Latitude: 45° 48' N |
Longitude: 8° 24' E |
Altitude: 294 m s.l.m. |
Inhabitants: 1.200 |
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Orta San Giulio is situated between Gozzano and Pettenasco and it is the most suggestive place of the lake of Orta, situated in favorable and privileged position, in front of the island San Giulio; it rises on a small peninsula of the oriental coast, overhung by the famous Sacred Mountain, that it has been also Natural Special Reserve since 1980 and it is devoted to San Francesco d'Assisi. The town is characterized by ancient alleys, by characteristic local shops that bring in the central fascinating plaza, which directly leans out on the proper lake in front of the homonym island; in the center there is the Building of the Community of the Riviera, built at the end of Five hundred. Behind the plaza it can be reached the parish church of Santa Maria Assunta through a particular stairway and from here it is possible to reach the Sacred Mountain of Orta to 400 meters altitude. Every Wednesday, there is the characteristic city market.