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Encyclopedia > Gargnano
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Region: Lombardy
Province: Brescia
Location: 45.683/45°41' N lat.
10.6667/10°40' W long.
Area: 78 km2
Population: 3,016
Population density: 39/km2
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Elevation: m
Postal code: 25084
Area/distance code: 0365
Car designation: BS
ISTAT code: 017076
Fiscal code: D924
Name of habitants:
Website: www.gargnano.it

Gargnano is a town and comune in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy.


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Gargnano on the lake of Garda with Gardaweb the tourist portal of the lake of Garda (383 words)
Gargnano on the lake of Garda with Gardaweb the tourist portal of the lake of Garda
Little are the localities that, like Gargnano, long mail la bresciana Riviera on the spanda western of the Lago of Garda, have conserved until our days I' ancient aspect, impresso from the passed centuries, where the noisy modern life sernbra to essersi stopped in front of the doors of this center.
Risen probably already in age Roman, Gargnano had from the 1427 a period of closing when it was under the veneziana domination.
Gargnano, Curiosity, Lake Garda Booking Center (581 words)
Between 1943 and 1945, during the Italian Social Republic, Gargnano was the residence of Benito Mussolini.
When the road from Gargnano to Riva was inaugurated in 1931, it finally interrupted the isolation of that section of Lake Garda so impervious to be considered almost impenetrable.
Gabriele D'Annunzio was present and named the road "meander" in honor of its tortuous path that plunged into the heart of the mountain to emerge alongside the blue lake, subsequently penetrating the dark rock again to re-emerge into the light of day.
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