WHICH ARE THE 4 MOST BEAUTIFUL LAKES IN ITALY?

Clear waters lapped by lush vegetation. Here is the ranking compiled by our users of The Most Beautiful Italian Lakes ideal for swimming and to combine the sun and water with the charm of mountains, countryside and villages. 

Mirrors of green water or the color of the sky.

The Most Beautiful Italian Lakes are small wonders to be discovered and could be a valid alternative to the usual vacation by the sea in summer.

The pleasure of sun and water is combined with the charm of the countryside and the mountains, the gourmet delights of the typical products of villages and towns and the appeal of cultural events.

Lake Garda

Lake Garda is one of the favorite destinations for those on vacation in Verona or Valpolicella. Ideal for relaxing, recharging your batteries or doing sports activities in contact with nature.

It can be reached by train, car or plane from the main cities of northern Italy.

A blue expanse, in which is reflected Mount Baldo and all the mountains that carefully surround this freshwater basin.

Breathtaking views, picturesque medieval villages and spectacular nature. A perfect combination to start in the best way your vacations on Lake Garda.

Peace and serenity, sports and entertainment, nature and art, tradition and modern comforts satisfy the vacation desire of many tourists and regulars of this area all year round.

The possibilities of excursions are unlimited, even in the hinterland, hidden and suggestive: cultural excursions, naturalistic, sports and pure fun.

Lake Maggiore

Lake Maggiore is one of the most beautiful Italian lakes that has enchanted great Italian and foreign artists who have stayed here. Considered the largest of the pre-alpine lakes, hence the name “Maggiore”, is of glacial origin and its shores are in Lombardy, Piedmont and Switzerland.

Surrounded by mountains and hills that shelter it from the cold northern winds, the lake sees among its tributaries the Ticino, which has traced a historic waterway connecting the Po Valley with Central Europe. Between Stresa and Verbania, of great charm the archipelago of the Borromean Islands with Isola Madre, Isola Bella and Isola dei Pescatori.

Characteristic are also the three rocks called Castles of Cannero with the remains of the Vitaliana fortress wanted by Count Ludovico Borromeo.

Not to be missed, in addition to the small island of La Malghera and the Isolino Partegora, the beautiful Isolino di San Giovanni in front of Verbania, where, in the seventeenth-century Borromeo Palace, Arturo Toscanini lived for a long time.

Lake Bolsena

Lake Bolsena, fifth largest in Italy, is located in northern Lazio, on the border with Umbria and Tuscany, in the main caldera of the volcanic complex Vulsinio.

The inhabited centers, rich in history, both on the shores and on the ridges of the mountains Volsini, are many.

Starting from Bolsena and following the panoramic road clockwise, we find in order: Bolsena, the city that gave its name to the lake, Montefiascone, with the most beautiful overall view of the lake, Marta, the main and active fishing port, Capodimonte, on the picturesque promontory that juts out into the lake, Valentano, with its wide panorama dominating the basin of the lake, Gradoli, on a spur of tufa within the craterical enclosure, Grotte di Castro, preserves the charm of the medieval structure, San Lorenzo Nuovo, a perfect example of urban planning of the eighteenth century, Isola Bisentina, attractive and sinuous like a beautiful woman and Isola Martana, the famous island of Queen Amalasunta.

Lake Como

It is also known with the name of Lario, from the Latin Larius as the Romans called it (Lacus Larius).

Nowadays it is little used, but we find it in the name of some coastal towns (Abbadia Lariana, Mandello del Lario, Gera Lario and others) and it is used to identify that piece of land between the two branches of the lake that forms a triangle with the vertices respectively in Bellagio, Como and Lecco: the Larian triangle.

Lake Como offers us a succession of views that remind us of the Norwegian fjords: carved between the chains of the Orobian Pre-Alps, which make it fascinating and special, especially on the eastern side.

The western side instead offers spectacular villas renowned for their gardens and for the history and art that they contain.

Lake Como has also reflected important personalities of national and international caliber: Ugo Foscolo, Stendhal, Byron, Giuseppe Verdi, Vincenzo Bellini, Gioachino Rossini, even Napoleon and Winston Churchill. Obviously we cannot forget Alessandro Manzoni who made it the protagonist of the first Italian novel: I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed).