Miss Italia
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Miss Italia is a beauty pageant awarding prizes every year to young, female contestants from Italy. Since the first edition of the contest, in 1939, many of the contestants have gone on to notable careers in television and film.
Image: Sophia Loren (third from left) in publicity images from the Miss Italia contest, 1950
Image: Naples, Miss Italia 1950 Sophia Loren
Image: A young Sophia Loren, aged 15, at a beauty contest in Naples, Italy
Image: Missitalia 1971.4
Stresa
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Stresa is a comune (municipality) of about 4,600 residents on the shores of Lake Maggiore in the province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, in the Italian region of Piedmont. about 90 kilometres (56 mi) northwest of Milan. It is situated on road and rail routes to the Simplon Pass.
Stresa and Lake Maggiore
The Grand Hotel in Stresa
The cable car to Monte Mottarone
Villa Pallavicino