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David Roberts visits Baveno on Lake Maggiore and considers British railway barons, Queen Victoria, Field Marshal Sir Jan Smuts and a wartime tragedy at Baveno on Lake Maggiore.

26 Jul Meina is a small village on the Western side of Lake Maggiore, between Arona and Stresa, it is not a large resort , just a tranquil spot with lovely view up the lake towards Switzerland and across to Anghera. In the 1930s, there were just two hotels there, the Hotel Meina and the Hotel Verbano. The Hotel Meina was to become infamous as the site of a massacre.