| Sirmione | ||
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| State | Italy | |
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| Region | Lombardy | |
| Territory | Lake Garda | |
| Altitude | 66 m a.s.l. | |
| Surface | 33.87 km² | |
| Inhabitants | 8 230 (2011) | |
| Name inhabitants | sirmionesi | |
| Prefix tel | 39 030 | |
| POSTAL CODE | 25019 | |
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Sirmione is a center on the Lake Garda.
To know
Geographical notes
Sirmione is located along the peninsula of the same name which extends into Lake Garda for about four kilometers and divides the southern lake shore into two parts. Part of the municipal territory extends east of the peninsula to include that of Punta Grò.
The hinterland extends towards the morainic hills that surround the southern part of the lake itself and includes a part of the Lugana production area.
The municipality borders to the southeast with Peschiera del Garda and southwest with Desenzano del Garda. The section on the lake is bordered to the east by Lazise is Castelnuovo del Garda and to the north with Padenghe sul Garda.
When to go
Sirmione can be used throughout the year. Summer records a notable tourist influx and out of season it is possible to calmly admire every characteristic corner. Up Sirmione weather you can have updated information on the weather.
How to orient yourself
Sirmione: full screen map.- For more information contact the office: 1 Tourist Information and Reception Company - I.A.T. Sirmione, Viale Marconi, 8, ☎ 39 030 3748721, 39 030 916114, fax: 39 030 916222, @[email protected].
- Visit itinerary.
How to get
Sirmione from above
By plane
- 2 Verona-Villafranca Airport (Valerio Catullo), Boxes of Sommacampagna (VR), ☎ 39 045 8095666, fax: 39 045 8619074.
- 3 Brescia-Montichiari Airport (Gabriele D'Annunzio), Via Aeroporto, 34, Montichiari (BS), ☎ 39 030 9656599, fax: 39 030 9656514. Charter only.
- 4 Bergamo-Orio al Serio Airport (the Caravaggio), Via Aeroporto 13, Orio al Serio, ☎ 39 035 326323. From this airport there are many low cost flights operated by the Irish airline Ryanair.
By car
- A4 motorway (Turin-Trieste). Sirmione toll booth.
 | ATTENTION: The medieval center of Sirmione is accessible by car only to residents and hotel guests with parking passes. |
- 5 Port of Sirmione, Piazza Carducci, ☎ 39 030 9149511, fax: 39 030 9149520, @[email protected].
Timetables. Connection with the main ports of Lake Garda.
On the train
- 6 Desenzano del Garda-Sirmione station (Desenzano station), Piazza Einaudi, Desenzano del Garda. Served by Frecciabianca for Milano Centrale, Torino Porta Susa, Trieste Centrale and Venezia Santa Lucia, by Frecciarossa for Brescia and Roma Termini and by regional for Milano Centrale and Verona Porta Nuova.
By bus
- Transport Brescia North and Brescia South, Via Cassala 3 / a - 25126 Brescia, ☎ 39 030 44061, fax: 39 030 3754505, @[email protected].
- Line LN026Brescia-Verona.
- Line LN008Carpenedolo-Sirmione.
- APAM, Via dei Toscani, 3 / c - 46100 Mantua, ☎ 39 0376 2301, fax: 39 0376 230330, @[email protected].
- Line 7BCastiglione delle Stiviere-Desenzano del Garda-Sirmione
How to get around
By taxi
- Sirmione taxi, ☎ 39 030 916082.
By car
Parking lots
- 7 Piazzale Monte Baldo parking, ☎ 39 030 916539.
Parking rates. Parking areas for campers
What see
1 Scaliger Castle, ☎ 39 030 916468. Built in the thirteenth by the Scaligeri, lords of Verona, it is the only access to the historic center of the city.
- 2 Grottoes of Catullus (The remains of the Roman villa are located at the end of the peninsula and can only be reached on foot, about 1 km. from the Scaligero castle), ☎ 39 030 916157.
- 3 [link not working]Church of San Pietro in Mavino (The church is visible from the outside only on three sides). The first documents that mention the church of S. Pietro in Mavino date back to the eighth century.
- 4 Church of Santa Maria della Neve. From the 15th century.
- 5 Terme di Sirmione, Piazza Virgilio, 1 - 25019 Sirmione (Brescia), ☎ 39 800 802125.
Events and parties
- Sirmione Award (Photo contest on the city).
What to do
Piazza Carducci
- Walks.
- Bicycle routes.
- Running.
- Beaches of Sirmione.
- Sports facilities.
- Veronissima, @[email protected]. Take a guided tour of Sirmione, with the Scaligero castle, the Grottoes of Catullus and all the other sites of interest.
Shopping
Weekly markets are held on Mondays in Colombare di Sirmione and on Fridays in Lugana.
How to have fun
Sirmione in the evening
Shows
- 1 Gardaland, Via Derna, 4 - Castelnuovo del Garda, ☎ 39 045 6449777, @[email protected]. Amusement park.
Where to eat
Average prices
- 1 Antica Contrada restaurant, Via Colombare 23, ☎ 39 030 9904369, fax: 39 030 9904369.
- 2 Al Cantuccio Restaurant, Via XXV aprile 71, ☎ 39 030 9904394.
- 3 Al Progresso Restaurant, Via V. Emanuele, 20, ☎ 39 030 916108.
- 4 [link not working]Il Cascinale Restaurant, Via Verona 44, ☎ 39 030 9196534, @[email protected].
Where stay
Moderate prices
- 1 Hotel Meublé Grifone, Via Gaetano Bocchio, 4 (In the historic center adjacent to the castle. Bus stop and port at 100 meters), ☎ 39 030 916014, 393661830914 (Whatsapp), fax: 39 030 9904734, @[email protected]. Family-run bed and breakfast hotel. Lake view rooms with bathroom, air conditioning, heating and free wifi. Breakfasts served in the garden on the lake.
High prices
- 2 Palace Hotel Villa Cortine, Viale C. Gennari, 2, ☎ 39 030 9905890, fax: 39 030 916390.
Safety
- Municipal Police Command, ☎ 39 030 9905772.
- Municipal Police Detachment, ☎ 39 030 916252.
- Carabinieri, ☎ 39 030 9906777.
- Police, ☎ 39 030 9141212.
- Civil protection, ☎ 39 800 610110. First aid.
- Emergency medical Service, ☎ 39 030 8377167, fax: 39 030 2059842.
- Summer medical guard, ☎ 39 030 9909171.
Harbor and castle
How to keep in touch
Post office
- 8 Italian post, Largo Faselo Bitinico 1, ☎ 39 030 9904398.
Keep informed
- Municipality of Sirmione, ☎ 39 030 9909100, fax: 39 030 9909101.
Around
- Alto Mantovano - Borderland of the Duchy of Mantua, which pursued the dream of obtaining an outlet on Lake Garda without ever realizing it, developed the courts of cadet branches of the Gonzaga family. Castel Goffredo, Castiglione delle Stiviere, Carpenedolo retain the urban layout and monuments of that era. The post-war period saw good employment development, with a consequent increase in well-being and population.
- Desenzano del Garda - The most populous city of the whole lake (Lombardy, Veneto and Trentino) has received a great boost from tourism, focusing above all on young people who find numerous pubs, discos and sports centers there. Its tourist port is well developed, receiving the embrace of the historic center strongly characterized by the imprint given to it by the long rule of the Republic of Venice.
- 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.
Itineraries
Morainic hills of Lake Garda
- Sirmione is part of the Road of Wines and Flavors of Garda, a route of food and wine tourism promotion, about 200 kilometers long and recognized by the Lombardy Region, which winds through the province of Brescia on a territory of 25 municipalities, including: Pozzolengo, Desenzano del Garda, Lonato del Garda, Padenghe sul Garda, Moniga del Garda, Soiano del Lago, Muscoline, Polpenazze del Garda, Manerba del Garda, Puegnago del Garda, Salò, Gardone Riviera, Toscolano Maderno, Limone sul Garda is Tremosine. The route is intertwined with another tourist itinerary in the area: Route of Mantuan Wines and Flavors.
- Romanesque churches of the Riviera del Garda - The itinerary goes to the discovery of the Romanesque parishes and churches Brescia.
- 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.
- Walled cities of Veneto. An itinerary to discover the strongholds and the history of Veneto.
