Lake towns
Lake towns in Veneto
8 towns
Towns on the northern lakes and the quieter volcanic ones further south. Water without the coast road.
San Zeno di Montagna
Province: Verona · 680 m
A village at 680 meters on the west slope of a mountain, where chestnut groves sit above the eastern shore of a lake.
Costermano sul Garda
Province: Verona · 237 m
A morainal-hill commune at 237 meters above the eastern shore, home to one of the largest German military cemeteries in Italy.
Malcesine
Province: Verona · 89 m
The northernmost Veneto town on Lake Garda, where Goethe was nearly arrested for sketching the Castello Scaligero in September 1786.
Lazise
Province: Verona · 76 m
The walled port granted the right to fortify in 983, considered the first comune in Italy.
Brenzone sul Garda
Province: Verona · 75 m
Sixteen lakeside hamlets strung along Lake Garda's east shore, where olive trees still outnumber the year-round residents.
Peschiera del Garda
Province: Verona · 68 m
The Venetian fortress town on a Mincio island at the southern outlet of Lake Garda.
Torri del Benaco
Province: Verona · 67 m
Lake Garda's east-shore castle town at 67 meters, with a ferry to Toscolano-Maderno and olive groves up to Albisano.
Bardolino
Province: Verona · 65 m
Lake 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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Cicala
Province: Catanzaro
A village of 887 people at 829 meters, founded in 1616 by farmers asking for land.
Fossombrone
Province: Pesaro e Urbino
An inland Marchigiano town on the Metauro river, layered over a Roman colony with a Renaissance ducal court rising above it.
Bagnoli del Trigno
Province: Isernia
The 'Pearl of Molise', a 637-resident borgo built into and around a massive limestone outcrop above the Trigno valley, with a medieval castle rebuilt on its summit.
Varenna
Province: Lecco
A fishing village founded in 769 on the Lecco arm of Lake Como, with a steep grid of streets falling into the water.
Rocca di Botte
Province: L'Aquila
At 750 meters on the Carseolani slopes between Abruzzo and Lazio, the birthplace of an eleventh-century hermit and a fief of the Colonna.