Sights in Torri del Benaco at Lake Garda, Italy

Santi Pietro e Paolo
Built in 1744 and still played, the large church organ is unusual for Italy. Also striking in the Baroque church is the bronze statue of the former parish priest Giuseppe Nascimbeni, who was beatified in 1988. Nascimbeni founded a charitable order of sisters in Torri which mainly works at a hospice in Malcesine.

Santissima Trinità
In the little church located in a corner of Piazza Calderini right by the port you can admire renovated frescos in the style of the Giotto school.

Albisano
‘Balcony of the Garda’ is how poet Gabriele D’Annunzio christened the village of Albisano which is stuck to the ridge of Monte Baldo 2 km above Torri del Benaco. Holidaymakers wishing to take it nice and easy can drive up by car, but those who truly want to earn the marvellous views will prefer to walk. The hiking trail is signposted shortly after it leaves the road to Albisano. The walk lasts 45 minutes at most, but it is still a fairly steep climb. In any case you’ll be forced to take a deep breath at some stage – after all, the view from the terrace of Albisano parish church is breathtakingly beautiful.

Rock engravings near Drero
In addition to the pile buildings at the Lago di Ledro, the rock engravings around Torri del Benaco also point to evidence of early settlement. You can visit some of the engravings at Crero, a little hamlet between Pai and Torri del Benaco. In Crero, take a 10-minute walk up the path right next to Trattoria Panoramico which leads through a wood and eventually to the sign ‘Rupestri’. After a further 10 minutes you’ll arrive at the – not particularly prominent – rock engravings. They depict a game of ‘Nine Men’s Morris’ and some stickmen, though the latter were probably only added in the Middle Ages. Historians are still uncertain as to precisely how old the engravings are.