{"id":10901,"date":"2025-08-07T14:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T14:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travel.ribo.it\/?p=10901"},"modified":"2025-08-22T15:47:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T15:47:54","slug":"monte-isola-the-green-mountain-in-the-middle-of-the-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.ribo.it\/en\/travel-postcards-en\/monte-isola-the-green-mountain-in-the-middle-of-the-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Monte Isola: the green mountain in the middle of the lake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Monte Isola<\/strong>, the &#8216;green mountain in the middle of Lake Iseo&#8217; and the &#8216;green-gold&#8217; island, the so-called precious local olive oil, has been officially designated as a \u2018place of particular natural and environmental relevance\u2019 and one of <strong>&#8216;The most beautiful villages in Italy&#8217;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is the largest lake island (approximately 9 km-perimeter) in southern Europe. Here, nature engages visitors and residents in immersive experiences, surrounded by green olive trees, cultivated fields, fruit trees and vineyards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Public car-free spaces and streets are planned and managed in respect of <strong>sustainable principles<\/strong>, supporting <strong>eco-friendly tourism<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2016, although Monte Isola was undoubtedly one of Lake Iseo&#8217;s great achievements for the international event <strong>\u2018The Floating Piers\u2019<\/strong>, created by the Bulgarian-American artist Christo Vladimirov Javacheff, now stands out as a  valuable destination away from <strong>mass tourism<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The twelve characteristic villages represent places where visitors and tourists can experience local culture, thanks to typical island hospitality and ancient traditions such as crafts, fishing, and olive oil production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here, richness is not equal to waste of money or luxury accommodations but natural beauty and precious artisanal handwork, like making fishing nets or organizing traditional island events, the <strong>\u2018Flower Festival\u2019<\/strong> in <strong>Carzano<\/strong> and <strong>Novale<\/strong>, for instance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the past, the \u2018San Giovanni of Sardines Festival\u2019 celebrated poor local food, offering residents and visitors grilled sardines or those preserved in oil and then dried.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, this celebration disappeared over the years. It is therefore understood that, keeping old traditions alive, is really a matter of great importance nowadays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, Monte Isola&#8217;s culinary icons, like sardines for instance, are really appreciated by italian and foreign visitors, as an essential, tasty and typical island food choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monte Isola, the &#8216;green mountain in the middle of Lake Iseo&#8217; and the &#8216;green-gold&#8217; island, the so-called precious local olive oil, has been officially designated as a \u2018place of particular natural and environmental relevance\u2019 and one of &#8216;The most beautiful villages in Italy&#8217;. It is the largest lake island (approximately 9 km-perimeter) in southern Europe. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-postcards-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.ribo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.ribo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.ribo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ribo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ribo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10901"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ribo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10941,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ribo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10901\/revisions\/10941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ribo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.ribo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ribo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ribo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}