Torri del Benaco, Italy Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

To the south of Malcesine, TORRI DEL BENACO is the prettiest and least spoilt of the villages on this side of the lake. Its old centre consists simply of one long cobbled street, Corso Dante, crisscrossed with tunnelling alleyways and lined with mellow stone palazzi . At one end of the street is the castle , illuminated at night and with a long glasshouse – or lemonia – built along one side to protect the lemon trees inside during cold weather. Inside the castle there is a small anthropological museum (April, May & Oct daily 9.30am–12.30pm & 2.30–6pm; June–Sept daily … more »