02/08/2025
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Not Como. Not Garda. Not Maggiore.
When we want a real summer escape — peaceful, slow, and heartbreakingly beautiful — we go to Orta San Giulio.
It’s a tiny town on a forgotten lake in northern Italy.
Stone alleys. No traffic. No chaos.
Just a handful of trattorie, a quiet piazza, and a lake that looks like a watercolor.
You won’t find it on a Top 10 list.
But if you ask an Italian where we go when we need to breathe?
This is it.
You take the little wooden boat to Isola San Giulio — a monastery island where silence is part of the atmosphere. The whole island takes 10 minutes to circle. It might stay in your heart forever.
There’s a path above the town called the Sacro Monte di Orta — a UNESCO site with Renaissance chapels scattered through a forest. You’ll find barely anyone there, just you and the birds and views across the lake that don’t look real.
Just Italy, the way we still love it.
