Villa Taranto Gardens
Guide
Photo: Alessandro Vecchi · CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
≈ A$23ParkAllow 1.25–2 hPut together by AI from open data
What you'll see
Huge botanical gardens above the lake with thousands of plant species, terraced pools of giant water lilies and a dahlia maze.
A brief history
A Scottish captain, Neil McEacharn, bought the estate in 1931 and spent decades planting it, then gave it to the Italian state.
Tips
- Best time
- Morning, with the boat from Stresa
- Cost
- About €13 (check)
- Allow
- 1.25–2 h
- Hours
- Usually open daily from about March to October (check)
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Good to know
- Area
- Pallanza (Verbania): A quieter, cheaper town across the bay, with the Villa Taranto gardens.
- Access
- Partly step-free
- Indoors or out
- Outdoors
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