It is the last town on the lower lake before we meet, following the Western Lakeside Highway, rocky cliffs and mountains that drop straight into the lake. It has an enchanting and characteristic port, and a hinterland that is rich with small urban settlements. This was an important Franciscan center in the 13th century and, one hundred years later, became the capital of a group of towns in the Magnifica Patria. The facades of the houses overlooking the port still bear the signs of the cannon bombardment the Austrian flotilla carried out in 1866. (Source: http://www.traveleurope.it)
Picturesque health resort on Lake Garda probably founded
by Rome.
It was under the dominion of the lords of Desenzano in the XIth century, the
Castelbgargnano family in the fourteenth century and, from the middle of the fifteenth
century, it was under the Republic of Venice, becoming the main town in the coastal area.
There are vast citrus orchards in the surrounding territory.
The church of S. Francis,
built in the thirteenth century, has a single nave. It was
extensively reconstucted in the seventeenth-eighteenth centuries.
Next to it a porticoed cloister has a fine fifteenth-century portal and Roman marbles.
Villa Feltrinelli
is an eighteenth-century house now owned by the University of Milan,
where summer courses are held for foreign students.
Villa Bettoni of Bogliaco (approx 2 km), is an eighteenth-century
building immersed in gardens ornated with statues.
It has a collection of paintings by Guido Reni, Canaletto
and others.
(Source:
http://www.gardalake.it)
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