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Isola del Garda
Three-Church-tour at Salò
Drei-Kirchen-Rundgang bei Salò
Lake Garda has a lot to offer in cultural terms. Near Salò in south Lake Garda, you can combine visits to various places of pilgrimage on a wonderful hike while enjoying the beautiful surroundings.
The three-church tour runs over a nine-kilometre contemplative hiking trail. It leads through the typical landscape of southern Lake Garda to the three churches of pilgrimage of Sanctuary Madonna del Rio, Santuario della Madonna di Buon Consiglio and Santuario San Bartolomeo.
The hike starts just before the town of Renzano. Here, you can park the car and reach your first destination: the village of Renzano. In the village of Renzano, path number 16 begins, which leads to the first place of pilgrimage Madonna del Rio. The wild, yellow-painted church dates from the 18th century. At that time, the Virgin Mary appeared in a nearby grotto and left her footprints in white stone. These impressions are still testimony to the miraculous event. To the left of the church, a forest path takes you to a lovely waterfall.
The second stage leads through the woods, past the villages of Milordino and Milord, to Bagnolo with the picturesque, cypress-surrounded Sanctuary of the Madonna di Buon Consiglio at 516 metres.
You reach the third and last destination via path 17b. First, it goes to the Passo della Stacca at 458 metres. Then you follow the number 17 towards Bassa Via del Garda to Gardesina and the stone Santuario San Bartolomeo at 480 metres.
Just below the church, path number 17 leads through olive groves to the Gardesana Occidentale, where it goes back to the starting point. Overall, this, not to be underestimated, circular walk with reflection factor, can be hiked in 4.5 hours.
(garda-see.com)
Isola del Garda, Isola di Garda, or Isola Borghese is the biggest island on Lake Garda. It is part of the comune of San Felice del Benaco, in the Province of Brescia, Lombardy, Italy. The island has a long and varied history, having been used as a Roman burial ground, pirate lair, a site for a Franciscan monastery, border fortification and as a residential villa. The island has been visited by numerous famous people over the centuries, reportedly including Francis of Assisi, Anthony of Padua and Dante Alighieri. Today, it is covered by a park and is dominated by the Venetian neo-Gothic Villa Borghese Cavazza. Although privately owned by the Cavazza family, Isola del Garda has been open to visitors since 2002.
Geography
Isola del Garda is located in the southwest of Lake Garda, just south of the Gulf of Salò, close to the town of San Felice del Benaco, in Brescia province. It is separated from Capo San Fermo by only about 220 meters of open water. It is by far the largest island on the lake. The island (or actually islands, since Isola del Garda includes some small outcroppings of rock and most of the park is divided from the house by a narrow channel) was initially just rocks jutting out from the lake. All the soil for the gardens was brought in over time by the inhabitants. The island is around 1.1 km (0.7 mi) long, but only around 70 metres (230 feet) wide at the widest point. It is now mostly covered by a park and formal gardens with a large variety of plants.
History
The island has been known in turn as Insula Cranie ("Isle of Skulls"), Isola dei Frati ("Isle of Monks"), Isola Scotti, Isola Lechi, Isola de Ferrari and Isola Borghese. It has likely been inhabited since the Roman period. 130 Gallo-Roman tombstones found on the island indicate that it was at least used as a burial area at the time. Remains of votive temples have also been discovered. Reportedly, after having been abandoned during the period of decline of the Roman Empire, the island served for a long time as a hideout for pirates who preyed on the shipping on Lake Garda.
The island is first mentioned in written documents in a decree by Duke Carloman of Bavaria, dated 879, which granted the island to the monks of Zeno of Verona. Apparently, they did not hold on to the property because in 1180 it was mentioned again when Emperor Frederick I granted it as a fief to one Biemino of Manerba. Around 1220, Francis of Assisi travelled through northern Italy. Although it is not certain whether he actually visited the island, the Franciscans did establish a simple hermitage among the caves and rocks of the island at that time, after it was bestowed on them by Biemino. In 1224, the Bishop of Trent visited the hermitage and three years later so did reportedly Anthony of Padua in 1227. According to local legend, in 1304, Dante Alighieri came to the island and later referred to it in his Divine Comedy as:
Loco è nel mezzo là dove 'l trentino
pastore e quel di Brescia e 'l veronese
segnar poria, s'e' fesse quel cammino
(Inferno, Canto XX)
In 1422, Bernardino of Siena was on the island for the first of several visits and in that period a Franciscan convent was constructed.[4] It was rebuilt and expanded in 1438, the added church was named Santa Maria dello Scoglio. In 1470, Father Francesco Licheto (1450–1520), a member of the noble Lechi family from Brescia, founded a school of theology and philosophy on the island. In 1517, a religious commentary he wrote was printed for him by Paganino Paganini on the island, and became the first printed book to be published in the whole region around Lake Garda. Giano Fregoso, Doge of Genua, and his son Alessandro used the island as a retreat. However, after Licheto's death the religious community there went into decline. From 1685 to 1697 it was a convent for novices.
In 1795, the government of the Republic of Venice decided to suppress the monastery. Its last head, Bonaventura di Casalloro, was forced to close the monastery and leave the island with the remaining monks. The property was then requisitioned by a decree of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1798, after the establishment of the Cisalpine Republic. Its government sold the island to private owners in 1800. After passing through several hands, it was bought in 1817 by Count Luigi Lechi from Brescia. He ordered major construction and renovation works and the monastery was turned into a villa. Lechi was also a poet and among his guests were composers Gioachino Rossini and Gaetano Donizetti, the writers Ippolito Pindemonte and Cesare Arici as well as painter Luigi Basiletti and architect Rodolfo Vantini. The latter designed the island's small port with its tower. Lechi's lover, the singer Adelaide Malanotte, was also a regular guest. In 1837, Luigi Lechi passed the property on to his brother Teodoro (1778–1866), a former general in the Napoleonic army, who – among other changes – added the terraces at the front of the villa.
In 1860, the island was expropriated by the newly unified Italian state and turned into a border fortification against the Austrians, who at the time still held the region of Venetia including the eastern shore of Lake Garda. Although some construction work was done, the idea to turn the island into a fortress was abandoned after the Austrians ceded most of their holdings in northern Italy to the Kingdom of Italy after the Third Italian War of Independence in 1866. After that, only the northern end of Lake Garda around Riva del Garda remained Austrian. In 1870, the island was sold at auction and purchased by Baron Scotti. He in turn sold it to Duke Gaetano de Ferrari (1818–1893) from Genoa. De Ferrari and his wife, the Russian aristocrat Maria Sergeyevna Annenkova (1837–1924), moved to the island.
Between 1880 and 1900 they had the park constructed, built containment walls to keep out the water and imported fertile earth and exotic plants. Whilst the park was designed from the beginning as an English landscape garden, the area in front of the house was laid out as a more formal Italian garden. In 1893, the Duke died, but the couple had previously decided to build a new villa on the site of the old Lechi villa. This Venetian neo-Gothic palace was constructed in 1890 to 1903, based on a design of architect Luigi Rovelli.
After the Duchess died, her daughter Anna Maria (1874–1924), wife of Prince Scipione Borghese from Rome, inherited the island but she survived her mother by only a few months. In 1927, the prince died, leaving the island to his daughter, Princess Livia Borghese (1901–1969), who was married to Count Alessandro Cavazza from Bologna (1895–1969). Their youngest son, Count Camillo Cavazza dei Conti Cavazza married Lady Charlotte Sarah Alexandra Chetwynd-Talbot (born 1938), the eldest daughter of the Earl of Shrewsbury in 1965. They had seven children before Camillo Cavazza died in 1981.
Today
Today the island is owned by Lady Charlotte Cavazza. She lives on the island with her family (her seven children – four brothers and three sisters – and their families). The family also owns properties on the nearby peninsula where they run businesses that include boat rental, olive growing,[ a camping site, an agriturismo[ and a riding school.
Since 2002 the island has been open to visitors on guided tours. It can also be rented for special events.
(Wikpedia)
Der Gardasee hat in kultureller Hinsicht vieles zu bieten. Am südlichen Gardasee bei Salò können Sie die Besichtigung verschiedener Wallfahrtsorte bei einer herrlichen Wanderung kombinieren und gleichzeitig die wunderschöne Gegend genießen.
Der Drei-Kirchen-Rundgang in Salò verläuft über einen neun Kilometer langen beschaulichen Wanderweg. Dieser führt durch die typische Landschaft am südlichen Gardasee zu den drei Wallfahrtskirchen Santuario Madonna del Rio, Santuario della Madonna di Buon Consiglio und Santuario San Bartolomeo.
Die Wanderung beginnt kurz vor dem Ort Renzano. Hier kann das Auto geparkt und gleich das erste Ziel angesteuert werden: das Dorf Renzano. Dort beginnt der Weg Nr. 16, der bis zum ersten Wallfahrtsort Madonna del Rio führt. Die wild umwachsene, gelb getünchte Kirche stammt aus dem 18. Jahrhundert. Damals soll in einer nahegelegenen Grotte die Gottesmutter Maria erschienen sein und ihre Fußabdrücke in weißem Stein hinterlassen haben. Diese Abdrücke sollen noch heute Zeugnis über das wundersame Ereignis ablegen. Links von der Kirche bringt ein Waldweg zum Wasserfall des Ortes.
Die zweite Etappe führt durch den Wald, vorbei an den Ortschaften Milordino und Milord, nach Bagnolo mit dem malerischen, von Zypressen umgebenen Santuario della Madonna di Buon Consiglio auf 516 Metern.
Das dritte und letzte Ziel kann über den Weg 17b erreicht werden. Zunächst geht es zum Passo della Stacca auf 458 Metern. Danach geht es der Nr. 17 folgend weiter Richtung Bassa Via del Garda bis nach Gardesina und dem steinernen Santuario San Bartolomeo auf 480 Metern.
Direkt unter der Kirche führt der Weg Nr. 17 durch Olivenhaine bis auf die Gardesana Occidentale von der es wieder zurück zum Ausgangspunkt geht. Insgesamt kann diese, nicht zu unterschätzende, Rundwanderung mit Besinnungsfaktor in 4,5 Stunden erwandert werden.
(garda-see.com)
Die Isola del Garda (deutsch Gardainsel) oder Isola di Garda ist die größte Insel im Gardasee.
Geographie
Die Insel liegt wenige hundert Meter vor dem Cap San Fermo, das den Golf von San Felice del Benaco abschließt, zwischen Salò und San Felice del Benaco.
Sie erreicht eine Höhe von 88 Metern. Das sind 23 Meter über dem Seespiegel. Nach der Volkszählung von 2001 hatte die Insel 10 Einwohner.
Geschichte
Für die Römer war die Insel ein locus deliciarum (lat. Ort der Vergnügungen), mit Landhäusern und Tempeln, wie man aus Inschriften und Resten ersehen kann.
Im 8. Jahrhundert war sie im Besitz der Grafschaft von Garda, woher sie ihren Namen hat. 879 kam sie mit Carlomanno an das Kloster San Zenon von Verona. Franz von Assisi erwarb einen Teil der Insel und gründete 1221 eine Einsiedelei. Die Insel wurde nun „Insel der Mönche“ genannt. Diese Mönche brachten einige Pflanzenkulturen an den See, unter anderem die Zitronen.
1442 weilte hier Bernhardin von Siena, der die Einsiedelei in ein Kloster umwandelte. Durch Francesco Lechi, Licheto genannt, wurde das Kloster im 16. Jahrhundert als Studienzentrum für theologische Studien bekannt. 1798 wurde das Kloster aufgehoben und 1817 vom patriotischen Grafen Luigi Lechi in eine Villa umgebaut. 1860 kam die Insel an die italienische Regierung, die sie wiederum an den Baron Scotti verkaufte. Nach diversen Besitzerwechseln kam sie schließlich an das Haus Borghese. Prinz Scipio baute die frühere Villa in einen Palast im venezianischen Stil um (1894–1901), den man heute noch erkennen kann. Architekt war Luigi Rovelli.
Heute ist die Insel im Besitz der Familie der Grafen Cavazza, die dort auch ihren Wohnsitz hat. Von April bis Oktober werden auf der Insel Führungen, auch in Verbindung mit Konzerten, veranstaltet.
(Wikipedia)