Sights in Lago Di Garda
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Il Vittoriale degli Italiani
Its heyday is recalled at the fabulous estate Il Vittoriale degli Italiani. Italy’s controversial poet and ultranationalist, Gabriele d’Annunzio (1863–1938) retreated here in 1922 because, he claimed, he wanted to escape the world that made him ill. Visits to d’Annunzio’s house are by guided 25-minute tour only (in Italian, every 10 minutes). The Museo della Guerra (War Museum) records d’Annunzio’s WWI antics – one of his most triumphant and more bizarre feats was to capture a battleship from the fledgling Yugoslavia shortly after WWI, when Italy’s territorial claims had been partly frustrated in postwar peace talks. In July and August, classical concerts, balle…
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Giardino Botanico Fondazione André Heller
More plant life can be admired at Giardino Botanico Fondazione André Heller. The botanic gardens were laid out in 1900 and redesigned in the late 1990s by multimedia artist André Heller. Sculptures by Keith Haring and Roy Lichtenstein sit among some 8000 plant species.
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Castello di Arco
From the medieval village of Arco (population 16,160), 5km north of Riva, a 20-minute stroll through olive groves to Castello di Arco limbers up the muscles for the more strenuous terrain awaiting walkers a few kilometres north.
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