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From: The Boston Herald
Date: 19980329
Author:DONNAVAN, Special To The Herald

There can be no place more perfect than the Lakes Region of Italy for beauty and peacefulness. Between Milan and the Alps a necklace of lakes fairly shimmers. Though each - Garda, Maggiore, Como, Lugano, Iseo and Orta - is a jewel, many writers and artists have found that one of the smallest and easiest to tour is also the most enchanting.

"Lake Orta," the French novelist Honore de Balzac wrote, "is an island, simple and graceful, primitive and cozy, solitary and well-equipped, stretching out on its quiet waters: grandeur and tumult are far away, proportions are man-sized once ...

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