LAKE MAGGIORE

Cannero Riviera faces Luino, and takes its name from the namesake stream at back of which there is Mt. Carza (116 meters). In front of this popular tourist spot, emerge two rocky tiny islands with the suggestive ruins of the celebrated Castelli di Cannero: all that remains of the villa-castle Vitaliana that at the beginning of the 16th cent. Ludovico Borromeo had built on the ruins of the old castles called Malpaga, belonging to the Mazzarsiti, overbearing squires of the zone in the 14 - 15th cent. and dismantled by Filippo Maria Visconti in the early years of the 15th cent.