Desenzano del Garda
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Desenzano del Garda is in Brescia province, by Lake Garda.
Understand
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phone: +39 0303748726address: Via Porto Vecchio 34
Get in
By train
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Stazione di Desenzano del Garda-Sirmione
address: Piazza Einaudi 10
By boat
Ferry pierDesenzano is one of the main ferry hubs on the lake. There are connections from there to many destinations at the shores of the lake.
Get around
By bus
The town centre is small enough to explore on foot. If your accommodation is out of the centre then take a local bus to get there.Urban busesThere are 3 local bus lines in the town plus in season there is yet another one which runs only on Sundays.
Trenino turisticoIn season a tourist "train" (a tractor with a trailer) meanders through the town.
See
Chiesa di Santa Maria MaddalenaA Baroque church with Last Supper fresco by Gian Battista Tiepolo.
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phone: +39 030 914 3547address: Via Crocefisso, 22Some modest remains of a Roman villa with mosaics, excavated in 1921.
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address: Via Fosse Castello
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Museo Archeologico "Giovanni Rambotti"
phone: +39 030 9144529address: Via Anelli 42It shows the many finds, which were found in the peat bog of Polada lying between Desenzano and Lonato and in the territory Lavagnone. It was a prehistoric lake-dwelling, which was located 5 kilometers from the center today. The museum shows among the many finds also a plow made โโof oak from the southern Alpine Bronze Age (about 2200 BC). -
Go next
- Sirmione โ to see the castle (Castello Scaligeri) and the ruins of the Roman villa (Grotte di Catullo).