Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Dante`s Paradiso

A lake there lies, at foot of that proud Alp

That o’er the Tyrol locks Germania in,

Its name Benacus, from whose ample breast
  
A thousand springs, methinks, and more, between

Camonica and Garda, issuing forth,

Water the Apennine.


This words of the greatest Italian poet Dante in his Masterpiece, the epic poem called „Divine Commedy” are a tribute to our Lake. In the XX part of the Inferno Virgil, his master, explains the origin of the Lombard city Mantua and continues the description of the area of the lake from Peschiera to Verona, begun by the poet in chapter XII where carefully describes the landscapes surround the Adige, especially for the territories of Rovereto and Marco.
Like Dante, many artist have done a stop on Lake Garda during their Grandtour and the cultural effects they have done, let today a heritage of immense value. Each story helps us understand the beauty of these places and landscapes that inspire feelings close to art, music, poem.
Sometime watching at the sunsets in September we are led to ask ourselves if in our hotel, with its history and build in the Venetian style, some poets have composed verses or some painter has put his painting on canvas.



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