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Extract from the Stresa Travel Guides:
The Maggiore of the tourist brochures begins at
STRESA
, whose popularity as a resort began in 1906 with the construction of the Simplon Tunnel. Its elegant lakeside promenade is now trodden by elderly visitors for whose benefit the main square in its mellow old centre is filled with ranks of caf tables dedicated to the mass consumption of outsize ice-cream sundaes; at night the cobbled streets sway to the sound of Muzak and accordion players.
The town's hotels are quite expensive, and there's not a lot to do in Stresa other than catch a boat to the Isole Borromee (something that can be just as easily done from any n...
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