Garda is an Italian town of 4,064 inhabitants in the province of Verona in Veneto. Garda is just 32 km from Verona. Compared to the state capital is located northwest. It is on the Veronese coast of Lake Garda, anciently known as Benacus or Benaco. The village lies at the center of the gulf, which partly extends to form a small peninsula, which includes Punta San Vigilio and Mermaid Bay. It is bordered on the south by Bardolino, on the north by Torri del Benaco, on the east by Costermano, while in the west it borders with Lombardy (province of Brescia), in the towns of San Felice del Benaco and Manerba del Garda. Garda is easily accessible along the A22 motorway, exit at Affi-Lago di Garda, or along the SR 249 Eastern Gardesana, in the direction of Riva del Garda. The name Garda is the evolution of voice Lombard warda, or guard, high place suitable for observation or military fort barrier, an obvious allusion to the fortress erected at the same time to the first barbaric invasions on the Rocca di Garda, the hill overlooking the village where there was the presence of a castle and a church dedicated to San Colombano, the area was part of the courtyard of the Monastery of San Colombano Priory of Bardolino employee from the Abbey of San Colombano of Bobbio (PC). Garda is full of villas and nature trails. The town is dominated by the Rocca, since the time of the Lombards. The parish church of Garda is one of the oldest in the area, because in sec. X had a chapter of canons belonging to common life, as well as clerics located in Torri del Benaco and Bardolino. In 1522 it was joined to the Maggiore Hospital of Brescia. Dedicated to St. Mary, the church was rebuilt after the earthquake of 1117 and then modified and modernized in 1824. The church tower was built in 1571. Of the medieval construction of the church traces remain walled up in the bell tower and cloister. Remarkable concert Bells of the Verona parish, in shades of MIB3. Punta San Vigilio, owned by Count Guarienti of Brenzone, forms a peninsula that closes the northwest Gulf of Garda. There are in this little prominence a villa, a small church, a historic inn, a marina, the Bay of Sirens. San Vigilio has always been a destination for distinguished visitors, including Marie Louise Duchess of Parma, the King of Naples, the Emperor Alexander of Russia, the laureate Otto Hahn and his wife, the painter Edith Junghans, Winston Churchill, the actors Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh and Prince Charles of England. A Garda is the largest school of rowing standing and Venetian rowing of Italy, which is responsible for transmitting to new generations the traditional rowing Garda. Every year he participates actively in the Italian Cup and the Italian championships rowing standing 750. It is also the organizer of the traditional prize of the Assumption, where the districts of the country will compete in a race full of great significance and pride villager, to win the wooden statue of the madonna. The association bisse the fortress is a sports club that aims to train athletes to compete in the annual rowing competition of Lake Garda, called flag of the lake, where you use traditional boats (Bisse). It is one of the four founders of the Lega Bisse del Garda and participates since the first edition in 1968. Today it is the holder of the record for the most wins (12 total victories). The main football team of the city is the AC Garda Soccer that plays in Group A Venetian Promotion. It was born in 1946.
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