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10 alternatives to staying in Verona
Comuni within an hour of Verona with at least one recognition. 10 towns shown, nearest first.
Table no. 47 · Ranked by min · 10 towns
Verona in opera season quotes prices that assume you have no alternative. You have several: recognized comuni within an hour, on the lake shore, the Mincio, the wine hills.
Nearest first. The arena is still forty minutes away; your evening piazza just stopped charging admission.
- 1.Valeggio sul Mincio26 minVerona · VenetoA moraine-hills town at 88 meters between Garda and Mantua, with a 1393 Visconti bridge-dam over the Mincio and a tortellino called the love knot.
- 2.Peschiera del Garda33 minVerona · VenetoThe Venetian fortress town on a Mincio island at the southern outlet of Lake Garda.
- 3.Castellaro Lagusello37 minMantova · LombardyA walled medieval borgo south of Lake Garda, ringed by 13th-century stone walls and overlooking a small heart-shaped natural lake that gives the village its second name and most-photographed silhouette.
- 4.Monzambano37 minMantova · LombardyA Mincio commune at 88 meters in the moraine hills west of Mantova, whose frazione Castellaro Lagusello sits on a heart-shaped lake inside fortified walls.
- 5.Sirmione39 minBrescia · LombardyA 4-kilometer peninsula reaching into the southern Garda, its tip closed by a fortified port and a Roman villa.
- 6.Lazise40 minVerona · VenetoThe walled port granted the right to fortify in 983, considered the first comune in Italy.
- 7.Lonato del Garda42 minBrescia · LombardyA hilltop commune on the southwestern Garda morainic ridge, with a Visconti castle and a private library of 52,000 volumes.
- 8.Volta Mantovana42 minMantova · LombardyA morainic hill town between Mantua and the countryside where a Renaissance palace was built inside a medieval castle.
- 9.Sant'Ambrogio di Valpolicella42 minVerona · VenetoThe Valpolicella DOC gateway northwest of Verona, where the Gargagnago frazione anchors Amarone production and a hilltop frazione holds a Lombard-era pieve.
- 10.Bardolino44 minVerona · VenetoLake Garda's east-shore wine town at 65 meters, where Corvina and Rondinella grapes have made Bardolino and Chiaretto since the Roman period.
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