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Monte Isola
$22.00
The largest lake island in southern Europe, about four and a half square kilometres, rising four hundred metres above Lake Iseo. Cars don't run here. The mail comes by ferry from Sulzano, the bread arrives by little boat at Peschiera Maraglio, and people get up the hill by foot or bicycle, or on the small bus that loops the shore. At the summit the Madonna della Ceriola sanctuary has watched the lake since the late fifteenth century. In 2016 Christo wrapped a saffron-yellow walkway around the south end and a million people came. Then the walkway came up. The island stayed.
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