Location

Padenghe del Garda

Padenghe del Garda /

Padenghe del Garda is one of the municipalities of Valtenesi,

enjoys a mild climate and is known for its wine, the beaches, the castle and the green hills of the hinterland. Padenghe has ancient origins in the Roman period, and certainly this was municipality resting place of the patrician families here in the III and IV century built large villas and temples, was also a commercial port with Peschiera and Riva del Garda. To visit castello, the romanic chiesa di Sant’Emiliano, the parish church of Santa Margherita and the castle Drugolo, private property is then passed under the town of Lonato.

Padenghe castle

TERRITORY OF PADENGHE DEL GARDA

Province: Brescia
Hamlets:
Surrounding municipalities: Calvagese della Riviera, Desenzano del Garda, Lonato del Garda, Moniga del Garda, Soiano del Lago
Altitude: 127 m s.l.m. – Population: 4.213 – Inhabitants name: padenghini

Padenghe is nestled in the green hills of Valtenesi, its territory in part overlook the lake with beautiful beaches and its inland consists of hills where, thanks to its mild climate all year round, is the area of production of excellent wine as the Garda Classico DOC

HISTORY OF PADENGHE DEL GARDA

Padenghe was already inhabited in prehistoric times, but the first settlement began under the rule of the Romans. Around the church of San Cassiano began to extend the village that was later abandoned due to Hungarian raids which forced the population to take refuge in the hills, where he built the castle over the years became a Ghibelline fortress contention between Brescia and Verona. Contention that last long between Scala and Giovanni of Bohemia, son of Henry VII, who took turns in driving the castle until the second half of 1300, when Padenghe along with other towns of the lake asked for the autonomy. In 1509 the governor Leonino Bibbia ordered the destruction of the castle, which was not for the intervention of Cardinal D’Amboise. In Padenghewere illustrious names of history including Gianbattista Rodella and the Jesuit painter Giovanni Andrea Bertanza and always Padenghe Tito Speri volunteers captured the Austrian general Schonhals fleeing uprisings in Brescia.

TYPICAL LOCAL PRODUCTS OF PADENGHE DEL GARDA

Garda Classico wine, Olive oil extra virgin dop of Garda, lake fish of Garda lake