Demonym(s) Arilicensi Local time Monday 10:20 PM | Elevation 68 m (223 ft) | |
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Frazioni Peschiera, San Benedetto di Lugana, Broglie Weather 10°C, Wind NW at 5 km/h, 61% Humidity Points of interest Palazzina Storica, Zenato Azienda Vitivinicol, Gardaturist SPA, Fortifications, Museo della pesca | ||
Peschiera del garda tourist attraction 2015 hd
Peschiera del Garda [peˈskjeːra dɛl ˈɡarda] (Venetian: Pischera; Latin: Ardelica, Arilica) is a town and comune in the province of Verona, in Veneto, Italy. When Lombardy-Venetia was under Austrian rule, Peschiera was the northwest anchor of the four fortified towns constituting the Quadrilatero. The fortress is on an island in the river Mincio at its outlet from Lake Garda.
Contents
- Peschiera del garda tourist attraction 2015 hd
- Map of 37019 Peschiera del Garda Province of Verona Italy
- Peschiera del garda verona
- History
- Main sights
- Bounding communes
- Transport
- Twin cities
- World heritage site
- References
Map of 37019 Peschiera del Garda, Province of Verona, Italy
Peschiera del garda verona
History
Roman Ardelica was a town of Gallia Transpadana that occupied the site of the modern Peschiera del Garda, at the southeast angle of the Lacus Benacus (Lago di Garda), just where the Mincius (modern Mincio) issued from the lake. The name is found under the corrupted form Ariolica in the Tabula Peutingeriana, which correctly places it between Brixia and Verona; the true form is preserved by inscriptions, of which one says that it was a trading place, with a corporation of ship-owners, collegium naviculariorum Ardelicensium. (Orell. Inscr. 4108.) The town is mentioned as Arilica in Pliny the Elder's Naturalis Historia.
The fortress at Peschiera played a prominent part in most military campaigns conducted in northern Italy after 1400, especially during the Italian campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. At the Battle of Peschiera fought on 6 August 1796, the day after the major French victory at the Battle of Castiglione, a French force commanded by general Masséna drives out the Austrians. After the Siege of Peschiera, during the First Italian War of Independence, it was taken by the Piedmontese from the Austrians, following a gallant defence by general Rath lasting six weeks, on 30 May, 1848.
Peschiera del Garda was also known for its military jail, which closed in 2002.
The comune is part of the Associazione Città del vino ("Association of Wine Cities").
In winter, the nearby Laghetto del Frassino is the most important habitat for tufted ducks in Italy (Morbioli & Sighele 2006).
Main sights
Bounding communes
Transport
Peschiera del Garda railway station, opened in 1854, forms part of the Milan–Venice railway.
Twin cities
World heritage site
It is home to one or more prehistoric pile-dwelling (or stilt house) settlements that are part of the Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps UNESCO World Heritage Site.