July 25, 2010
Lake Orta
Bike + car
• Meeting: 7.30 am to the square FS Varese, with private car transfer to Gozzano
• Difficulty: Moderately challenging, with many ups and downs
• Length: 45 km
• Breakfast Lunches
• Return : Varese scheduled at 19:30
• Fee: € 3.00 + cost of cars
• reservations by Thursday, 22/07 at Ciclocittà or with the organization, indicating availability of places for people and / or bike
· organize : Lucia Gandini, e-mail: lucybike1@inwind.it and Beppe Ferrari , e-mail: ferrarj@tin.it
The most romantic of Italian lakes, which inspired
Browning, Nietzsche, Balzac
The Lake Orta or Cusio is a lake in the Piedmont located between the provinces of Novara and Verbano Cusio Ossola . East of Mount Mottarone separates Lake Orta Lake Maggiore from , while to the west mountains as high as 1300 meters separate from the water surface Valsesia . It is the most western of the pre-Alpine lakes, which originated in the southern the glacier of the pass. Unlike the case with many alpine lakes, which have an outlet to the south, the waters of Lake Orta leaving the lake to the north. Through the city of Omegna creating the stream that flows into Nigoglia Strona which, in turn, flows into Toce and then in Lake Maggiore. In the middle of the lake is the 'island of San Giulio , of \u200b\u200bsmall dimensions, which is home to the Basilica The remains of St namesake.
" A delightful small lake at the foot of Rose, an island located on the water very very calm, flirtatious and easy. The world has known that the traveler is found in small modest and pure: his mind refreshed invites to remain there, because a poetic and melodious charm the surrounds, with all its harmonies and unusual ideas .... is to awaken, the lake, at once a monastery and the life ...." (Honore de Balzac)
"... when fate seem humored us when choosing a self-imposed exile on Lake Orta: quell'autoconfino regenerator, that delicious paradise lost and found that accepting him and me, Mario Mario, the young and the old, saved us at the last minute by harrowing, exhausting, twisted love affairs and returned the one and the other to his true self. It goes without saying that then recovered, and then keep forever, a sense of reality, beauty and life. "(Mario Soldati)
