TheIsola Madre, located in the center of the Borromean Gulf, is the largest of the islands on Lake Maggiore. At first glance, the visitor who approaches it is struck by the sixteenth-centuryone of the first residences on the lake of the Borromeo counts. The residence, restored in 1978, is home to a museum rich in history, furnishings, furniture, tapestries and paintings from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, without forgetting the surprising Marionette TheatreIsola Madre and its garden offer an immersion in nature thanks to the thousand colors and flowers of rhododendrons, magnolias, azaleas and essences from all over the world. Furthermore, pheasants, peacocks and other colorful birds live freely in the park..