| Page Views: 4,195 Last Visit to Lago di Garda: September, 2004 | Italy's largest and nicest lake by Anjutka - last update: Dec 25, 2005 |
Lago di Garda is of good reasons one of the most popular touristic regions of Italy. Great landscapes, a climate which allows a flora found otherwise only much further south and the easy way to reach it both from the sun searching part of Europe north of the Alps and many of the most powerful economic centres of Italy in short distance make it to a destination highly appreciated both among Italians and foreigners. |
Big variety in a rather small area The lake stretches from the Alps into the hilly area near Verona and Brescia.
One can see it as consisting of four different regions. The northernmost and rather narrow part which looks a bit like a Norwegian fjord is quite clearly separated form all the rest, the land there around it was not even accessible from the southern beaches overland. This clear natural border is also separating the Trentino from Veneto (eastern part) and Lombardia (western part). The Trentino part with the resorts Riva and Torbole became part of Italy only in 1919, before that it was for about half a millenium part of Tirol and the Habsburg empire. Some differences are still noticeable today.
Most of the Veneto part consists of originally rather small villages and towns and above them are the steep slopes of the Monte Baldo which is the place offering the nicest panoramic overall view of the whole area, easily reached by a funicular from Malcesine.
Much of the Lombardia part of the lake is without settlements directly at the shore because this consists often of almost vertical rocks. Many of the settlements here are between 100 and 300 meters above these rocks and can be reached on spectacular roads. Where there is more space relatively large towns as for example Salò etc. are found.
From the flat and densely populated Southern end the peninsula of Sirmione stretches like a finger into the lake. |
A wonderful micro climate The excellent protection from cold Northern winds and the big water surface balancing the climatic extremes generates an interesting climate allowing a vegetation which is not found elsewhere in comparable geographic latitudes. Here are the northernmost olive trees of the world, oranges grow on many places and with an extra protection against rougher temperatures even lemon trees are found there in special arrangements built for the purpose. Wine is grown here, too, of course but since it sometimes can not compete with the neighbouring great wines of the Veneto and Trentino it is replaced by many kiwi plantations. Palm trees etc. are found everywhere. And Monte Baldo is very famous for the fantastic flowers after the snow went away in late spring. |
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| Pros: | "great landscape, nice climate, easy to reach" | | Cons: | "not very clean water" | | In A Nutshell: | "in some way the perfect South close to the North" |
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iandsmith Sun Mar 22, 2009 10:54 UTC
Wished I'd spent time at Tremosine! Looks spectacular. Malcesine was nice though. Thank you for sharing. | NC_Ziggy Wed Apr 30, 2008 22:00 UTC
These are great tips and photos of a really neat looking place. I want to go there! Greetings & Best Wishes from North Carolina, Anna! ;-) | Cristian_Uluru Tue Apr 15, 2008 19:23 UTC
Bella pagina!!! Questa settimana stanno girando il film di 007 sul lago! | Fen Mon Mar 31, 2008 10:37 UTC
Hey Anna, Nice to see you have another F&*!ing good page here! Oops sorry another play on words about your pages! :-) |
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