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Arona, in brief.

Lake Maggiore town, colossal San Carlo statue.

A lakeside town on the southern shore of Lake Maggiore in the province of Novara, looking across the water to the Rocca di Angera on the Lombard bank.

A colossal seventeenth-century copper statue of San Carlo Borromeo, born here, rises on the hill above.

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