The Funivia Malcesine-Monte Baldo, Europe’s first cableway with completely swiveling cabs, connects the town of Malcesine situated on Lake’s Garda shores with the top Monte Baldo (1.800 meters) in few minutes.
It is an extraordinary open-air sport and leisure place where both amateurs and experts of all kinds of sport can follow their favourite activity in the midst of a uncontaminated landscape. Thanks to its microclimate this area is characterized by warm, airy summers (average 24°-32°) and mild winter months with daily temperatures of the months from December to February between 5 and 15 degrees under normal weather conditions. Therefore very similar the Mediterranean climate.
The snow, which covers the summit of the Monte Baldo some winter months, longs in large quantities and falls only rarely below a sea level of 700-800 meters. Exceptionally it snows also until the lake shore and covers with a bizarre white blanket the town of Malcesine. But the snow remains only briefly, often only some hours long.
This and other factors, as the lake’s water and winds, deliver the warmth stored in the summer during the cold season and lead to a favorable environment, in which a rich assortment of flowers and plants develops and mark the always color-glad landscape, those colors, which already fascinated the famous writer Goethe during his “Trip to Italy”.
The rich collection of flower, found on the Monte Baldo and since that 18th Century studied and listed by students and botanists confirmed still in our days the title assigned at those ancient times to the Monte Baldo: the Garden of Europe (Hortus Europae).

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