In 1879 Cristoforo Benigno Crespi, a wealthy businessman in the cotton industry bought a piece of land in the peninsula of Orta San Giulio.

From the end of March gardens and villas will welcome Italian and foreign tourists, who reach the Lakes District to spend their first spring weekend.

Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian writer and Nobel Prize winner, said that "Life is not what you've experienced. It's about what you've remembered and the way you can remember it so you can share it".

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