- Isolino Partegora
Isolino Partegora (known locally as "Isulin") is an islet situated at the centre of the gulf of
Angera onLago Maggiore , the only island on the lake to fall within the Italian regionLombardy . Most of the shoreline consists of marshy cane thickets, although there is a sandy beach at the southern edge of the island."Sass margunin", or "margunée", is a submerged
erratic block lying some tens of metres to the west of the island.It is said that the saints Giuglio and Giuliano stopped on the island. Tradition also identifies Partegora as the location of the martyrdom of
Arialdo Alciato , the Milanesedeacon andPatarine reformist who was assassinated in 1076 at the prompting of hisarchbishop ,Guido da Velate . In 1776Alessandro Volta , while a guest of the Castiglioni family in Angera, discoveredmarsh gas , or methane, here.References
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