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Lake Garda represents not
only a splendid naturalistic frame for
thousand occasions of sport and culture. It
is a stepping stone among three districts:
Veneto, Trentino-South-Tyrol and Lombardy. A
bridge that joins resort's relax and a huge
range of entertainment and fun.
Apart from the wine and food offer, the
surroundings of Val di Sogno, between the
mountain and the lake nearby Malcesine,
present a real unique menu of sites and
cultural events. On one side amusing
activities to keep fit also during vacation,
having fun with family and friends. On the
other, food for the mind of which nourishing
yourself, alone or in good company, just
following your own rhythm enriching,
learning and making treasure of the artistic
beauties present on the territory.
From Malcesine-Val di Sogno every place can
be reached, above all the splendid cities of
art, music and Italian style.
Three provinces, three different landscapes
and three cultures… a huge range of thins to
discover and visit also in one day time,
thanks to the good combinations of streets
(private or rent car, public bus, local
travel agency’s excursion-bus) and water (boats
for both passengers and cars).
Malcesine is really a good point of start.
It is situated directly on the lake shore,
it has a lovely harbor as well as a
good-managed marina yacht club from where
you can begin a lot of interesting trips and
reach quite all the charming villages
situated on the lake’s side.
It has the fortune to have a modern wholly
rotating cableway to the Monte Baldo
(mountain) which is one of most spectacular
natural atmospheres of the whole alpine arc,
theatre for countless activities: tours,
walks, trekking, mountain-bike, paragliding,
natural ways …
In northern direction at short distance, you
reach Tenno, Ledro and Gresta Valleys with
their small mountain lakes and local
productions. As if by magic, you continue
and meet cities with great tradition and
history as Trento, Rovereto (do not miss the
Mart-Museum of Modern Art) and then Bolzano,
Merano or the more romantic Bressanone and
Vipiteno.
Do not forget a pepping up visit in one of
the many resorts of the "most beautiful
mountains of the world", the famous
Dolomites.
Towards south, at a little distance, there
is Castelletto di Brenzone, meeting point
for spirituality where in peacefulness and
serenity you can pray, learn, meditate and
contemplate the world from another more
inner point of view and make experiences of
faith and devotion.
Going ahead in southern direction you find
the connections with the hinterland, where
to admire the lake from another panoramic
position and to discover a land of wine, the
marvelous Valpolicella area, a real
international attraction for the
magnificence of the countryside and the food
and wine events in progress all the year
round.
Leaving the wine rows here Verona, city of
music embodied by one of the most world-wide
suggestive temples: The Arena. It is also
the capital of "Love", thanks to its
old-fashioned bridges, the taverns and
little shops where to buy local products,
the churches and historical palaces, the
many rests of roman age and of course that
famous balcony of Juliet in the "heart" of
the city. Thanks its position it is also an
extra point of departure for new excursions.
To the West you arrive at Bergamo and the
charming medieval upper town, reachable in
funicular. Then Milan, the fashion and
Italian style city "par excellence" in the
world, home land of shopping for all tastes
and pockets, metropolis rich of social life
and cultural events all the year round. To
the East, by train or car, it does not take
much to arrive at Vicenza, centre of the
international gold and jewels fair, and
proceed to Venice, the most beautiful city
in the world, in the whose atmospheres you
might lose yourself and whose memories will
last your whole life. Southern from Verona,
you turn up into Mantua, centre of the
Italian and European Renaissance, declared
as human heritage site (Unesco).
Remaining on the lake, covering the
Gardesana coast street which joins also all
the villages of the western side from Limone
to Sirmione, you can admire "our" riverside
and the Monte Baldo district from another
viewpoint.
From Val di Sogno-Malcesine you can reach
many easy and quick destinations, some full
of history and other more with
entertainment's facilities. Occasions to
savour the Italian products like real pizza,
homemade ice cream or a good wine glass,
tasted while walking in the old town centres.
You can also abandon yourself to the wildest
entertainments in the Italian number one
amusement park Gardaland or dive into the
aquatic park of Caneva full of attractions,
in the southern part of the lake.
A world of opportunities to enjoy with
friends or family, all interesting and not
to be missed in order to make your free time
really special, adding new arguments of
conversation at your return in the hotel.
Ah, do not your camera!
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