{"id":890,"date":"2026-02-04T16:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T16:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ilviaggiatoreincoming.com\/?p=890"},"modified":"2026-02-04T16:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T16:25:07","slug":"visit-to-villa-taranto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilviaggiatoreincoming.com\/de\/visit-to-villa-taranto\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit to Villa Taranto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whoever has been to <a href=\"\/de\/?page_id=401\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Verbania<\/a>, on Lake Maggiore, for a long time or even only for a summer afternoon has certainly visited the <a href=\"\/de\/?p=2514\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Botanical Gardens of Villa Taranto<\/a>. Coming into the gardens of Villa Taranto is just like travelling through foreign lands.<\/p>\n<p>The gardens were established 1931-1940 by Scotsman Neil Boyd McEacharn.<\/p>\n<p>He firstly bought an existing villa with its neighbouring estates and then undertook substantial changes to the landscape, including the addition of major water features employing 8 km of pipes. He then set the name \u201cVilla Taranto\u201d\u00a0 in honour of his ancestor Etienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre MacDonald, named Duke of Taranto by Napoleon.<\/p>\n<p>They opened to the public in 1952 and after McEacharn\u2019s death in 1964 have been run by a non-profit organization which preserves this incomparable botanical treasure and its natural beauties. A visit to Villa Taranto is therefore a must at Lake Maggiore since these gardens reward the visitor with seasonal beauty and natural sceneries.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whoever has been to Verbania, on Lake Maggiore, for a long time or even only for a summer afternoon has certainly visited the Botanical Gardens of Villa Taranto. Coming into the gardens of Villa Taranto is just like travelling through foreign lands. The gardens were established 1931-1940 by Scotsman Neil Boyd McEacharn. He firstly bought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[132,133,134],"class_list":["post-890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-tips","tag-botanical-gardens","tag-lago-maggiore-en","tag-visite-guidate-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilviaggiatoreincoming.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilviaggiatoreincoming.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilviaggiatoreincoming.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilviaggiatoreincoming.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilviaggiatoreincoming.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ilviaggiatoreincoming.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6993,"href":"https:\/\/ilviaggiatoreincoming.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions\/6993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilviaggiatoreincoming.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilviaggiatoreincoming.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilviaggiatoreincoming.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilviaggiatoreincoming.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}