ORTA SAN GIULIO │ITALY

ORTA SAN GIULIO │ITALY
LAKE ORTA SAN GIULIO ITALY ISLAND VIDEO. THE SMALLEST LAKE IN NORTHERN ITALY LAKE REGION BUT LAKE ORTA AND ORTA SAN GIULIO ITALY ARE REALLY BEAUTIFUL!
ORTA SAN GIULIO ITALY IS THE MAIN TOWN ON LAKE ORTA, WHICH IS NAMED AFTER THIS BEAUTIFUL TOWN BUILT ON A PANORAMIC PROMONTORY, WITH THE SACRED MOUNT OF ORTA SAN GIULIO OVERLOOKING THE SURROUNDINGS. THIS PLACE IS A REAL JEWEL TO DISCOVER!

HEART OF ORTA SAN GIULIO IS MOTTA SQUARE, THE TOWN’S SOCIAL GATHERING OVERLOOKING LAKE ORTA, AND STARTING POINT TO REACH THE SAN GIULIO ISLAND BY BOAT IN FEW MINUTES.
THE CURRENT HEADQUARTERS OF THE TOWN HALL OF ORTA SAN GIULIO IS VILLA BOSSI, A RENOVATED VILLA FROM THE 18TH CENTURY, WITH A LOVELY GARDEN OVERLOOKING THE LAKE.
WHILE THE ANCIENT TOWN HALL, CALLED “BROLETTO” DATES BACK TO 1582. FOR CENTURIES IT WAS THE ICON OF THE LEGISLATIVE AND EXECUTIVE POWER ON LAKE ORTA.

THE OLD TOWN OF ORTA SAN GIULIO ITALY IS A PEDESTRIAN ZONE, CROSSED BY A LONG STREET FULL OF SHOPS, RESTAURANTS AND ELEGANT VILLAS. THE POLLUTION PROBLEMS DUE TO THE INDUSTRIALIZATION OF THE SHORES OF LAKE ORTA IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY HAVE BEEN RESOLVED, AND TODAY LAKE ORTA IS A "LIVING LAKE” AGAIN, THE FAVOURITE OF MANY BATHERS AND FISHERMEN FOR THE BEAUTY AND WEALTH OF ITS WATERS, AND ORTA SAN GIULIO ITALY, THE PEARL OF THE LAKE, HAS BECOME AN ELEGANT AND ROMANTIC HOLIDAY DESTINATION.
TODAY I’M GOING TO MEET UP WITH MY FRIEND ALESSANDRA, A LOCAL TOURIST GUIDE WHO WILL SHOW ME THE BEAUTIES OF ORTA SAN GIULIO ITALY.

ALESSANDRA KNOWS THESE PLACE VERY WELL. SHE TELLS ME THAT A VISIT TO ORTA SAN GIULIO IT’S NOT COMPLETE IF WE DON'T GO VISIT ITS SACRED MOUNT, UNIQUE PANORAMIC SPOT AND ALSO A CHARMING PLACE FULL OF ART. THE SACRED MOUNT OF ORTA SAN GIULIO ITALY IS A DEVOTIONAL COMPLEX BUILT BETWEEN THE XVI AND THE XVII CENTURY, MADE OF 20 CHAPELS BUILT BY THE GREATEST ARTISTS OF THAT TIME, DEDICATED TO SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI.
AMONG THE GREAT PERSONALITIES THAT ORTA SAN GIULIO ITALY HAS HOSTED THERE’S ONE OF THE MAIN CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHERS: FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, WHO DESCRIBED THE SACRED MOUNT OF ORTA SAN GIULIO "ONE OF THE MOST EVOCATIVE PLACES IN THE WORLD". IN 1882 THE VERY YOUNG LOU SALOMÉ SPENT FEW DAYS IN ORTA SAN GIULIO WITH THE PHILOSOPHER. IN HER MEMOIRS WE READ THEY SPENT FEW HOURS AT THE SACRED MOUNT OF ORTA, WHOSE CHARMING ENCHANTED THEM SO DEEPLY THAT THEY FELT REALLY EUPHORIC, AND LIVED MOMENTS OF PURE ECSTASY. NIETZSCHE WAS SO ENRAPTURED THAT HE FELL IMMEDIATELY IN LOVE WITH THE YOUNG WOMAN. BUT THEIRS WERE NO MUTUAL FEELINGS! ACCORDING TO HER IT WAS JUST A MOMENT OF RAPTURE IN A SPIRIT OF FRATERNAL COMMUNION. BUT THAT AFTERNOON ON THE SACRED MOUNT OF ORTA SAN GIULIO ITALY WAS A TURNING POINT IN THE PHILOSOPHER'S WAY OF THINKING. FROM THE IMMANENTISM OF HIS PREVIOUS WRITINGS IN A BLINK OF AN EYE HE OPENED THE WAY TO A HEROIC AND TRANSCENDENT ASCETISM, AND FEW WEEKS LATER BEGAN TO WORK ON ONE OF HIS MOST POPULAR BOOKS: “ THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA".

ORTA SAN GIULIO ITALY ISLAND
ALESSANDRA TAKES TO THE BEAUTIFUL SAN GIULIO ISLAND. IT'S THE ISLAND OF SILENCE, IT'S ALL LINKED TO THE CLOISTERED MONASTERY THAT OCCUPIES MOST OF THE AREA OF SAN GIULIO ISLAND. WITH ALSO A BIT OF MYSTERY, BECAUSE IT'S THE ISLAND OF SILENCE BUT IT'S ALSO LINKED TO SNAKES AND THE LEGEND OF SAN GIULIO.
ORTA SAN GIULIO ITALY ISLAND IS A TINY PLOT OF LAND POPULATED IN THE MIDDLE AGES AND NOWADAYS ALMOST ENTIRELY OCCUPIED BY THE BENEDICTINE MONASTERY OF CLOISTERED NUNS. ON ORTA SAN GIULIO ISLAND SEVERAL NOVELS AND THE MOVIE "LA CORRISPONDENZA", BY GIUSEPPE TORNATORE, TOOK PLACE.
SAN GIULIO WAS A PRIEST WHO ESCAPED THE ARYAN PERSECUTIONS IN THE YEAR 390, FROM GREECE, AND GOT ON LAKE ORTA ITALY. HE SAW THE ISLAND AND DECIDED TO BUILD HIS HUNDREDTH CHURCH HERE! THE OTHER 99 HAD BUILT EVERYWHERE ON HIS WAY. NO ONE WANTED TO TAKE SAN GIULIO TO THE ISLAND. SO HE TOOK HIS CLOAK, PUT IT ON THE WATER OF LAKE ORTA, IT FLOATED AND HE GOT TO THE ISLAND ON HIS CLOAK.

LAKE ORTA SAN GIULIO ITALY IS TRULY A MAGICAL PLACE, SOAKED IN HISTORY AND LEGENDS.

THE POLLUTION PROBLEMS DUE TO THE INDUSTRIALIZATION OF THE SHORES OF LAKE ORTA ITALY IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY HAVE BEEN RESOLVED, AND NOWADAYS LAKE ORTA IS ONE OF THE CLEAREST LAKE IN ITALY. WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN YOU WILL NOT RESIST THE TEMPTATION OF A DIVE!

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