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Gardone Riviera

The Vittoriale degli Italiani makes of Gardone Riviera one of the capitals of culture on Lake Garda: this villa-museum – possibly the most eccentric in the whole Italian peninsula – is visited every year by thousands of enthusiasts from all around the world. Conceived and commissioned by the great poet Gabriele D’Annunzio, the Vittoriale is an authentic jewel of architecture and interior design; so much, as a matter of fact, that nearly all the tourists on Garda come here and visit it – not only those staying in Gardone or at the Grand Hotel. It is, however, within walking distance.

Many other peculiarities make Gardone unique, such as the André Heller Botanic Garden, the Museo del Divino Infante (“Divine Infant Museum”), the San Marco Tower and St Nicholas’ Church.

Hruska Botanical Garden

The botanical garden is a collection of over 2,000 plants from all continents and all climate zones. It stands on a land of 10,000 sqm. on the slopes of Mount Lavino. The famous doctor and naturalist Arthur Hruska developed this paradise between 1910 and 1971 with artificial streams and lakes covered with lilies and full of fish, all set in a landscape of the Dolomites recreated in miniature. In 1988, the multimedia artist André Heller bought this land with the adjoining villa.

Now, in the park, you can find works of contemporary sculpture by artists like Keith Haring, Roy Lichtenstein and Mimmo Paladino.

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San Marco tower

Opened 19th November 2005, a Museum created by Mrs Hiky Mayr. She is a cultured collector of German origin, who devoted more than thirty years of her life to the research, collection and restoration of the sculptures depicting the Bambino Gesù.

The collection has more than two hundred and fifty sculptures from over four centuries and it documents through the artefacts on display, the techniques, the uses and the iconography related to the theme of the sculpture having "Gesù Bambino" per object and in some cases also "Maria Bambina". The location is just five hundred meters from the Grand Hotel Gardone.

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Museo del Divino Infante

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S. Nicolò Church

Built on the site of an existing building from 1391, the church is the work of Mr Paul Soratini, from Lonato. It was completed in 1740, it has two paintings (Pietà and Pentecoste) by Zenon Veronese (1484-1553), a painting by Palma the Younger (1570-1596) with the Madonna, Gesù, S. Michele, S. Nicolò and S. Antonio Abbot, a painting by Andrea Celesti (1637-1712) with S. Nicolò, S. Antonio Abbot and SS. Faustino and Giovita, frescoes by Francesco Monti (1683-1768) including "the Assumption of Mary" (1750 ca), the fourteen paintings of the Via Crucis by Augustus Lozza.

The image of "The Madonna of Fraole" (the first altar on the left) is an object of particular devotion and in her honor we celebrate a great festival with a procession at the beginning of October.The apse facing the lake, is surrounded by a balcony that gives a large tour d'horizon on the lake from Punta San Vigilio, Peschiera, Sirmione, la the Fortress of Manerba and the Isle of Garda.

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