Castello Scaligero di Sirmione
Moated lakeside fortress with a rare fourteenth-century walled harbor built to shelter medieval war galleys.
Castello Scaligero di Sirmione sits on the edge of Lake Garda with a birth date its own records can't agree on, and this guide walks through the two rival claims, a century apart, about which della Scala ruler actually raised these walls. It follows the family's hold on Sirmione and the fortified harbor cut into the lakeshore behind you, built to shelter war galleys and patrol boats out of sight of the water. You'll hear what a Venetian chronicler said the harbor was for, and how the della Scala coat of arms ended up on its towers. The basin itself has its own long, strange history of silting, draining and standing empty.
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