Things to do in lake Garda; you could start visit Garda history places, castles, romanic churches and museums; this was a border area between north Europe and southern regions and between east and west, so here there are a lot of castles and fortress as Sirmione Castle, Malcesine castle and Peschiera fortres; here were fought the wars of independence with the birth of the Red Cross, see Castiglione Red Cross Museum, Tower of San Martino, ossuary of Solferino and Custoza; here we had some of the largest roman villas in north Italy (Desenzano, Sirmione and Toscolano) and many romanic churches; here the Magnifica Patria during the Venetian Republic and the Republic of Salò later, see Vittoriale and the new Musa museum.
To have fun on lake Garda you find many theme parks as Gardaland, Movieland, Caneva, Cavour and others where you can enjoy with roller coasters, slides, swimming pools, a jungle adventure, find yourself on the set of a Rambo movie or on a jeep during a safari among lions and giraffes.
If you love nature on lake Garda we have Morainic hills in the south, where to go cycling through vineyards, wheat and corn fields; mount Baldo in the east where to go on the top with the new cableway of Malcesine and enjoy wonderful views of the lake; forest and mountains with a wild nature and long winding roads through the mountains in the west with Valvestino area and Ledro Vally.
If you are looking for flavors of lake Garda you will find precious products of Italian cuisine such as zafferano di Pozzolengo, tartufo and porcini, lake fish trout, carpione, coregone, spiedo alla bresciana, trippa, tortellini di Valeggio, salame di Pozzolengo, baccalà and many others from the local cuisine with products of our land and lake; sure you have to try with our local wines, the most famous is Lugana wine but we have many others, on the west side from Valtenesi chiaretto, groppello, Garda classic red; on the east side bardolino wine and custoza or the Valpolicella area with amarone, recioto, ripasso.
Lake Garda was famous as climatic area in XIX-XX century, here we have famous thermal area in Sirmione with Fonte Boiola and Aquaria spa; Villa dei Cedri thermal baths in Colà di Lazise with a hot water lake in the middle of a large garden; thermal water swimming-pool at Aquardens in Pescantina.
