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 […]
The history Peschiera del Garda is located in the southern part of Lake Garda where the only emissary of the lake, called Mincio river flows out. Its ancient name during the Roman colonization in the first century B.C., was Arilica. And up to this day its citizens are still called Arilicensi. The construction of this […]