Gardone Riviera hosts the monumental residence known as the “Vittoriale degli Italiani”, where the “bourgeois poet Gabriele D’Annunzio” lived from 1921 until his death in 1938. Gardone was already inhabited during the age of the Roman empire and later by the Longobards who settled there, resulting in its name, which derives from the German “Warda”. This toponym was later changed into the name of Garda, thus giving the lake its modern name.
COMPARTE guides visitors through the openair spaces of the “Vittoriale degli Italiani” and another highlight, the André Heller Foundation botanical garden (15 000 square metres), with its exotic plants and flowery niches created by Arturo Hurska, the tsars’ doctor, in 1900.