Borromeo's Palance and gardens Tour
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Its name identifies this as the largest of the three islands in the Borromeo Gulf.
Different from the others however, Isola Madre is distinguished by gardens which have preserved their natural aspect, as well as by the presence of exotic birds which fly freely among the centuries-old trees.
Its not unusual in fact to come across Chinese pheasant hens or white peacocks trailing their tails between the budding camellia or the hedges of flowering magnolia.
As on Isola Bella, the gardens here have also been planted on terraces, and include such rarities as the spectacular cypress of Kashmir and a Jubaeae Spectabilis palm of the venerable old age of 125. As English taste dictates, the complex plan of avenues edged with flowering hedges winds through the park and almost seems to have developed naturally, managing as it does to combine botanical species more or less recent, more or less exotic within a fairytale setting.