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the sight of these thesecradled thesecradled thesecradled cradled within wlthm the Alps enclrclmg encircling enclrclmgfoothills encirclingfoothills encirclingfoothills foothills startles one lke 1 l ke some someparadox someparadox someparadox paradox of NatureShelter NatureShelter Nature NatureShelter Shelter andarmthti and \\armth-ti armth ti warmth-ti warmth \ warmth \ - - tl e a moun mountains mountains mountains tains screen the lake s unusually unusuallyhIgh unusuallyhigh unusuallyhigh hIgh temperature-explam temperature explam temperature-explain explain temperature - explain the theanomaly theanomaly theanomaly anomaly Once only t vo centur es esago esago esago ago has the lake of Garda been beenkno beenkno beenkno kno vn to freeze Divers descents descentsreveal descentsreveal descentsreveal reveal that its warmth Increases Increasesat increasesat increasesat at its lower depths Hot sprmgs springs sprmgsare springsare springsare are scattered through its area of of143 143 square m les and at S rm one oneyou oneyou oneyou you may enjoy a warm sulphur sulphurbath sulphurbath sulphurbath bath in m water p ped from one of ofthese ofthese ofthese these spr ngs the Boiola that bub bubbles bubbles hubbles bles up from the lakeAs lakeAs lake lakeAs As the little l1tt1e steamer steers eastward east eastward eastward ward from Desenzano you sight sighta a low pen nsula which stretches stretchesfar stretchesfar stretchestar far into mto the lake you set foot ashore ashoreand ashoreand ashoreand and find yourself in a tiny fish ng rig ngv rigv ngv v llage It has only a few cobbledstreets cobbledstreets cobbled , streets and a simple inn whose lakesk lakesk lake sk rtmg rting terraces are arbored byan by byan byan an overhanging overhangmg profus on of do fio 110 v vers vers vers ers ersCastle ersCastle Castle ot of SIrmIoneDommatmg SirmioneDominating Sirmione SirmioneDominating Dominating Dommatmg every approach and andwIth andwith andwith wIth its fort Bed fled bridge bestnd bestrId ng ngthe ngthe ngthe the lake s inlet tov toy ers era the castellated castel castella Castellated la lated ted specter of a Seal Scal ger strong stronghold stronghold stronghold hold Lake \ washed \ ashed on tv two . 0 sides sidesand sidesand sidesand and w th lake connect ng moats to tocomplete tocomplete tocomplete complete its isolation the castle of ofS ofS ofS S rm one is unforgettable in m its lone loneausterIty loneausterity loneausterity loneausterityFew austerIty austerItyFew Few visitors pass The netmak netmakers netmakers netmakers ers ply the r tasks along the sunny sunnybanks sunnybanks sunnybanks banks of the moathICh moat \ which \\hICh hICh \ has be become become become come the local fish ng fleet shaven shavenS s haven havenS S rmione rmlOne rmone ) s school ch Idren ldren 11ay l ( lay at atbowls atbowls atbowls bowls with the smallest s ze of the theSc"l theScal theSeal Sc"l Scl Scal " gers stone cannon balls baIls Theonce The Theonce Theonce once terr terrifying ymg Titan of feudahsm feudalism feudahsmhas feudalismhas feudalismhas has become as those prehIstorIc prehIstorIcmonsters prehistoricmonsters prehistoricmonsters monsters v . whose hose skeletons are b 0 o 0log olog olog log cal m lestones even as castles castlesare castlesare castlesare are milestones mllestones in m man s social evo evolutlon evolutton evolution evolutionFarther lutlon lutton lutlonrarther luttonr'arther Farther rarther r'arther ' up the lake s eastern easternshore easternshore easternshore shore is the ancient v llage Ilage ol of Gar Garda Garda Garda da Its age may be interred Inferred from froma a local legend which assures you youthat youthat youthat that the adjacent waters cover the theremams theremains theremains remams remains of a Roman c ty Indeed Indeedold Indeedold Indeedold old fishermen aver that you can canglImpse canglimpse canglimpse glImpse its submerged temples 1f if 1fyour ifyour ityour your eyes ght-or ght or ght - - or perhaps it is your yourimag yourimag yourimag imag na nat t on- on ons on - s sufficiently strong strongTbe strongThe strongThe Tbe The Story ot of Garda s 5 Tou Tower Tosser TowerOn TosserOn er erOn On a more substantial basis rests restsGarda restsGarda restsGarda Garda s lonely rock g rt donjortower donJon donJontower donjontower tower and its associated story It Itis Itis Iis is an episode of Tenth century centuryt t mes long before Convey the cap captlve captive caplive tlve tive ma den to my castle had be become become become come a mere 1 terary expression orNon orNon or orNon Non tl tI scordar di dl mel me ! was sung sungby sungby sungby by Verdi s tower tov.er tover . immured loverIt loverIt lover loverIt It seems that Adelaide daughter daughterof of the duke of Burgundy very prop properly properly properiy erly declined declmed to wed the son of Ber Berer Berer Berer er gar us pr nee nce nec of Ivrea who had hadprocured hadprocured hadprocured procured her husband s murder murderBerenganus murderBerengarius murderBerenganus Berenganus Berengarius therefore sequesteredthe sequestered the lady in Garda s lakes de toer to toerfrom \er er tier tierfrom \erfrom erfrom \ erfrom from wh ch she was freed by a afnar afriar afriar fnar friar who carried carned the news to Otto Ottothe Ottothe Ottothe the Great of German ; > ) Otto moved movedon movedon movedon on Bercngarius Berengarius defeated h m and and1 andI I 1 berated the lady Poetic Justice Justicewas justicewas justicewas was felicitously fulfilled ful lled when Ottoell Otto OttofcIl Ottofell fcIl fell ( in love with Adelaide and caused causedher causedher causedher her to be crowned with him h1m as Jomt joint Jomtsovere jointsovere jointsevere sovere gn of the Holy Roman rm Em : EmI 1 I re reStill Still farther up the lake ) ' you ou skirt skIrt- skIrted skirted - - ed the lovely Gardone Riviera wIth wIthItS withits withits ItS crowded bathing bathmg beaches and its itscurvmg itscurving itscurving curvmg curving promenades where v.here vhere . rows of ofb o oib f b g umbrellas shelter hoi hol day mak makers makers makcrs ers from the warm October sun sunThen sunThen Then the western shore shot up upInto upInto upInto Into flat fiat faced cl ffs-the ffs the fls-the fls ns - the back ground of t terraced rraced lemon groves- groves groveswh groves groveswh groveswh - wh Ie le from the opposite bank rIS rISmg rising nsing mg ing over a vast expanse of olIve olIvetrees oliv olivtrees olivetrees e trees jutted tutted a rocky headland headlan headlandwhose headlanwhose headlandwhose d whose profile culm culminated mated in m the lofty loftyoutlIne loft loftoutline loftyoutline y outlIne of Castle MalcesmeThe MalcesmeThe Malcesme MalcesmeThe The : , bcal cal gers herald c e a ladder laddermust laddermust laddermust must have resembled the modern moder moderne'Ctension moderextension modernextension n e'Ctension eCtension extension ' ladder of fire companies companiesto to have carried carned the Veronese des despots despots despots pots up Malcesme Malcesine s sheer shecr rock roc rocfrontage rockfrontage . frontage wh ch they captured and andcasteIlatcd an ancastellated andcastellated casteIlatcd castellated Indeed th seagle s eaglenest eagle s snest snest nest of a stronghold is eloquent oiho of ofho o oho ho v the Italian word rocca ( ( rock rockassumed ) ) assumed the secondary mean ng of ofcastle ocastle o ocastle < castle castleThe The Lake lias Has as Two SamtsFar SaintsFar Saints Samts SaintsFar Far belo v the castle s swallow swallowtaIled swallowtailed swallowtailed taIled battlements 1 es blue Garda GardaLess GardaLess GardaLess Less lovable than austere it 1t ismountain is 1S a amountam amountain mountam mountain crowned k ng among amonglakes amon amonlakes amonglakes g lakes with its fishing fishmg smacks gold golden golden golden en sails salls bejewehng beJewelIng beewehng ) its breast Look LookIng Looking Looking Ing inland across Makes Malces ne s roottops roof rooftops rooftops tops you glimpse ghmpse the tiny tmy townembankment town s sembankment aembankment embankment along which its wood woodcarrYIng woodcarrying woodcarrying carrYIng fleet ties upMalces upMalces up upMalces Malces ne has a feast day forpair for a apair apair pair of patron saints samts who preside presid presideover presidover presideover over the welfare of vessels on the thetreacherous th thtreacherous thetreacherous treacherous lake of GardaOn GardaOn Garda GardaOn On that day skirting sklrtmg the castlebase castle s sbase sbase base and issu ng on the little quay quaymoves quaymoves quaymoves moves a procession of priests pnests fish fishermen fishermen fishermen ermen sailors sallors with their wives and andchIldren an anchildren ancchildren d chIldren Bearing Bearmg church banners banner bannersand bannerand bannersand s and hghted lIghted candles they pass un under under under der the anchored smacks bow bowSPrIts bo bosprits bowsprits w SPrIts And then there appears the thefestal th thfestal thtfestal festal emblem Itself-a Itself a itself - a standard standar standardbearmg standarbearing standardbearing d bearmg bearing a mm ature fish boat boatflanked boatflanked boatflanked flanked by the patron saints samts effigiesNow effigies effigiesNow Now "ow ow " Christ Chnst an saint samt has blessedpagan blessed blesse blessedpagan blessepagan d pagan mermaid and trident tndent beanng beanngNeptune bearin bearinNeptune bearingNeptune g Neptune AllIs All is v . well eIl as the pageant pageantwmds pagean pageanwinds pageaniwinds t wmds winds churchward once more And Ant Andas Antas Andas d as dusk falls the surroundmg surroundmgmountam surroundingmountain surroundin surroundinmountain g mountam mountain sides glow forth intofairyland into mto a afaIryland afairyland faIryland of little lights hghts It is thelake the thelake th thlake e lake of Garda s lantern feast m in hon honor honor honor or of this blessing blessmg of the bowsprItsOne bowspritsOne bowsprits bowspritsOne One wonders if 1f th s same pair of ofsa o osa olsa 1 sa nts pres ded over the safety of ofthe o othe olthe f the Venetian fleet vhen when " , > hen it rested restedhigh reste restehigh restedhigh d high among the lake of Garda s sur surround su suround surround r round ng mountain mountam peaks in 1438 1438TI 143 143T1 1438Tl g TI T1 e a spectacle of galleys Issumg Issumgover issuin issuinover issuingover g over the Alpine Alpme tooth footh Us Ils was beheld behel beheldby beheldby I Iby by the d scomflted scomfited lake fleet of the theViscontIs th thViscontis theViscontis e ViscontIs Those Milanese despots despotsbemg despotsbeing despotsbeing bemg being then thcn at war with Venice Vemce had hadseIzed hadseized ha haseized d seIzed the commanding commandmg pos t tons ons orthe on o othe n . the lake of GardaFleet GardaFleet Garda GardaFleet Fleet Carried Carned Over IIIountamsThen MountainsThen Mountains IIIountams MountainsThen . Then one day there appeared be before betore fore the d stracted straeted Venet an senatesimple senate a aI asImple asimple I sImple Greek sa lor for \ JSiccolo X\iccolo X iccolo Piccolo Sor Sorbolo So Sobolo Sorbolo r bolo w th a plan for transportingwar transportmg transportin transportmgwar transportinwar g war galleys from the AdIe Adibe Adi ! , e across acrossthe acros acrosthe acrossthe s the Alp ne pas passes es and do vn vet to the thelake th thlake thelake e lake of Garda In tead of mcar mcarcerat inca incacerat incarcerat r cerat ng him as a madman the thedesperate th thdesperate thedesperate e desperate senators acquiesced By Byul11 B Bjiutil : ul11 util zing 2000 2 000 oxen and a hostlaborers host of oflaborers ollaborers f laborers a unit umt of the Venet an anfleet a afleet arfleet n fleet v as actually hoisted up across acros across15 s 15 miles mlles of Alpine Alpme wilderness wildernes wildernessthrough wildernesthrough wildernessthrough s through a pass almost 1 000 feet feeth fee feeh feelh t h gh betveen bet veen Mon and Torbole Torbol TorboleThe TorbolThe TorboleThe e The galleys were then lo 10 to vered by bycapstans b bCapstans bscapstans y capstans into mto Torbole s little httle barbor barborThis har has harbor hasbor bor borThis This amazing feat had been per pe r formed performed peformed without mishap in fifteen fifteendays fiftee fifteedays flfteerdays 11 days A grateful Venice Vemce voted votedMesser vote voteMesser votedMesser d Messer Niccolo Nlccolo an annual pension of 02 ol500 500 ducats for his faithful service services servicesm servicein s ; in m conduct ng galleys across the themoun th thmountains themountains e moun mountains tams to such glory of our oursta ou oustate ouistate ouistateEver r sta state te stateEver teEver Ever since smce Machiavelli Machlavelll wrote wrotetreatises wrot wrottreatises wrotetreatises e treatises on fortification the ItalIans Italian ItalIanshave Italianhave Italianshave s have been bold engineers engmeers Any Al Alled A Alied Allied 1 led lied ! correspondent admitted to thStelvio the theStelvlo tb tbStelvio e ( Stelvlo Stelvio Pass Lake of Garda sector sectorthree sectorthree sectorthree three months alter after Italy s entrance entranc entranceInto entrancinto entranceinto e Into the World war witnessedthat witnessed at atthat althat that l lake ke s northern formerly Aus Austrian Austrian Austrian trian end eng neermg neering feats eel ecl ps p s ing psing ping bcl bel et ef of efFrom ofFrom etFrom From lake s de to mountain mountam peak peakall pea peaall peakall k all was one vast military m1lItary tortificat fortlflcat fortlflca fortific fortifict a t on reminding remmdmg you of some lacus lacustrine lac lactrine lacustrine us trine Gibraltar Ramificat Ramlficat |