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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Visso
Province: Macerata
The northern Sibillini gate at 607 meters where the Nera meets the Ussita, holding one of two surviving manuscripts of Leopardi's L'Infinito.
Goriano Sicoli
Province: L'Aquila
At 720 meters in the Subequana valley, a medieval village drawn by M.C. Escher in 1929 keeps a May ritual folklorists trace to Demeter.
Ugento
Province: Lecce
A Messapian-Roman town five kilometers from the Ionian, where a Baroque castle sits on the walls of the ancient city of Ozan.
Fontanellato
Province: Parma
A Parma-plain town built around the Rocca Sanvitale, the moated fortress at its center.
Pescina
Province: L'Aquila
A Marsica town at 735 meters, on the rim of the drained Fucino basin, that lost five thousand of six thousand people in a single morning in 1915.