Lake Garda

Lake Garda stretches southward from the Alps between the territories of Brescia and Verona. Known to the Romans as Benacus, it is enclosed by mountains at its northern end and opens toward the Lombard plain in the south. During the fifteenth-century war between Venice and Milan, a Venetian fleet was hauled overland from the Adige valley to the lake. Its ships helped challenge Milanese control of these waters.