The Maggiore of the tourist brochures begins at STRESA , whose popularity as a resort began in 1906 with the construction of the Simplon Tunnel. Its elegant lakeside promenade is now trodden by elderly visitors for whose benefit the main square in its mellow old centre is filled with ranks of café tables dedicated to the mass consumption of outsize ice-cream sundaes. If you are here for any length of time, after strolling up and down the promenade past the Grand Hotel des Iles Borromees , which was used as a location by Hemingway in A Farewell to Arms , you might want to laze around at Stresa's Lido (open summer … more »
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