Gargnano

Gargnano
Country	Italy
region	Lombardy
province	Brescia  (BS)
Coordinates	45 ° 41 ′  N , 10 ° 40 ′  E Coordinates: 45 ° 41 ′ 0 ″  N , 10 ° 40 ′ 0 ″  E
height	98  m slm
surface	78 km²
Residents	2,826 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	36 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	25084
prefix	0365
ISTAT number	017076
Website	Gargnano

Gargnano is a municipality ( comune ) with 2826 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019), which is located on the west bank of Lake Garda .

Location and dates

It is located in the Lombardy region in the province of Brescia and consists of 13 districts, three of which (Bogliaco, Gargnano and Villa ) are on Lake Garda, the rest are inland between Lake Garda and Lake Valvestino . The neighboring municipalities are Brenzone sul Garda ( VR ), Capovalle , Tignale , Torri del Benaco (VR), Toscolano-Maderno , Valvestino and Vobarno .

The climate is always mild, almost Mediterranean, as this part of the west coast (the Riviera Bresciana) is protected by the mountains.

history

Gargnano was mentioned as early as 973. In the middle of the 13th century a monastery was founded by the Franciscans . In 1285 they built the church dedicated to St. Francis.

From 1921 to 1933 Gargnano was the terminus of the Brescia – Salò – Gargnano tram route .

Tram in Gargnano

Administrative division

In addition to Gargnano, the municipality also includes the following 12 fractions : Villa, Bogliaco, Villavetro, Fornico, Zuino, Muslone, Musaga, Sasso, Navazzo, Liano, Formaga and Costa.

Attractions

The cloister of San Francesco

San Francesco Church

From 1289 , Francis of Assisi had a church and a monastery built here. Only one outside of the church remains in a modified form. The cloister with its variously decorated columns is worth seeing .

The interior of the church was rebuilt several times in the 17th and 18th centuries.

San Martino Church

This church stands on the remains of an older church. Only the bell tower, a renaissance-like construction, remained of the original structure. The first draft of the parish church is said to have been made by a Trentino architect. The completion of the building was entrusted to the Brescian architect Vantini in 1837 . Inside there are pictures by Giovanni Andrea Bertanza and GB Cesari and a virgin Moretto on the main altar.

Villa Feltrinelli

Villa Feltrinelli

The villa, which formerly belonged to the family of the paper manufacturer Feltrinelli and where Benito Mussolini lived during the fascist republic of Salò from 1943 to 1945 , is now the Grand Hotel a Villa Feltrinelli . The American hotelier and millionaire Robert H. Burns bought the villa in 1997, invested around 30 million euros and saved it from deterioration. 80 employees take care of a maximum of 40 guests in the luxury hotel.

Villa Bettoni

The Palazzo Bettoni in the Bogliaco fraction, which still belongs to the counts of the same name and was built by the architect A. Cristofori, is located directly on the lake and has a very beautiful Italian garden, which was designed by Amerigo Pianelli, on the land side, but through the through road Gardesana Occidentale is separated from the Palazzo.

Events

Every year at the beginning of September, the Centomiglia (a hundred-mile regatta) starts from Bogliaco with sailing boats across Lake Garda.

Web links

Commons : Gargnano  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Information on Gargnano
• Gargnano history, activities, arrival

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
2. ↑ Municipal statute in Italian (PDF; 84 kB), accessed on February 23, 2018.
3. ↑ taz, 25./26. August 2018, p. 36.