Lake Maggiore is located in northern Italy and extends into Switzerland. It is 193 meters high, covers an area of 212 square kilometers, and is the westernmost of the three major prealpine lakes in Italy. The lake is 68 kilometers long and its width varies from 3 to 5 kilometers wide, reaching 10 kilometers at its widest point between the towns of Pallanza and Stresa.

2. Lake Maggiore (or Verbano) is at
a height of 193 m and covers an
area of 212 square km. Its
western shore is in Piedmont, its
eastern shore in Lombardy, and
in the north it enters the Swiss
canton of Ticino.
Lake Maggiore is the most
westerly of the three great
prealpine lakes of Italy. It
extends for about 70 km
between Locarno and Arona.
Lake Maggiore is 68 km long,
with a breadth which varies from
3 to 5 km, except at the bay
opening westward between
Pallanza and Stresa, where this
reaches 10 km.

3. Arona

4. Arona

5. Baveno

6. Baveno

7. Brissago

8. Brissago

10. Cannobio

11. Cannobio

12. Cannobio

16. Locarno

17. Locarno

18. Stresa

19. Stresa

20. Stresa

21. Stresa

22. Stresa

23. Stresa – Villa Pallavicino

24. Stresa - Hotel

25. Stresa

26. Pallanza – Villa Taranto

27. Pallanza – Villa Taranto

28. Monastery of Santa Caterina del Sasso

29. Monastery of Santa Caterina del Sasso

32. Ronco
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