمون-سنير חגי אגמון-שניר · CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
≈ A$30ParkAllow 1.25–2 hPut together by AI from open data
What you'll see
The biggest island, almost all of it an English-style garden of rare trees, flowers and pheasants, around a villa with puppet theatres.
A brief history
A Borromeo villa since the 1500s; its gardens were planted with exotic species from the 1800s.
Tips
- Best time
- Spring, when the azaleas flower
- Cost
- About €17 plus the boat (check)
- Allow
- 1.25–2 h
- Hours
- Usually open daily from about late March to early November (check)
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Good to know
- Area
- The Borromean Islands: A palace island, a fishing island and a garden island, a short boat ride out.
- Access
- Partly step-free
- Indoors or out
- Outdoors
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