Bardolino

Bardolino is located on the eastern shore of Lake Garda, 30 km. from Verona, on a hilly territory narrow between the lake to the west, and to the east the morainic hill separating the lake and the Adige valley in its final part where it flows into the Po Valley. Bardolino is 68 m. above sea level. The fact that Bardolino has been inhabited for a long time is demonstrated by the numerous finds found, which testify to a life in Roman times, such as coins, stones, tombstones, sculptures. Also many focal place names testify to a Latin civilization. Leftovers of Roman buildings have been discovered everywhere, for example at the base of the Rocca (mountain between Bardolino and Garda), you can still see remains of large walls, large stone boulders. A hint of history "With the passage of the Venetian people to Rome, all of Gaul and Venice were united in a single province" makes it easy to understand how Bardolino began a social life no less than Sirmione, which boasted the villa of Catullus, also visited by Julius Caesar, in the first decades BC. The primitive castle of Bardolino, mentioned in an act of 1100 and of which today the two gates and the rectangular tower situated on the lakefront remain, is thought to have been built towards the end of the 9th century. Consisting of strong walls and towers, it enclosed the centre of the old town.