
Poppy Harvey-Jones
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Seen from the South, the present work takes in both Isola Bella and Isola Madre in the Golfo Borromeo of Lake Maggiore. The latter island, the largest of the archipelago, was the first to be acquired by the Borromeo family in 1501. The following century Carlo III Borromeo decided to develop the smaller island and named it Isola Isabella in honour of his wife Isabella d'Adda. His son Vitaliano then commissioned the construction of the palace and imported vast quantities of earth to build the ten terraces that make up the garden.