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Island view

Island view is a bed & breakfast located on the western shore and above the lake of Iseo. You can find our old renovated 'casale' high above the lake with a stunning view at the island. The house lies 300 meters from the main road and is only accessible on foot or with a small 4 wheel drive car. It lies outside the hamlet of Acquaiolo making the location a fairytale site, surrounded by forest and flowered pastures.
Occasionally you might hear a donkey braying, a wild boar or badger roaming while the cuckoo sings his song.

The rooms have an integrated small bathroom with a shower and outside access on a large balcony. In front of the house is a large terrace to dine, play and relax with access to the pastures and hiking paths.
We have a room with a kingsize, two persons bed, and a room with an extendable bunkbed where we can host a couple with one kid.
Our breakfast is occasionally complemented with fresh home-made pies or jams made with berries, cherries or persimmons from our estate.
We take care of five stray cats, they do not enter the rooms and are shy, they will check you out from a safe distance.
When arriving please call us so that we can bring you luggage up to the mountain with our small car. Note that your normal car cannot access the narrow road to our house. It can be parked in the hamlet of Acquaiolo. Three times a day the Arriva bus between Tavernola and Parzanica provides a public transport service. Milan-Bergamo Airport is 40 car minutes from Parzanica.

The village Parzanica is at 20 minutes walking distance, a quite steep hike through the forest and pastures. In the village you can find a small supermarket, a bar/pizzeria and two agriturismo serving typical food of the area. The farm at the edge of the village sells fresh cheese and honey. Several hikes depart from the vilagge, to a little church on a viewpoint above the lake and to the summits of the chalk mountains that make up the small but steep and spectaculair mountain chain between lake Endine and lake Iseo. From the small town Tavernola you can take the ferry to the island and the cities on the other side of the lake such as Iseo and Marone. To swim in the pristine lake Iseo you can hike to a hamlet called Portirone, about 40 minutes down from our house along a safe but steep cemented footpath.

To reach us by car, exit the A4 highway between Milano and Venice at Ponte Oglio, follow SP84 and SP91 to Sarnico, in Sarnico follow SP469 to Lovere. You pass Predore and then Tavernola Bergamasco. Traverse this little town along the lakeshore, after a cement factory you turn left to go up to Parzanica. You will pass a hamlet called Spiglia, 3 u-turns later you will enter the hamlet Acquaiolo. Turn left to the 'center' of the hamlet and park in front of the chapel San Mauro. If you want to use a navigation system direct it to Acquaiolo, frazione di Parzanica.

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