@article{article_810078, title={T HE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE OF THE VILLAS AND GARDENS OF LAKE MAGGIORE. CONSERVATION PROBLEMS}, journal={TÜBA-KED Türkiye Bilimler Akademisi Kültür Envanteri Dergisi}, pages={201–206}, year={2011}, author={Lodarı, Renata}, keywords={Maggiore Gölü,kültürel peyzaj,villa,bahçe,koruma sorunları}, abstract={The Lake Maggiore western coast environmental characters nowadays record a particular instance of cultural landscape building workshop, completely modified by anthropic action. Today, the garden system of western coast of the Lake, hardly structures the perceptible landscape physiognomy and configures as a green stripe almost uninterrupted, a sixty kilometres frame, made up of exotic vegetation, in the most part of it, bordering the bound­aries between water surface and the surface of the hills that are reflected in. The massive garden landscape sys­tem, where it is possible to find a huge and eclectic architectural heritage, has modelled itself, overlapping the natural original morphology, in a meanwhile relatively close in comparison to the complexity of its environmental, botanical, architectural and cultural values. All these topics are still today perceptible even considering the unavoid­able changes come as time goes by. The intense lake-landscape modification process with the building ofvillas and gardens has taken place between 1850 and the 20ies of last Century. In the aftermath, as far as the World War Two, the phenomenon began to lose its firmness, considering single examples of Garden-Villa rarely achieved in stylistic terms and, gen­erally, it took starting its slow decline. Decline going to be comprehensive also of a partial decay in the follow­ing fifties, as far as the current awareness of its value and consequent safeguard necessity. Since some years the Regional Administration has been stipulating a census work program of the gardens and villas of Lake Maggiore with the Museo del Paesaggio di Verbania ^Landscape Museum of Verbania as part of a larger asset, now completed, of the entire garden heritage all overRegione Piemonte cataloguing and this with the intention to set up correct safeguard and valorisation actions for these important cultural heritages}, number={9}, publisher={Türkiye Bilimler Akademisi}