Alpine Botanical garden spread over an area of 4 hectares at an altitude of 800 meters above the town of Stresa in the Italian region Piedmont on the Western shore of Lago Maggiore. You can get there by cable car Lido di Carciano – Alpine – Mottarone. In the warmer months the garden specializing in Alpine flora, is open daily.

The Botanical garden was founded in 1934, the year Igino Ambrosini and Giuseppe Rossi in place, which offers breathtaking views down to the lake, the Borromean Islands of the archipelago and the surrounding mountains – Lepontine Alps, Monte Disgrazia, Monte Legnone, Grigne, etc. Partially visible from here and the territory of the national Park of Val Grande. At the time of its opening it was one of the first Alpine Botanical gardens of Italy. Until the end of the fascist regime, he was called "Dexia". Today in Alpine Botanical garden grows about a thousand species of plants, mainly concentrated in the Alps and foothills. But there are also species brought from China, Japan and the Caucasus. Here you can see the different types of wormwood, bluebells, cornflowers, carnations, geraniums and Campion. There are also white maple, birch, cane, broom, beech, ash, buckthorn, juniper, loosestrife and other plants.

Close to Alpine Botanical garden has a café and gift shop. A cable car can take you even higher, to the top of mount Mottarone (1491 m). This mountain with grassy slopes parts of the lake Lago Maggiore and Orta. From the top you can admire the panorama of the Ligurian Apennines and Maritime Alps, the massif of Monte Rosa. A real "gem" in this panorama are seven lakes – Lago Maggiore, Orta, Mergozzo, Biandronno, Varese, Monate and Comabbio. Winter Mottarone becomes the main local ski resort.