“Parade Grounds Command Building” also “Palazzina Storica” It based in the house where the November 8, 1917 took place the meeting between Vittorio Emanuele III and senior British and French officers. Among the war memorabilia exposed in the two museum rooms are antique weapons, military reporting tools and various original photos, referring to episodes of […]
We recommend beginning your visit from the parking lot west of the Fortress, near 1. Porta Brescia. The imposing sixteenth century fortress is protected by a moat, which was a branch of the Mincio River. Cross the eighteenth century Bridge that leads you to Porta Brescia and after the gate you continue on to the […]
We recommend beginning your visit from the parking lot west of the Fortress, near 1. Porta Brescia. The imposing sixteenth century fortress is protected by a moat, which was a branch of the Mincio River. Cross the eighteenth century Bridge that leads you to Porta Brescia and after the gate you continue on to the […]
Arilica, (the name of the city during the Roman Dominion) had already been fortified, as the foundations of two Roman towers near the bridge over the Mincio seem to demonstrate; moreover Arilica was the basis of Roman lakeside military fleet and such a strategic center had to be forcibly protected from possible external incursions. At […]
Roman Ardelica was a town of Gallia Transpadana that occupied the site of the modern Peschiera del Garda, at the southeast angle of the Lacus Benacus (Lago di Garda), just where the Mincius (modern Mincio) issued from the lake. The name is found under the corrupted form Ariolica in the Tabula Peutingeriana, which correctly places […]
2011 UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE: The Pile dwellings in Peschiera del Garda The Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps include aselection of 111 out of the merely 1000 known archaeologicalpile-dwelling sites in six countries around the Alps including 19sites in Italy and in particular 2 in Peschiera area; Frassino Lakeand Belvedere. This area has remains […]
