Bagolino

Bagolino sits at 778 meters in the Valle del Caffaro, the right flank of the Valle Sabbia, on the road that runs from Brescia to Lake Idro and over the Crocedomini pass into Val Camonica. The name probably traces to Pagolus, small village; the place was a Roman horse-changing station before anything else. From the seventh century it sat in the Lombard duchy of Trento, then under the prince-bishops of Trento until the Venetian Republic took it over.

The Chiesa di San Giorgio, designed by Giovanni Battista Lantana and built in three years in the early seventeenth century, is the third largest church in the province, with works attributed to Titian, Tintoretto, Palma il Giovane and Pietro Mera. The Carnevale di Bagolino runs three days each February: Balari in inherited costumes, dancing to the violin and guitar of the Sonadur in tunes closer to Austria than Brescia. Bagòss, the saffron-tinted hard cheese, is still made here from Alpine Brown cow milk, about 10,000 wheels a year.

From Milan (BGY), about 1h 44m by car.

Verona (VRN) is about 1h 48m away.

By car from the centre of Brescia 1h 16m or Trento 1h 36m.

Coming by train into Brescia? Bagolino is about 1h 14m away by road.

Every town within reach of Milan airport.