The Best of Sirmione Private Walking Tour

The people of Sirmione love to stroll along Largo Goethe. Before continuing with the tour, stop on this street and try the Chiosco dei limoni di Baccolo Nicola, undoubtedly Sirmione's most well-known refreshment.

Anne of the Rock under the name Santa Maria del Ponte. The construction of the cross vault in the 15th century was followed by the addition of votive frescoes and a barrel vault in the 17th. The Scaligero family crest is carved onto the stone Madonna and Child inside.

The Scaligero Castle is a stronghold that dates back to the time of the Scaliger family and serves as a gateway to the ancient district of Sirmione, which is located on Lake Garda. It is one of the castles in Italy that has been preserved the best.

The interior features a single nave, with the hall ending in a two-step elevated presbytery with an umbrella vault that is introduced by a pointed triumphal arc and completed by a polygonal apse.

enowned for its thermal pools, saunas, and steam baths.

nt trees of via Catullo in the center of the Sirmione peninsula. For many years, it served as the vacation home of Veronese industrialist Giovan Battista Meneghini and his famous opera singer wife, Maria Callas.

ds and was constructed in the eighth century A.D., is the oldest church in Sirmione. In the year 1070, the Romanesque bell tower underwent renovations, and in the year 1320, when the church was being rebuilt, the first frescoes were painted, which can still be viewed today.

The northernmost tip of the Sirmione peninsula on the southern coast of Lake Garda is home to the ruins of a Roman villa known as the Grottoes of Catullus, which were constructed between the end of the 1st century BC and the beginning of the 1st century AD.