Riva del Garda

Gorgeous and popular town on the north of Lake Garda which is overlooked by the Venetian Prealps with mint Baldo prominent.
Our stay for 3 nights is in the old town on a narrow street near the harbour.
Walking, eating, meandering, marvelling, drinking sightseeing, planning.
Some features:
- old town surrounding the harbour used for work and play.
- impossibly steep glacially shaped mountains drop into the town and National Park fringed Lago di Garda.
- colourful night time lighting on Chapel Santa Barbara and Castle (Belvedere della Grola) perched on high.
- Bicycles everywhere. Cargo bikes, knock about town bikes, very high end roadies, gravel and bike packers, and the hum of e-bikes (we will have a close encounter later). More than 20 bike hire outlets in and around town.
- farming of apples/grapes/olives. The scale of the first two is huge. Not as huge as pizza production bi still big.
- spectacular sunset down the lake. No pics as both phones were dead after a long day of cyclo-touristing.Read more