Lake Garda - The old town of Limone sul Garda by Thomas Bugdoll

*** Attention: Real photography – no AI! *** At the foot of a steep mountainside, the charming village of Limone sul Garda is built in terraces overlooking the lake. The houses cling to the rocks, stacked one on top of the other, and the winding alleys of the picturesque old town are decorated with flowers.

Above it are endless olive groves and rustic lemon gardens. However, the name of the village, which has a population of 1,000, originally had nothing to do with these. Limone comes from the Latin word "limes" – meaning border – because this was long the border between Austria and Italy. Nevertheless, Limone has made the lemon its symbol. Lake Garda, one of the northern Italian lakes, is the largest lake in Italy, named after the municipality of Garda on its eastern shore. The northern shore of the lake is surrounded by the two-thousand-metre peaks of the Garda mountains, such as Monte Baldo, while the southern shore lies in the northern Italian lowlands. Lake Garda stretches across the three Italian provinces of Trento (in the north), Verona (in the east) and Brescia (in the west). These provinces belong to the regions of Trentino-South Tyrol, Veneto and Lombardy, which share Lake Garda. I hope you enjoy looking at the picture!