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Smit & Palarczyk > [ITALY.PIEMONTE 01662] 'Isola Bella.'The 'beautiful island', main sight of the Lago Maggiore, is a man made piece of art. The garden is an ode to rationality, typical for the baroque. Strong geometry and symmetry typify the terraces rising high above the lake, adorned with statues and balustrades. At the same time the garden breathes surrealism. Photo Paul Smit.
Smit & Palarczyk > [ITALY.PIEMONTE 01670] 'Gardens of Isola Bella.' Mother and daughter overlooking Isola Bella, the 'beautiful island', main sight of the Lago Maggiore. It is a man made piece of art. The garden is an ode to rationality, typical for the baroque. Strong geometry and symmetry typify the terraces rising high above the lake, adorned with statues and balustrades. At the same time the garden breathes surrealism. You can find lines of sight where the symmetry seems to dissolve. Then you seem to have encountered a stair pyramid in the jungle, designed by Salvador Dali. Photo Paul Smit.
Smit & Palarczyk > [ITALY.PIEMONTE 01677] 'The gardens of Isola Bella.' The 'beautiful island', main sight of the Lago Maggiore, is a man made piece of art. And the garden has no double in the world. Photo Paul Smit.
Smit & Palarczyk > [ITALY.PIEMONTE 01681] 'In the gardens of Isola Bella.' View over Lago Maggiore from the gardens of Isola Bella, indeed the 'beautiful island.' Photo Paul Smit.
Smit & Palarczyk > [ITALY.PIEMONTE 01684] 'Lago Maggiore seen from Isola Bella.' The 'beautiful island', main sight of the Lago Maggiore, is a man made piece of art. An ode to rationality, being baroque, as well a surrealistic dream. Photo Paul Smit.
Smit & Palarczyk > [ITALY.PIEMONTE 01694] 'Angel for half a minute.' A cloud gives a statue wings in the baroque garden of Isola Bella. Photo Paul Smit.
Smit & Palarczyk > [ITALY.PIEMONTE 01697]' In the grotto.' The palace on Isola Bella isn't spectacularly different from other palaces of its kind. But the grottos make worth the visit. Here, below the palace, the Borromeo family, owners of the island and in a way of the whole region, found cool shadow at the heat of the day, in an underwater atmosphere overlooking the garden and the lake. Photo Paul Smit.
Smit & Palarczyk > [ITALY.PIEMONTE 01702] 'Flora.' Flora' in one of the grottos below the palace at Isola Bella. The cool spaces decorated with stones and shells in plaster, forming underwater mosaics, were the best place to be during the heat of day. Photo Paul Smit.
Smit & Palarczyk > [ITALY.PIEMONTE 01706] 'Grotto' Vault of one of the grottos below the palace at Isola Bella. The cool spaces decorated with stones and shells in plaster, forming underwater mosaics, were the best place to be during the heat of day. Photo Paul Smit.

[ITALY.PIEMONTE 01662]
'Isola Bella.'

The 'beautiful island', main sight of the Lago Maggiore, is a man made piece of art. The garden is an ode to rationality, typical for the baroque. Strong geometry and symmetry typify the terraces rising high above the lake, adorned with statues and balustrades. At the same time the garden breathes surrealism. Photo Paul Smit.
Smit & Palarczyk > [ITALY.PIEMONTE 01662] 'Isola Bella.'The 'beautiful island', main sight of the Lago Maggiore, is a man made piece of art. The garden is an ode to rationality, typical for the baroque. Strong geometry and symmetry typify the terraces rising high above the lake, adorned with statues and balustrades. At the same time the garden breathes surrealism. Photo Paul Smit.

[ITALY.PIEMONTE 01662]
'Isola Bella.'

The 'beautiful island', main sight of the Lago Maggiore, is a man made piece of art. The garden is an ode to rationality, typical for the baroque. Strong geometry and symmetry typify the terraces rising high above the lake, adorned with statues and balustrades. At the same time the garden breathes surrealism. Photo Paul Smit.
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