Torri del Benaco Castle

Torri del Benaco Castle

Adjacent to the marina near the banks of Lake Garda

Torri del Benaco Castle It would have been built in several times, starting from a guard tower (the west) that is thought of by the Romans around the I century. B.C. Subsequently, towards the tenth century, Berengario I, king of Lombardy, built in these areas various fortifications for the protection of the inhabitants who were subjected to the Hungarian invasions, including parts of the town walls. In 1383 Antonio della Scala restructured the castle, but later the Visconti and the Venetians brought it to ruin, so that in the 18th century, with the slaughter of a part of the wall of the wall, a citrus greenhouse was built in 1760. Only in the eighties, the castle was refurbished and the small museum now housed. The latter is divided into several rooms where prehistoric finds, fishing gear and sheepskin and ancient geographic maps are exhibited.