Malcesine

Malcesine (Veneto, Italy) is a city on the eastern shore of Lake Garda, with 3705 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012).

Malcesine is often called "the pearl of Lake Garda " means. This term, however, other places such as Riva del Garda or Limone sul Garda are often associated. Today the city is heavily influenced by tourism.

In addition to the places Riva del Garda and Nago-Torbole Malcesine is partly still popular as a city in the north of Lake Garda with windsurfers, kitesurfers and sailors because of their location to get you started with the two main winds of the northern Lake Garda Pelér and Ora.

From Malcesine cableway leads to the nearby town Tratto Spino at 1760 meters at the Monte Baldo massif.

The Comune di Malcesine consists of the districts Cassone and Navene.

History

The old city is settled around the castle rock. A first Burgbau found here by 568 instead of under the Lombards. After the destruction of this facility and reconstruction of the city by the Franks came later to the Scaliger, which expanded the castle. For the first time nor the postage Posterno ( " Rear Port "), one today as a small beach ( spiagetta ) used bay comes directly below the bay ⊙ 45.76622410.807867. Not far away, at the end of Via Post Erna, is a house built in the rock below the castle house, which now serves as a private residence and earlier probably housed the guards who guarded the stairs from the harbor to the castle.

Attractions

Scaligero

Characterised is the image of the old town with its many narrow streets and visible from well Scaliger Castle. This stands on a promontory on the shores of the lake and grants from the tower a view over the town and the lake. The old main castle with palace and castle keep was built by the Scaliger. In the lower court today is the " Palazzo Inferiore ", the Venice was in 1620 built for his garrison.

Goethe also made ​​in 1786 during his famous " Italian Journey " station in Malcesine. He was even briefly detained on suspicion of espionage, when he was observed when drawing the Scaliger Castle. Nevertheless, he showed himself in his diary fascinated by the place and its people. A bust in the castle and two plaques that are attached to the Hotel San Marco in close proximity to the port and in the Via Post Erna below the castle, remember his visit.

Palazzo dei Capitani

Another attraction is the " Palazzo dei Capitani ", which has already been built in the late 13th century by the Della Scala family for their governor. The palace was rebuilt in the 15th century in the style of a Venetian Gothic. He was the seat of the governor from the eastern shore, who resided alternately in Garda, Torri del Benaco and Malcesine up. Towards the lake, a palm garden extends with a pier over which the " Captain " of his time reached his house.

Santo Stefano

The parish church of Santo Stefano is a Baroque church in the early 18th century. The first note on the existence of a parish dates back to the early years of the 9th century. The church contains in the first chapel of the right rear, the hl the. Is dedicated to Peter, an altarpiece of the Deposition of Girolamo dai Libri ( 1471-1555 ). Next are located in the church including the altars of the Holy Benigno and Carlo (1769 ) and the Seven Joys ( Sette Allegrezze, 1771), a tabernacle dating from the 15th century. The paintings in the presbytery are from Felice Boscarotti. Very interesting are the fourteen Stations of the Cross ( Via Crucis ).

Benigno and Caro

The parish church of Benigno and Caro is named after the two saints of the Catholic Church and San Benigno di Malcesine San Caro di Malcesine. The small church has a single nave with a barrel vault. The altar of red and white marble in Baroque style contains a crucifix. 1784 Before the altar stood in the middle of the choir room and was then converted to its end, to create the 140 friars place. On the epistle side, there is a fresco of the Transfiguration of the Lord may take action against The Last Supper. Outside the balustrade above the door of the bell tower is a valuable work of an unknown painter of the Renaissance can be seen. The painting depicts the two patronage owner of the place, Benigno and Caro, they give sight back to the bed of the blind Bartolomeo Fioravante. In the background is the brotherhood of the saints. In a small reproduction you will find the painting under the window on the Epistle side, while on the on the Gospel side, the saints are represented in the episcopal hall, as their rain-soaked coats hang in the sun's rays, which they have brought on their journey to Verona, when they had to be justified by false accusations, so the tradition. The medallion above the altar with the two saints in adoration before the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar was created by a local painter Bernardino Casari in the late 18th century. The rest is a recent decoration of the domestic laity artist Giuseppe Martini. The door to the north and facing the bell tower of the leads in the little sacristy, which is quite moist because of their low height under the outdoor level.

The origin of the church is unknown, the oldest notes go back to the year 1532. There, in the books of the pastoral visit, it is mentioned that it was a place of great devotion and that it had assigned a priest to provide the service. Now the church is the seat of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament. She was recognized by the Napoleonic government, although other fraternities were banned and their property was nationalized. The small, square, tapered bell tower with pinnacles at the corners based on the roof.

The facade is a sketch with a rectangular window in the middle, two niches at the sides with the statues of the two titular saint and a square door in two stages. At the height of the eaves of the surrounding houses you can still see the iron, which were once used to tension the tent cloth over the spot on the Kirchweihtag.

Images of the Church

Chancel

Entrance from inside

Monte Baldo

From Malcesine cableway ( funivia ) leads to Monte Baldo, which is also used by hikers and cyclists who use the gravel as downhill trails. Even as the launch site for paragliders the Monte Baldo is due to its easy accessibility via the cable car and the enormous difference in altitude (about 1,680 m) to the landing site in Malcesine extremely popular. Safety training courses are conducted over water here regularly.

Gallery

Goethe- Herme in the courtyard of the Scaliger Castle

Malcesine 2007

Malcesine with Monte Baldo ( Edward Theodore Compton, 1913)

Santo Stefano

The castle from the east, as she has seen and drawn Goethe

The castle in the evening light, west side

Plaque: "Here drew JW Goethe on 1 Sept. 1786 the castle ."

Via Post Erna, it leads from the castle to the first port (Porto Posterno ).

Porto Posterno

Porta Orientale: built by King Berengar I, to reinforce the wall ring. At the same time La Porta Nuova and the Bochera Gate were built.

Porta Siresina: The construction of the gate is dated to the period after 590 AD, in which the castle was destroyed by the Franks.

Porta della Pozza: This one came from Porto Posterno in the district Pozza. In the side one can see the original holes, in which on the one hand (left), the door leaf and rotatably supported on the other ( right) a latch could be inserted into the wall.

Palazzo Veneziano within the castle grounds: the building served until 1618 as the seat of the Venetian Seehauptleute, which was subordinate to the east bank. From 1798 to 1866, the Austrians took advantage of the building primarily as a military accommodation, hence the name casemate. It now houses a natural history museum.

View from the castle on the eastern shore of Lake Garda north of the town, in the background the Monte Brione between Torbole and Riva

In 1949 discovered and bared mural of a Byzantine Madonna on an inner castle wall

View from the castle on the Monte Baldo cable car in picture center

View from the castle over the town to the south of Lake Garda

View to the castle, background: Garda west bank

The port