Holidays in Gardone Rivera at Lake Garda, Italy
On these shores, everything moves at a gentle pace, tourism just as well as the strolling holidaymakers on the Lungolago promenade. Even in the summer season you will always find a free table in the cafés without difficulty. If you come to Gardone, don’t miss its beautiful gardens and parks – they are well worth a visit. Climb one of the steep lanes leading uphill from the shore and marvel at the age-old cypresses and magnolia trees. In early summer you can even discern the perfume of jasmine and oleander in the air. The gardens, the grand villas and quaint hotels are witnesses of the great holiday tradition that Gardone had in the past.
Today, however, the
dignity of those days is largely gone by and instead, many visitors you meet
here are eager to practice the handful of Italian words that they learned back
home to be able to order their cappuccino correctly. The Lungolago D’Annunzio
is a pleasant place to stay longer; while you are there the fact that the village of Gardone itself does not lie directly on
the lake, but further uphill, is easily overlooked: Gardone Sopra has in fact
fallen behind at a time when every table of every café had to offer a view of the
lake. Yet it is here that the roots of the village with its 2500 inhabitants
lie. The old-fashioned houses are grouped around the parish church of San Nicola
which is surrounded by a narrow street with a stunning lake panorama. The most
important tourist attraction is doubtlessly the “Vittoriale degli Italiani”,
the villa that the poet and dandy Gabriele D’Annunzio chose as home in which to
spend the last years of his life.
| Tourism Office Gardone Riviera | |
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Gardone Riviera Corso Repubblica,35 25083 Gardone Riviera Tel: +39 03 6520347 Fax: +39 03 6520347 |
