Museo Casa del Podestà-Fondazione "Ugo da Como"
Lonato
(11 Km)
The Casa del Podestà Museum - Fondazione “Ugo da Como” was founded around the fifteenth century and together with the Rocca complex and the former prisons constitutes the buildings managed by the homonymous Foundation. The Museum has approximately 52,000 volumes and several manuscripts and prints. Of particular interest are the letters of Ugo Foscolo dedicated to Countess Marzia Martinengo and several drawings by Tiepolo.
Rocca di Lonato
Lonato
(11 Km)
The Rocca di Lonato dates back to the tenth century, when it was built on top of the relief of the morainic amphitheater in the center of Lonato del Garda. Its function was to defend and protect the surrounding city. Under the management of the Visconti, the walls were extended to the inhabited village. After passing ownership to the Gonzaga and the Republic of Venice, since 1920 the structure has been managed by Ugo Da Como and its Foundation.
Rocca di Manerba del Garda
Manerba del Garda
(11 Km)
The Rocca di Manerba del Garda was most likely built in the Middle Ages. Only the foundations remain of the castle since, in 1573, it was destroyed at the behest of the Venetian Provider. Today, the numerous finds found on site are kept at the Archaeological Museum of Valenesi.
Castello di Moniga
Moniga del Garda
(9 Km)
The Castle of Moniga del Garda was built around the tenth century to cope with the ungarian invasions. Compared to other castles inhabited by local lords, this fortress was used only by the people who took refuge in their environments in the event of danger. The building has preserved its architectural structures up to the present day.
Chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta
Vobarno
(12 Km)
Rocca
Sabbio Chiese
(11 Km)
Museo Civico Ornitologico
Lonato
(23 Km)
The Ornithological Civic Museum was inaugurated in 1996. It exhibits about three hundred specimens that are part of the Collection of the Municipality of Lonato, purchased in 1979 by the “Don Calabria” Institute. The museum structure expanded in 2000 with the addition of windows with Brazilian birds and migratory birds from Lake Garda.
Museo Civico della Valtenesi
Manerba del Garda
(11 Km)
Since 1973, the Civic Museum of Valtenesi has been located within the Visitor Center of the Archaeological Naturalistic Park of the Rocca. The exhibition is divided on two levels where archaeological, landscape and naturalistic finds from the territory of Manerba del Garda are hosted.
Museo del Vino e del Cavatappi
Mazzano
(9 Km)
The Mazzucchelli Museums consist of the Museum of Fashion and Costume, Wine and Corkscrew Museum and the Giammaria Mazzucchelli House Museum. The Wine and Corkscrew Museum offers the public a large collection of 2000 pieces among vintage corkscrews and other objects concerning wine cultivation. Of great interest are also the panels that illustrate the techniques and the various phases of cultivation and processing until you reach the last phase, that of bottling wine.
Castello di Drugolo
Lonato
(7 Km)
The Castle of Drugolo or Castello Averoldi was built before the year 1000 with the main function of a convent. The first owner is believed to be Rataldo Averoldo to whom the building was donated by Ottone I of Germany. Below he passed into ownership of different families until he reached the Barons Della Quara, who still own it today. The Castle has a square plan divided into different floors and with drawbridge at its entrance.
Torre Civica
Lonato
(11 Km)
The Civic Tower is one of the historical and characteristic monuments of the city of Lonato. The construction was started in 1555 and featured an onion dome, then modified to a short overbuilding adorned with battlements. Characteristic was the hammer sound of the bells that regulated the life of the Lonatesi.
Mura del Castello di Moniga con parco
Moniga del Garda
(9 Km)
The castle is well preserved, perhaps because having never been inhabited by a gentleman it has not suffered looting and destruction. The castle built in the tenth century did not undergo major architectural upheavals.
Museo Archeologico della Valle Sabbia
Gavardo
(4 Km)
The Museum houses the exhibits coming from the Valle Sabbia, from the stilts of Lucone di Polpenazze, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and from the Roman necropolis of Salò: cave bears, pyrogae, mythological water bottles and more.
Basilica Minore
Lonato
(11 Km)
Example of Baroque architecture, built on a project by the Lonatese Paolo Soratini. The aerial dome and the façade decorated with marble elements are remarkable. In 1980 he received from the Pope the title of Basilica Minor. It is enriched inside by frescoes, stuccoes and altarpieces by Venetian authors, including Balestra, Cignaroli and Licino.
Abbazia di Maguzzano
Lonato
(10 Km)
The ancient Abbey of Maguzzano at the end of the 8th century stood on a Roman road. In 1491 it was entrusted to the monastery of S. Benedetto in Polirone and was adorned by the Risorgimento Church and the elegant cloister. The church preserves an Altarpiece, the work of the Moretto school.
Fornaci Romane
Lonato
(16 Km)
South of Lonato, lies the "Furnace of Eddies", where recently were found six Roman brickworks. They seem to bear witness to the presence of an important craft complex, dating to the 1st-2nd century AD, that has probably supplied building material for the construction of several buildings and villas in the neighboring territory.
Museo Storico del Nastro Azzurro
Salo'
(10 Km)
The Historical Museum of the Nastro Azzurro, managed by the Federation of the Province of Brescia del Nastro Azzurro, was founded in 1943 at the headquarters of the Municipal Palace. Today, the Museum is located in the prestigious Palazzo Fantoni, where military decorations and relics are welcomed in the exhibition halls that document the thirteenth-century history of the Italian Soldier.
Galleria Entroterra
Rezzato
(9 Km)