Gardone Riviera

Gabriele D'Annunzio lived at Gardone Riviera from 1921 to 1938, turning a lakeside estate into the Vittoriale, complete with the bow of a warship set into the hillside. The mild climate of Lake Garda's western shore, where palms, citrus and capers grow, had already made this farming village a fashionable resort by the late 19th century. Above the lakefront rise the slopes of the Alto Garda Bresciano park.

Highlights

• Il Vittoriale degli Italiani, D'Annunzio's house, gardens and museums
• The cruiser Puglia and the MAS 96 motorboat in the Vittoriale grounds
• The André Heller botanical garden, first laid out by Arthur Hruska
• Villa Alba, a grand neoclassical villa from the early 1900s
• Walks in the mountains west of the village

Text adapted from Wikipedia (Gardone Riviera (IT), Gardone Riviera (EN)), Wikivoyage (Gardone Riviera (IT), Gardone Riviera (EN)). Available under CC BY-SA 4.0.