Castellaro pond is located in Lombardy.
To know
The morainic lake, with its characteristic heart shape, is located within the Nature reserve Moraine complex of Castellaro Lagusello, to Castellaro Lagusello, in province of Mantua. It is a destination for lovers who choose the location for a romantic getaway.
Territories and tourist destinations
Urban centers
Other destinations
How to get
By plane
- Verona-Villafranca Catullo Airport (20 km away)
- Bergamo Orio al Serio Airport (90 km away)
- Bologna airport (130 km)
By car
- A22 Brennero motorway: exit Mantua north, 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 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;
- A4 Serenissima motorway: exit a Sirmione, continue for Pozzolengo, take the SP 18, SP 74 and follow the signs for Monzambano.
On the train
- 1 Peschiera del Garda railway station, Viale Station. On the Milan-Venice line.
- 2 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.
How to get around
Rest areas
- 3 Rest area, near piazza Gen. Orlandi.
- General Orlandi Square
- Via Castello
- Via Lazzaretto
Parking areas for campers
Nearest equipped area:
- 4 [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
- 1 Nature reserve Moraine complex of Castellaro Lagusello.
- 2 Fondo Tacoli pile dwelling site.
- 3 Castellaro Lagusello Castle.
- 4 Villa Arrighi, ☎ 39 0376 88979, @[email protected]. From the 17th century.
What to do
Shopping
Where to eat
See exercises by Castellaro Lagusello.
Where stay
See exercises by Castellaro Lagusello.
Safety
How to keep in touch
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.
- Mantua - Capital of the Gonzagas, it still exudes its subtle charm of a great city of art for which it appoints it a UNESCO World Heritage Site it was not so much an acknowledgment 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.
- Gardaland - Famous playground in Ronchi in the municipality of Castelnuovo del Garda, in the province of Verona.
Itineraries
- 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.