Castellaro Lagusello - Castellaro Lagusello

Castellaro Lagusello is a center of the Mantuan in Lombardy.

To know

Castellaro stands on a hill overlooking a heart-shaped lake. The town is part of the most beautiful villages in Italy and has been awarded the orange flag by the Italian Touring Club.
In 2011 it was declared by UNESCO World Heritage.

Geographical notes

Immersed in a prestigious naturalistic context, the area is inserted in the protected area of ​​the Nature reserve Moraine complex of Castellaro Lagusello is in the Mincio Regional Park.

When to go

It can be visited all year round, but the best season is spring.

Background

The village has very ancient origins. A bull of Pope Eugene III of 1145 mentions the Plebem de Castelaro. The fortification began in the 12th century with the erection of the walls and ten towers, now reduced to four. The village was long disputed by the lords of the time: Bonacolsi, Scaligeri, Visconti, Gonzaga and the Republic of Venice.

How to orient yourself

• 45.3749210.634721 Rest area, near piazza Gen. Orlandi. 
• General Orlandi Square
• Via Castello
• Via Lazzaretto

How to get

By plane

The nearest airports are:

• 45.6661869.7018082 Bergamo-Orio al Serio Airport (the Caravaggio), Via Aeroporto 13, Orio al Serio, ☎ 39 035 326323. 
• 45.39666710.8877783 Verona Airport (Catullus), Boxes of Sommacampagna, ☎ 39 045 8095666, @[email protected]. 
• 44.821810.296034 Parma airport (G. Verdi), Via Emilia - Golese locality, ☎ 39 0521 951511. 
• 44.5352811.291165 Bologna airport (G.Marconi), Via Triumvirato 84, ☎ 39 051 6479615. 

By car

• From Mantua city: SS 236BIS per Marmirolo, continue for the SP 21, SP 27, continue for Valeggio sul Mincio, then for the SP 28, SP 74 and follow the signs for Monzambano;
• From the Mantova Nord tollbooth: Exit the A22 motorway, take the SS 236BIS for Marmirolo, continue for the SP 21, SP 27, continue for Valeggio sul Mincio, then for the SP 28, SP 74 and follow the signs for Monzambano;
• From the toll booth of Sirmione: Exit the A4 motorway at Sirmione, continue for Pozzolengo, take the SP 18, SP 74 and follow the signs for Monzambano.

On the train

• 45.4389510.702126 Peschiera del Garda railway station, Viale Station. On the Milan-Venice line. 
• 45.4625510.536147 Desenzano del Garda railway station, Einaudi square. Served by Frecciabianca for Milano Centrale, Torino Porta Susa, Trieste Centrale and Venezia Santa Lucia; from Frecciarossa to Brescia and Roma Termini and from regional to Milano Centrale and Verona Porta Nuova. 

By bus

Line LN034 Brescia-Castellaro di Brescia transport.

How to get around

By car

Parking areas for campers

Nearest equipped rest area:

• 45.3553910.720158 ^{[link not working]}Borghetto rest area, Provincial road 55 Viscontea - Borghetto di Valeggio sul Mincio, ☎ 39 045 7950486, @[email protected]. The equipped area is available all year round, equipped with water, drainage well and lighting. Children playground. 

What see

• 45.3733110.635811 Castle, Via Castello. Built in the 12th century and adapted by the Scaligeri, lords of Verona, it has always been much disputed due to its strategic position. It passed from the hands of the Visconti, the Gonzagas and the Serenissima Republic of Venice. In 1600 it was ceded by the Serenissima Republic of Venice to the Arrighi Counts who transformed a part of it into their residence. 

• 45.3730110.63572 Church of San Nicola, Via Castello. It was rebuilt on a pre-existing Romanesque temple between 1741 and 1743. The interior of the church has a single nave. 

• 45.3723410.63483 Oratory of San Giuseppe. The oratory, in Baroque style, is adjacent to Villa Arrighi and was built in 1727, as shown by the writing on the facade. Private. 

• 45.3721410.634814 Villa Arrighi, ☎ 39 0376 88979, @[email protected]. From the 17th century. In 1796 it hosted Napoleon and his headquarters. Napoleon III stayed there in 1859 after the battle of Solferino and San Martino. 

• 45.3719210.634965 Walls. Erected in the twelfth century to defend the village. 

• 45.3705610.637446 Castellaro pond. 

Events and parties

• Fair of Santa Margherita (February 23 of each year). 
• Village in bloom (last Sunday of April). Market exhibition of plants and flowers. 
• Feast of San Bartolomeo, to Monzambano (22-25 August). Patron saint's day with food stands. 
• Buskers Festival (The end of August). International exhibition of street artists. 
• Grape festival (mid September). Medieval historical reenactment. 
• Orange Flag Day (second Sunday of October). In collaboration with the Italian Touring Club. 

What to do

• 45.3869910.693691 ^{[link not working]}Monzambano Municipal Library, Via Umberto I, 56 - Monzambano, ☎ 39 0376 809322, @[email protected]. 

• 45.375310.63482 ASDT Pasino E. Guerra Castellaro, Via Moscatello, 131, @[email protected]. The team participates in the Serie A Men Tamburello Open. 

Shopping

In the numerous wineries in the area it is possible to buy the famous Tokai, Merlot and Chiaretto wines.

How to have fun

• 45.3736610.635841 Dorsè bar, Via Castello 26, ☎ 39 0376 88905. 

Where to eat

• 45.3724410.635161 Ancient Borgo, Via Castello 56, ☎ 39 0376 809573. 
• 45.3741110.636362 Trattoria Colomba, Via Castello 4, ☎ 39 0376 88977. 
• 45.373710.635923 Trattoria La Dispensa, Via Castello 21, ☎ 39 0376 88850. 
• 45.3749910.635214 Trattoria La Pesa, Via gen. Orlandi 2, ☎ 39 0376 88901, @[email protected]. 

Where stay

• 45.374310.63651 Corte Uccellanda Relais & Spa, Via castello 1, ☎ 39 0376 88763, fax: 39 0376 807330, @[email protected]. 
• 45.3736210.635382 B&B The 4 seasons, Via Lazzaretto 2, ☎ 39 0376 88775. 
• 45.3750110.639653 B&B At Sunset, Via Lazzaretto 2, ☎ 39 0376 88930. 

Safety

• Municipal Police, Piazza V. Emanuele, 15 - Monzambano, tel. 39 0376 800502
• First aid 39 0376 83293
• Emergency Medical Service 39 0376 83293
• Carabinieri 39 0376 800034
• Traffic police 39 0376 330611

How to keep in touch

Post office

• 45.3868710.693719 Post office, Via Umberto I, 54 - Monzambano, ☎ 39 0376 800047. 

Around

• Lake Garda - It is one of the great Lombard lakes; the eastern shore is Venetian, the tip to the north it is thirty. A destination for climatic tourism since the nineteenth century, every coastal town lives and develops with tourism. Main destinations are Sirmione, Desenzano del Garda, Salò, Riva del Garda, Garda, Peschiera del Garda.
• Sirmione - The Grottoes of Catullus - remains of an immense Roman villa in a panoramic position on the tip of its promontory -, the majestic and elegant Scaliger Castle which fortifies the town's marina and the thermal baths make it one of the most popular destinations around the lake.
• Peschiera del Garda - On the lower shore of the lake, where the Mincio is formed, its historic core is still surrounded by walls and four corner bastions; the Austrians made it one of the cornerstones of the so-called Quadrilateral with Mantua, Legnago is Verona. The portion of its territory that extends towards Sirmione it takes the name of Lugana, where the famous wine of the same name is produced.
• Mantua - Capital of the Gonzagas, it still exudes its subtle charm as a great city of art for which it appoints it a UNESCO World Heritage Site it was not so much a recognition as a necessary acknowledgment. Its ancient atmospheres are incomparable, the profiles of the palaces and domes that stand out in the Po Valley mist enveloped by the mirror of its lakes, its endless Gonzaga palace that incorporates numerous buildings in the city center.
• Solferino - The famous battle of the Risorgimento of 24 June 1859, which saw the Austrians defeated, handed down the name of the town to history, like the nearby center of Saint martin. The Risorgimento Museum recalls the epic of those years, together with the Ossuary which houses the bones of 7,000 fallen from that carnage. The town also preserves a fortress and a Gonzaga castle.
• San Martino della Battaglia - Contemporary to that of Solferino, the Risorgimento battle linked in the town's toponym saw the defeat of the Austrians during the second war of Independence. On the hill of the confrontation there is a commemorative tower; an ossuary holds thousands of remains of fallen soldiers from the opposing armies.
• Castiglione delle Stiviere - City of the Red Cross and of San Luigi Gonzaga, protagonist in the wars of the Risorgimento, it was a Gonzaga center; it retains a beautiful historic core that extends over the morainic hills south of Lake Garda. After the war it experienced a strong economic expansion that favored an important demographic growth, making it the reference center of theAlto Mantovano.
• Borghetto (Valeggio sul Mincio)
• Gardaland

Itineraries

• In the lands of the Gonzagas - An itinerary through the centers, large and small, which were the capitals of the Gonzaga cadet branches: principalities, marquisates, duchies which, within the Mantuan state structure, enjoyed real independence, often minted coins and held refined courts that rivaled that of Mantua, embellished their urban centers by equipping them with elegant architecture - churches, squares, palaces, walls, towers - and characteristic urban views such as the typical Gonzaga arcades.
• Morainic hills of Lake Garda - On the first corrugations of the Po plain that becomes a hill, where the great lake basin of the Lake Garda, the route touches towns and cities that were the domain of Gonzaga, Venice, Scaligero, and then became the scene of the bloody battles of the Risorgimento that were the prelude to the unification of Italy. To the tourist, historical and naturalistic importance the area combines an oenological interest as an area of ​​production of wines from the hills, tokai, merlot and claret.
• Places of the battle of Solferino and San Martino - The itinerary runs through the places where the historic one took place on 24 June 1859 battle of Solferino and San Martino.
• Via Carolingia - European itinerary that crosses the places traveled by the court of Charlemagne between the 8th and 9th centuries to travel from Aachen to Rome, where Pope Leo III crowned the Carolingian sovereign emperor of the Holy Roman Empire on Christmas night in the 19th century.
• Walled cities of Veneto. An itinerary to discover the strongholds and the history of Veneto.
• Towers and castles of the Alto Mantovano

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