Italy
NW Italy
Piedmont

Isola Madre

Isola Madre, at 220 m wide and 330 m long, is the largest of the Isole Borromee archipelago is in the part of in the , in the Province of Verbano Cusio Ossola, Piedmont.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Madre island botanical gardens and Palazzo Borromeo.

Park
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The Giardini Botanici dell'Isola Madre are historic botanical gardens located on the grounds of Isola Madre in the of , accessible by ferry from , Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, , .

Museum
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is a museum.

Islet
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is an island in in northern Italy. As the most northerly of the three principal it is also known as Isola Superiore and, with a population of 25 in 2018, it is the only one to be inhabited all year round.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pallanza and Suna.

Suburb
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is a district of the Italian comune of . It is located in the Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, on the bank of .

Suburb
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is a suburb.

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is a quaint town of 4,500 residents near on the shore of the Borromean Bay, a western arm of , in , .

Isola Madre

Latitude
45.91162° or 45° 54′ 42″ north
Longitude
8.538° or 8° 32′ 17″ east
Elevation
217 metres (712 feet)
Open location code
8FQCWG6Q+J5
Open­Street­Map ID
way 155318267
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­islet
Geo­Names ID
6693889
Wiki­data ID
Q1555998
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In Other Languages

From Breton to Ukrainian—“Isola Madre” goes by many names.
  • Breton: “isola Madre”
  • Cebuano: “Isola Madre”
  • Chinese: “母亲岛”
  • Corsican: “isola Madre”
  • Danish: “isola Madre”
  • Dutch: “Isola Madre”
  • French: “isola Madre”
  • French: “Isola Madre”
  • German: “Isola Madre”
  • Indonesian: “isola Madre”
  • Italian: “Isola di San Vittore”
  • Italian: “isola Madre”
  • Italian: “Isola Madre”
  • Italian: “Isola Maggiore”
  • Japanese: “イゾラ・マドレ”
  • Japanese: “マードレ島”
  • Low German: “isola Madre”
  • Persian: “جزیره مادره”
  • Polish: “Isola Madre”
  • Portuguese: “Isola Madre”
  • Romanian: “isola Madre”
  • Russian: “Мадре (остров)”
  • Russian: “Мадре”
  • Spanish: “Isola Madre”
  • Swedish: “isola Madre”
  • Tahitian: “isola Madre”
  • Turkish: “isola Madre”
  • Turkish: “Madre Adası”
  • Ukrainian: “Острів Мадре”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Isola Madre”. Photo: Zairon, CC BY-SA 4.0.