| Arch | ||
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| State | Italy | |
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| Region | Trentino Alto Adige | |
| Territory | Alto Garda and Ledro | |
| Altitude | 91 m a.s.l. | |
| Surface | 63.22 km² | |
| Inhabitants | 17.526 (2015) | |
| Name inhabitants | Arcensi | |
| Prefix tel | 39 0464 | |
| POSTAL CODE | 38062 | |
| Time zone | UTC 1 | |
| Patron | Sant'Anna and Gioacchino (July 26) | |
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Arch is a city of Trentino Alto Adige.
To know
It is the fourth largest city in Italy by population Trentino after Trento, Rovereto is Pergine Valsugana; it is sometimes also referred to by the name of Arch of Trento.
Geographical notes
It is located in theAlto Garda and Ledro between the reliefs behind Riva del Garda a short distance from the lake in the final part of the Sarca river valley which flows from here into the Lake Garda. The position protected by the mountains and the proximity of Lake Garda, allows this area to maintain a particularly mild climate, which makes this city a popular resort for centuries. Patone's cave, a horizontal cave, easy to visit.
Background
Some testimonies and studies on the territory have been able to establish that during the Neolithic period different populations - of still unknown origin - inhabited the areas of the Sarca river plain, founding new settlements in the Bronze and Iron Ages.
In the twelfth century it was occupied by a lordship from the Bavaria who managed to conquer the castle, the latter perhaps erected by the emperor Theodoric, later obtaining the official feudal investiture of Arco from the bishop of Trento.
Arco was therefore one of the places affected by the human and historical events that took place between the eleventh century and the thirteenth century and by the numerous properties that saw the various members of the family as protagonists. Ezzelini. Properties that were widely ascertained, surveyed and documented after their final defeat in 1260.
In the following centuries the village - after being sacked and set on fire several times - became the domain of the Visconti, the Scaligeri and the Republic of Venice. Then followed the annexation to the Empire Austrian and it will be only after the end of the First World War that it will become part of the Kingdom ofItaly.
How to orient yourself
Arco (Italy): full screen map.Arco overlooks Lake Garda to the south, while to the north it is surrounded by mountains. The city has been known and popular as a place of rest and treatment since the Habsburg period; Archduke Albert of Habsburg wanted his winter residence in Arco, the Villa Arciducale, which boasts a lush park, the Arboretum. The Habsburgs embellished the city with parks and gardens, Art Nouveau villas and palaces, as well as the Castle which represents one of the best examples of Trentino.
Neighborhoods
Its municipal territory embraces the towns of Bolognano, Caneve, Ceole, Chiarano, La Grotta, Linfano, Massone, Moletta, Padaro, Pratosaiano, San Giorgio, San Martino, Varignano, Vigne and Vignole.
How to get
By plane
- 1 Bolzano-Dolomites Airport (IATA: BZO) (6 km from the center of Bolzano), ☎ 39 0471 255 255, fax: 39 0471 255 202.
open to the public: 05: 30–23: 00; ticket office opening: 06: 00-19: 00; check-in for flights from Bolzano is only possible from 1 hour to a maximum of 20 minutes before departure. Small regional airport with scheduled flights to and from Lugano is Rome with Etihad Regional (by Darwin Air). At certain times of the year, the Lauda Air company connects the city with Vienna once a week. Instead, charter flights are more numerous. - 2 Verona Airport (Catullus), Boxes of Sommacampagna, ☎ 39 045 8095666, @[email protected].
- 3 Brescia Airport (D'Annunzio), Via Aeroporto 34, Montichiari (Connections with Brescia airport are guaranteed by public transport via the bus. The stop a Brescia city is located at the bus station (number 23), while that of the airport is at the front of the terminal. There are also connections to the city of Verona via bus / shuttle line 1), ☎ 39 045 8095666, @[email protected]. Charter only
open to the public: 05: 30–23: 00; ticket office opening: 06: 00-19: 00; check-in for flights from Bolzano is only possible from 1 hour to a maximum of 20 minutes before departure. Small regional airport with scheduled flights to and from By car
Highway exit Rovereto south - Lake Garda north on the A22 Brenner motorway.
The provincial road 118 connects it to Riva del Garda it's at Dro.
Highway exit 
The provincial road 118 connects it to On the train
TO He died railway stop on the Verona - Innsbruck line; railway station a Rovereto; from Rovereto to Arco bus connection.
TO By bus
Connections through the Trentino Trasporti bus lines [1].
Connections through the Trentino Trasporti bus lines How to get around
By public transport
Public transport connects the Municipalities of Arco, Riva del Garda is Nago-Torbole. It is distributed on four lines: the circular lines 1 and 2 that connect Arco and Riva del Garda and their respective hamlets; line 3 which connects Arco, Riva del Garda and Nago-torbole and line 4 inside the town of Riva del Garda. Timetables are available on the website of Trentino transport[2] who manages the service.
What see
- 1 Sanctuary of Santa Maria delle Grazie, via Dante Alighieri 9, ☎ 39 0464 519800. The sanctuary and the adjacent convent were built between 1475 and 1492 at the behest of the local count. In the following centuries the building underwent several renovations, but the lowered arches and some columns with smooth capitals dating back to the primary fifteenth-century construction are still clearly visible in the cloister.
- Inside the sanctuary there is a wooden statue depicting the Virgin Mary most likely dating back to the 15th century.
- 2 Church of Sant'Anna. It is located near the Collegiate Church of the Assumption. It was consecrated in 1652 by an Albanian bishop and in 1900 it was, in addition to a place of worship, also a winter health center. The bell tower was damaged by the bombing of the Second World War. : The paintings found in the sacristy represent Sant'Andrea and other saints and the whole church was painted by the local painter Antonio Zanoni.
- 3 Collegiate Church of the Assumption, 3 November Square. The construction works were undertaken in 1613 on the remains of an ancient and previous church of Romanesque origin whose foundation dates back to between the 4th and 9th centuries and which is mentioned for the first time in a document dated 1144. Nothing has been preserved. of the ancient medieval building, which was demolished in 1613 to make way for the current factory designed by the imperial architect Giovanni Maria Filippi da Dasindo. The works, also financed by the various communities in the area, lasted for a few decades until 1630 when they had to be interrupted due to the violent epidemic of plague which decimated - almost three thousand victims - the Arcense community; it was finally officially consecrated on May 15, 1671.
- Inside the collegiate church - with a single nave - there is a marble statue dedicated to the Assumption, perhaps the work of the sculptor Gabriele Cagliari of Verona. Among the altars present five are the work of Domenico Rossi, the fourth on the right is dedicated to the Blessed Sacrament - closed by an iron and brass gate - while the second altar on the left is dedicated to Mary Magdalene sculpted by the brothers Cristoforo and Sebastiano Benedetti di Castione .
- Above the first altar on the left there is an altarpiece depicting the Madonna with the Child Jesus, two angels and St. Michael the Archangel by Felice Brusasorzi. The wooden choir loft is the work of Giacomo Benedetti di Desenzano del Garda, completed in 1731.
- Adjacent to the presbytery are the two entrances in the floor that lead to an underground tomb where in the past the canons of the collegiate and the local counts were buried. In the last years of the 19th century, the body of Francis II of the Two Sicilies, the last monarch of the Kingdom of Naples, who died in Arco in 1894.
Church of the Holy Trinity
- Church of the Holy Trinity. German Church of the Evangelical Lutheran Community of Merano. It was built by the Evangelical community of Arco in 1903 and in the postwar period entrusted to the Collegiate Church of Arco; it was dedicated to St. Therese of the Child Jesus and blessed in 1934. Since 1970 it has been used and managed by the Evangelical Community based in Merano. It is a valuable neo-Gothic building, with a steep imbricated roof.
- Church of Sant'Apollinare (in Prabi). The church is of Romanesque origin and is located in the hamlet of Prabi. The façade and the exteriors were frescoed between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, while the interior houses valuable frescoes from the fourteenth century.
- Church of San Martino, Viale S. Francesco, 3, ☎ 39 0464 516184. Located in the locality of San Martino, the church was completely rebuilt during the sixteenth century and inside there are several cycles of frescoes from the Italian Renaissance period.
- Church of San Rocco. Located in the hamlet of Caneve, its construction dates back to the fourteenth century.
- Sanctuary of Madonna di Laghel. Built in 1700 in Baroque style, it stands at the top of the steep Via Crucis. A "dead Jesus", the work of the artist Josef Moroder-Lusenberg from Gardenia, was placed in the tomb after the restoration of the sanctuary on March 19, 1896.
- Via Crucis of Laghel. Capitals with wooden reliefs of the Passion of Christ by Josef Moroder Lusenberg. The Via Crucis of Laghel already around 1690 was erected and equipped with 14 capitals by Count Gianbattista d'Arco along the boundary wall of his properties in the current Via dei Capitelli in Arco.
- Marchetti Palace. The building, originally called Palazzo di San Pietro, dates back to the sixteenth century and is located on the east side of the Collegiata dell'Assunta. The building was owned by the counts of Arco until the mid-nineteenth century when it was sold to Saverio Marchetti, a judge from Bolbeno.
- Inside the palace there are several cycles of frescoes from different eras and painters, while at the southern entrance of the noble building a portal attributed to the painter and sculptor Giulio Romano of Rome is clearly visible.
- 4 Palace of the Cloths. The building dates back to the last decades of the 17th century and its construction was commissioned by Count Gianbattista d'Arco; the strong testimony of the noble Arcense family is still visible on the portal where the noble coat of arms of the Andrea branch stands out.
- Towards the end of the 18th century the building was purchased by Giovanni Battista Marosi, a priest of Bolognano, who transformed the structure into a wool building from which the name of the Cloths would be derived. The decision to convert the noble palace into a small wool industry was desired by the priest to face the strong crisis of unemployment and misery that was raging in the country.
- The wool mill was in business for a few years and once closed it became, for the whole of the nineteenth century, the seat in the following years of various municipal bodies such as the fire station, kindergarten and city theater. At the beginning of the twentieth century the building hosted several boys from the Institute of Providence and with the advent of Fascism it changed its name to Palazzo del Littorio.
- The building - which has taken on its ancient name - is the seat of the Bruno Emmert Civic Library, bibliophile of Arco, and of the Giovanni Segantini Atelier. The sculpture in the internal courtyard of the building by the local sculptor Renato Ischia is dedicated to Segantini. The rooms of the atelier are used by the Municipality of Arco as a venue for cultural conferences and exhibitions of artistic and historical interest.
- The Palace also houses the Civic Gallery "G. Segantini" arcense seat of MAG Alto Garda Museum
- 5 Civic Gallery "G. Segantini", Via G. Segantini, 9 - Palazzo Panni, ☎ 39 0464 573869, @[email protected]. Closed for works until spring 2020. There Civic Gallery "G. Segantini" of Arco, named after the pointillist painter Giovanni Segantini (Arco, 1858 - Schafberg, 1899), is housed in the Palazzo dei Panni and is one of the two exhibition venues of the MAG Alto Garda Museum, together with Riva del Garda Museum.
- The exhibition consists of a traditional exhibition part with paintings, graphic works and historical documents about the artist, and an interactive part.
Castle - frescoes
Castle
- 6 Castle. The city develops on the slopes of a rocky cliff from which the magnificent medieval castle dominates the entire valley of theUpper Garda. Originally the castle was practically a fortified village defended by mighty walls and a good sighting system thanks to the towers on the various sides of the nucleus. The whole complex consisted of the two towers Renghera, located in the highest part of the cliff, e Great as well as several buildings such as the prison rondello, the blacksmith's workshop, the cellar, the mill and three cisterns.
- According to some sources, its construction originated in the Middle Ages, built by the inhabitants of Arco and only later became the property of the noble Arcense family who dominated these lands. The castle was abandoned during the eighteenth century also following the siege by French troops in the summer of 1703 commanded by the French general Luigi Giuseppe di Borbone-Vendôme.
- An accurate restoration in 1986 and others in the following years, commissioned and carried out by the autonomous province of Trento and the Municipality of Arco, allowed the discovery and recovery of some cycles of frescoes depicting knights and ladies of the court of the medieval era.
- Arco Castle attracts thousands of visitors every year offering an enchanting view of the area and a visit to suggestive ruins. According to some, the houses in the historic center, arranged in an arch around the cliff of the ancient castle, give the town its name, another current of thought says that the name derives from the Latin Arx, arcis la rocca, precisely due to the presence of this important fortification work.
Sites of naturalistic interest
- 7 Arboretum. The arboretum is an area inserted in the previous Arciducale Park wanted by the Archduke Albert of Habsburg, the latter cousin of Franz Joseph I of Habsburg and who established his residence in Arco in 1872 by erecting the Villa Arciducale, and extended to one hectare.
- The project for the construction of the botanical garden was entrusted in the sixties of the twentieth century to Walter Larcher, professor of botany at the University of Innsbruck.
- The arboretum, rich in tree and shrub species, further increased its cultural and scientific value after 1992 when the "Tridentine Museum of Natural Science" in Trento he started several projects for the re-evaluation of the entire botanical area; the works were started in 1993 by the Environmental Restoration and Enhancement Service of the autonomous province of Trento. Also in the same year, new agreements between the Municipality of Arco and the Trento museum ensure that the arboretum becomes a branch of the museum itself.
- The plant species conserved are approximately 150 and come from different geographical areas such as southern and central Europe, eastern Asia, the Americas and African regions.
Entrance to the cave
A narrow passage inside the cave
- 8 Patone's cave (Bus del Diaol; Nigol bus; cave at the 1st Ghana; cave of Ceniga; Arco cave). It is a horizontal cave, that is, with a limited height difference, but with an extension for the length of about 800 meters. It can be reached from the state road 45 bis Gardesana Occidentale, north of Arco, in the locality of La Molletta, near San Martino a Patone at a height of 225 meters. Along the road, near the Giare farm, there is a gravel pit. Parked, you take an uncomfortable path, steep and landslide, which ends by climbing the bed of a former torrent (canyon), after half an hour you arrive at the entrance of the cave (about 300 meters above sea level).
- To visit it it is recommended to be accompanied by some speleologist, or in any case to have some experience of caves. The visit lasts 2-3 hours, plus the hours to free the siphon (usually 2-3).
- The entrance on the western flank of Mount Stivo is very large, very similar to a gigantic open mouth, for some similar to that of the devil, and develops entirely in the limestones of the Lias.
- The cave has 5 siphons, which divide it into two sections, of which the second is accessible only after having freed the 3rd siphon from the sand. The birth of the cave is due to the fact that a torrent, now dry, came out of it.
- To enter you must immediately go down a 2-meter boulder, perhaps using a ladder, and just beyond the first siphon, which is almost always open. Here, going forward, you reach a gate. The first section has a length of 350 meters, and ends with the 3rd siphon, generally obstructed by the presence of sand, unless some visitor has already passed it recently. This siphon is located at an altitude of -21 meters from the entrance, the lowest point of the entire cave.
- To get to the beginning of the second section, it is therefore possible to remove the accumulated sand, using the tools that are on the spot (shovels and buckets), with an average work of 2-3 hours.
- Once you have reopened a narrow passage, you can slip into the second section, which is much more fascinating than the first. This section has a development of about 500 meters and ends in the 5th siphon completely covered by sand. In the past, the caves group of the SAT of Arco made surveys and excavated to try to find out where the cave ended up but to no avail. In fact, it seems that this 5th siphon is particularly long and according to the experts' voices it could end up in a large, hitherto unexplored hall.
- The year of the cave's discovery is not known, and neither is its first discoverer. Historically it is only recorded in a writing by Vincenzo Zucchelli, who visited the cave together with some friends on December 27, 1885. Other explorations are also dated in the following years, until some scholars, including Battisti and Trenner, at the end of '800 took an interest in it. From his studies he also moved on to tourist guides, up to his first relief in the period between 1925 and 1938.
Events and parties
- Rock Master Festival. in August. World sport climbing competition
What to do
- The free-climbing its main center is in Arco; here in fact every year the Rock Master, a world climbing sports competition that attracts athletes from all over the world.
- A cycle path starts from Arco and leads to Lido di Arco on Lake Garda; the resort offers a free equipped beach. The Sailing and windsurfing center.
Shopping
In its territory an excellent olive oil is produced; Arco is part of theNational Association City of oil.
How to have fun
Where to eat
Average prices
- 1 Pace pizza restaurant, Via Vergolano, 42, ☎ 39 0464 519495.
- 2 Al Fiume restaurant pizzeria, Piazza Italia, 17, ☎ 39 0464 517683, @pizzeriaalfiume.com.
- 3 League restaurant, Via Vergolano, 8, ☎ 39 0464516205.
- 4 La Cantinota pizza restaurant, Via Linfano, 50, ☎ 39 0464 548230.
- 5 Trattoria Belvedere, Via Serafini, 2, ☎ 39 0464 516144.
- 6 The Portrait Restaurant, Via Ferrera, 30, ☎ 39 0464 512958.
Where stay
Moderate prices
- 1 Hotel Cattoi, Viale Rovereto 64 Arco, ☎ 39 0464517070. A star
Average prices
- 2 Hotel Olivo, Viale Roma 2, ☎ 39 0464 516430, fax: 39 0464 514702, @[email protected].
- 3 Pace Hotel, via Vergolano, 50 =, ☎ 39 0464 516398, fax: 39 0464 518421, @[email protected].
- 4 San Giorgio hotel, Via S.Giorgio 2, ☎ 39 0464 521056, fax: 39 0464 521074, @[email protected].
- 5 Hotel Al Sole, Via Foro Boario, 5A, ☎ 39 0464 516676, fax: 39 0464 518585, @[email protected].
- 6 Baia Azzurra Hotel, Via Gardesana 33, ☎ 39 0464 505168, fax: 39 0464 505196, @[email protected].
- 7 Everest Hotel, Viale Rovereto 91, ☎ 39 0464 519277, fax: 39 0464 519280, @[email protected].
- 8 Hotel Villa Franca, Via Lungo Sarca, 8 (in Linfano), ☎ 39 0464 505162, fax: 39 0464 505788, @[email protected].
- 9 Palace Hotel City, Via Roma 10, ☎ 39 0464 531100, fax: 39 0464 516208, @[email protected].
Campsites
- 10 Campsite Arco, via Czechoslovakian Legionaries 12 (in the locality of Prabi), ☎ 39 0464 517491, fax: 39 0464 515525, @[email protected].
- 11 Camping Bellavista, Via Gardesana, 31 (in Linfano), ☎ 39 0464 505644, fax: 39 0464 505166.
- 12 Camping Lido di Arco, in Linfano, ☎ 39 0464 505077, fax: 39 0464 548668, @[email protected].
- 13 Camping Maroadi, in Linfano, ☎ 39 0464 505175, fax: 39 0464 506291, @[email protected].
- 14 Zoo Camping, Via Legionari Cecoslovacchi, 24 (in the locality of Prabi), ☎ 39 0464 516232, fax: 39 0464 519673.
Safety
Pharmacies
- 4 Bettinazzi, Via Galas, 49, ☎ 39 0464 514157.
- 5 Municipal Oltresarca, Via della Stazione, 6, ☎ 39 0464 514588.
- 6 Redi, Via Nas, 3, ☎ 39 0464 516214, fax: 39 0464 519460.
- 7 Venezian, Via Negrelli, 12, ☎ 39 0464 519080.
How to keep in touch
Post office
- 8 Italian post, Schotten square, ☎ 39 0464 588949, fax: 39 0464 588940.
Around
- Riva del Garda - Elegant center at the northern end of Lake Garda, it maintains the atmosphere of a holiday resort of the Austro-Hungarian nobility of the nineteenth century.
- Castle of Tenno
- Lake of Tenno
- Ledro lake - Popular for summer holidays, it is also known for the remains of piles from the Bronze Age.
- Tenno canal - A medieval town, it is one of the most beautiful villages in Italy.
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