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Comune di Verbania - Settore Turismo
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Gardens and English gardens on the lakeStudy Day organized by Magazzeno Storico Verbanese. Coordinated by Margherita Azzi VisentiniSaturday 27 September 2014Villa San Remigio, Verbania PallanzaFrom 9.30 am to 1 pm

9.30 am
Margherita Azzi Visentini, architectural historian, Politecnico di Milano
The lake in the vision of the 18th century English landscape garden: from the beginning of the Georgian period to the spread of the taste for the picturesque.

10 am
Villa S. Remigio e Villa Taranto a comparison with the English gardens of the period  
Carola Lodari
Garden expert

10.30am
The “botanical”  friendships of Vitaliano IX Borromeo Arese
Carlo Alessandro Pisoni, Curator of the  Borromeo Archive,  Isola Bella

11.00am
Tea Break

11.30am
Englishmen, gardeners and Italian Lakes. A glance at botanical connections between England and Northern Italy.
Andrew Hornung
Garden expert

12.00 noon
Guido Maspoli, director of the Administration of the Brissago islands and Botanical park of  Canton Ticino
The garden of the Brissago islands and Baroness di St. Léger

ore 12.30pm
Ornella Selvafolta, architectural historian , Politecnico di Milano
Villa Melzi d'Eril a Bellagio: a landscape garden on Lake  Como