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Located on the Piedmont's shore of Lake Maggiore between Intra and Pallanza, the garden has beene created starting from 1932 in the estate that captain Neil McEacharn had purchased from the marquise of Sant'Elia with the ambition of creating a botanical complex of international standing.
Born in the south of Scotland in 1884, McEacharn came from a wealthy aristocratic Scottish family, thing that allowed him to devote himself full time to the great passions of his life: botany, gardening and travelling. He was therefore, one of the few impassioned gentlemen who succeeded in touring the world repeatedly (it seems 7 times, the first of which when he was only 16) always searching for new plants to acclimatize in his gardens.
The Captain managed to reconcile aesthetic and the botanical demands in the best way, secceeding in creating a garden with plants of great botanical value, as he had previously done in his castle in Scotland. With an assiduous and patient job he succeeded in transforming the 16 hectares of the estate in an real heaven rich of suggestive sceneries in which flower-beds, little ponds, parterres, woods, fountains, lawns alternate and where one can find plants of the whole world, which form collections of great scientific value that now count over 8.500 units between species and variety.
McEacharn lived in Villa Taranto until his death in April of 1964, but already in 1938 he had given this jewel to the Italian State, reserving himself the usufruct, while in 1952 decided to open it to the public to share his experience.
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Address
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Via V.Veneto 111
28922 Verbania-Pallanza (VB)
Amministrazione
tel/fax 0323-556667
Biglietteria tel. 0323-404555
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Informations
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From 26th March to 1st November, every day uninterruptedly from 8,30 to 18,30.
In October from 8,30 to 17,00 |
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Tickets
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Adults € 9,00
Children (from 6 to 14 years old)
€ 5,50;
Group over 20 people per person € 7,00;
School groups per person €4,50
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Facilities
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VISITS: Are without guide.
All the plants have a label with their name on. It is advisable to follow the way showed by the numbered arrows and to buy the Guide of the Garden.
PARKINGS are free. Boats station of Navigazione Lago Maggiore.
OTHER PLACE OF INTEREST: PALLANZA, Museum of the Landscape and the church Madonna di Campagna of '500; STRESA the famous Borromeo's Island.
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