Here we present only an excerpt of some main villages, which can easily be reached from Bardolino.
Garda
Well known center of the Verona coast, its name comes from the lake. Carved between greens covered hills of vineyards and inside a splendid gulf, enriched by the romantic cape of Saint Vigilio, it conserves an interesting inhabited nucleus, with ancient houses, alleys, squares.
Lazise
Center of the Southeastern coast of the Garda lake, it conserves its historical print thanks to the old scaligere walls still encircling it, maintaining the fascination of ancient constructions and characteristic old streets.
The main aquatic park of Garda lake is on its territory.
www.comune.lazise.vr.it
Verona
A very visited international tourist attraction, today it is the second town in Veneto for life and economic activities. The sweet handles of Adige river that cross it and the hills that encircle it determine the beauty and the landscape harmony. Its historical center has been called from Unesco "historical and cultural patrimony of the humanity".
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Venice
Venice is a city more than ever dedicated to the art in all its shapes. The historical art can be visited in its numerous museums. There you can find the most beautiful works made by the greatest artists who have made the history of art. Simply taking a walk you will be constantly encircled by palaces and churches with astounding architectonic structures, a real museum under the open sky.
www.comune.venezia.it
Vicenza
Vicenza settles in a fertile field of the Po river, between the Berici hills and the Lessini mountains. The historical center conserves majestic famous monuments, well known all over the world like the Olympic Theatre and the Palladio Church in the elegant "Piazza dei Signori" (Lords Square).
www.comune.vicenza.it
Mantua (Mantova)
To the south of Garda lake, in Mantua territory, a few kilometers from the coast, there are greens hills originated from ice deposits which in the farthest ages have formed the lake. Between these sweet hills, authentic treasures of art and history hide. But this is also the reign of the good traditional Mantua food, served from restaurants in which it is worth to go. "Doc" wines of Mantua Moranici hills make good company with traditional food.
Valeggio sul Mincio
Valeggio, on the Mincio river, is famous becasuse of its landscape beauties and the artistic patrimony, and for good food too: the numerous restaurants offer to the guests the best food of the local tradition, as an example the tortellini of Valeggio.
Custoza
A natural environment, in which hills and valleys have been formed for materials accumulation and for erosion of the ice of Garda lake, and later on sweetened and modelled by atmospheric agents and the water. Here cohabit ecosystems in equilibrium , in cultivated fields, uncultivated zones and small woods.
The spontaneous flora is particularly rich and interesting from the botanical point of view, while the fauna represents an element worthy of attention.
Sirmione
The reputation of Sirmione comes form the amenity of the place, the splendor of the landscape, the sweetness of the climate, the rests of a huge roman villa - the "Caves of Catullo" - and the solforose water source that brings life to a modern thermal complex.
Soave
In the immense and characterized panorama of valuable Verona wines, there is an ideal symbiosis between atmosphere and vineyards, ideal for the production of great wines. The territory around the country of Soave has always been the earth of white wines, with its castles, churches, bell towers and rich patrizie villas that emerge hardly from the sea of the vineyards, to be witnesses of a territory rich of history, tradition, strongly connected to its main product.
Bolca
A site placed between the Verona and Vicenza PreAlps mountains, where you can discover the amazing world of fossils in a unique environment.
The fossils deposits of Bolca are aged to the Inferior Eocene Era (48 million years), formed in an atmosphere of carbonatica platform, with the arising of many atolls in a tropical climate. Calcar stones were formed in a high energy environment, whereinvertebrates bones can be found within.
Mount Baldo (Monte Baldo)
The two slopes of the mountains have a completely different look. The western, towards the Garda Lake, is steep and covered of vegetation, with walls and towers of rock and big valleys. The eastern slope is less rocky and rich of grass fields; it does not come directly from the Adige river, but it raise before parallel to the main crest, forming therefore the walloon where Spiazzi and Ferrara di Monte Baldo are located, and then it falls in Atesino valley.
www.funiviedelbaldo.it
Lessini Mountains (Monti Lessini)
The northern part of the province of Verona, commonly named Lessinia, is made of a wide plateau. The Verona mountain, with its valleys in the south, it is a climate hinge between Po plain and Alpine world. The variety of its climate has been created by the gradual slope of the ridges, the elevated autumn-spring rainfall of the high Lessinia, the deep river rifts, the dryness of carsica limestone cliffs and millenia of farmer works.
www.parks.it/parco.lessinia
La Madonna della Corona
The sanctuary of Madonna della Corona (Crown Madonna) rises close to Spiazzi, 770 meters of altitude, and it is engraved in a wall of rocks that comes down as a peak on the Adige river.
It is one of the most famous and visited religious cult places in Italy.
There are many stories and legends about its origins.
The original nucleus of the construction was built around 1530, and has always had the function of hosting the stone statue of "the mercy", still worshipped.
Garda
Well known center of the Verona coast, its name comes from the lake. Carved between greens covered hills of vineyards and inside a splendid gulf, enriched by the romantic cape of Saint Vigilio, it conserves an interesting inhabited nucleus, with ancient houses, alleys, squares.
Lazise
Center of the Southeastern coast of the Garda lake, it conserves its historical print thanks to the old scaligere walls still encircling it, maintaining the fascination of ancient constructions and characteristic old streets.
The main aquatic park of Garda lake is on its territory.
www.comune.lazise.vr.it
Verona
A very visited international tourist attraction, today it is the second town in Veneto for life and economic activities. The sweet handles of Adige river that cross it and the hills that encircle it determine the beauty and the landscape harmony. Its historical center has been called from Unesco "historical and cultural patrimony of the humanity".
VeronaCard
Venice
Venice is a city more than ever dedicated to the art in all its shapes. The historical art can be visited in its numerous museums. There you can find the most beautiful works made by the greatest artists who have made the history of art. Simply taking a walk you will be constantly encircled by palaces and churches with astounding architectonic structures, a real museum under the open sky.
www.comune.venezia.it
Vicenza
Vicenza settles in a fertile field of the Po river, between the Berici hills and the Lessini mountains. The historical center conserves majestic famous monuments, well known all over the world like the Olympic Theatre and the Palladio Church in the elegant "Piazza dei Signori" (Lords Square).
www.comune.vicenza.it
Mantua (Mantova)
To the south of Garda lake, in Mantua territory, a few kilometers from the coast, there are greens hills originated from ice deposits which in the farthest ages have formed the lake. Between these sweet hills, authentic treasures of art and history hide. But this is also the reign of the good traditional Mantua food, served from restaurants in which it is worth to go. "Doc" wines of Mantua Moranici hills make good company with traditional food.
Valeggio sul Mincio
Valeggio, on the Mincio river, is famous becasuse of its landscape beauties and the artistic patrimony, and for good food too: the numerous restaurants offer to the guests the best food of the local tradition, as an example the tortellini of Valeggio.
Custoza
A natural environment, in which hills and valleys have been formed for materials accumulation and for erosion of the ice of Garda lake, and later on sweetened and modelled by atmospheric agents and the water. Here cohabit ecosystems in equilibrium , in cultivated fields, uncultivated zones and small woods.
The spontaneous flora is particularly rich and interesting from the botanical point of view, while the fauna represents an element worthy of attention.
Sirmione
The reputation of Sirmione comes form the amenity of the place, the splendor of the landscape, the sweetness of the climate, the rests of a huge roman villa - the "Caves of Catullo" - and the solforose water source that brings life to a modern thermal complex.
Soave
In the immense and characterized panorama of valuable Verona wines, there is an ideal symbiosis between atmosphere and vineyards, ideal for the production of great wines. The territory around the country of Soave has always been the earth of white wines, with its castles, churches, bell towers and rich patrizie villas that emerge hardly from the sea of the vineyards, to be witnesses of a territory rich of history, tradition, strongly connected to its main product.
Bolca
A site placed between the Verona and Vicenza PreAlps mountains, where you can discover the amazing world of fossils in a unique environment.
The fossils deposits of Bolca are aged to the Inferior Eocene Era (48 million years), formed in an atmosphere of carbonatica platform, with the arising of many atolls in a tropical climate. Calcar stones were formed in a high energy environment, whereinvertebrates bones can be found within.
Mount Baldo (Monte Baldo)
The two slopes of the mountains have a completely different look. The western, towards the Garda Lake, is steep and covered of vegetation, with walls and towers of rock and big valleys. The eastern slope is less rocky and rich of grass fields; it does not come directly from the Adige river, but it raise before parallel to the main crest, forming therefore the walloon where Spiazzi and Ferrara di Monte Baldo are located, and then it falls in Atesino valley.
www.funiviedelbaldo.it
Lessini Mountains (Monti Lessini)
The northern part of the province of Verona, commonly named Lessinia, is made of a wide plateau. The Verona mountain, with its valleys in the south, it is a climate hinge between Po plain and Alpine world. The variety of its climate has been created by the gradual slope of the ridges, the elevated autumn-spring rainfall of the high Lessinia, the deep river rifts, the dryness of carsica limestone cliffs and millenia of farmer works.
www.parks.it/parco.lessinia
La Madonna della Corona
The sanctuary of Madonna della Corona (Crown Madonna) rises close to Spiazzi, 770 meters of altitude, and it is engraved in a wall of rocks that comes down as a peak on the Adige river.
It is one of the most famous and visited religious cult places in Italy.
There are many stories and legends about its origins.
The original nucleus of the construction was built around 1530, and has always had the function of hosting the stone statue of "the mercy", still worshipped.
