The Alpinia Botanical Garden is situated in Alpino, at 800 meters high over Stresa, it has a overlooking on Lake Maggiore: a real natural balcony, where you can relax and stay in touch with the nature.
This natural balcony has a Belvedere’s house where you can sit on comfortable benches and experience the wonderful view.
In Alpinia Garden there is a circular path: if you start to the left side first, you pass through the forest and then to Belvedere’s, otherwise if you choose the right side you pass through the flowering garden and directly to the panoramic view.
During the path you can find a natural spring coming from Mottarone’s peak summit (1,492 m), a really good refreshment on summer days.
This Garden has more than 700 plants: different species come from all over the world, in particularly alpine plants, but you can also find Asian and American species. The Alpinia’s symbol is the Gentian, a little pretty purple-blue flower very rare and special.
Alpinia was founded in 1934 by Iginio Ambrosini and he transformed a simple grazing land into a botanical garden, a real paradise area.
At the beginning the area was about 12000 msq, nowadays we have 40000 msq and every single zone has a story to tell.