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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Campi Salentina
Province: Lecce
A Salento plain town fifteen kilometers north of Lecce, rebuilt after the Saracen raids of 926 and later raised to a marquisate.
Loreto Aprutino
Province: Pescara
A hilltop town at 290 meters in the Aprutino olive country, with a fourteenth-century Judgment fresco and a Castelli majolica collection.
Ascea
Province: Salerno
Two villages, a hilltown at 230 meters and a Cilento marina, with Parmenides and Zeno's Eleatic school in the ruins of Greek Velia below.
Vico del Gargano
Province: Foggia
A Gargano hill town at 445 meters where a Norman castle, a kiss alley, and DOP citrus terraces step down toward the Adriatic.
Mantova
Province: Mantova
A Gonzaga capital at 19 meters, encircled on three sides by lakes the Mincio formed in the twelfth century, UNESCO-listed together with Sabbioneta since 2008.