Where Garda narrows between the mountains, Riva was for centuries the Habsburg empire's southern port: Mitteleuropean elegance survives in its palaces, and Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka came to take cures at the von Hartungen sanatorium. The Rocca stands in the water with its museum; the Bastione, reached by panoramic cable car, grants the sweeping view over lake and olive groves.
The punctual afternoon wind — the Ora — made Riva and Torbole a European capital of sailing and windsurfing; the crags around are a climbing eldorado. Sport, Habsburgs and olive trees: Trentino's Garda is another story, and it starts here.
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Next up: Our Lady of the Assumption, patron of the town of the Torre Apponale on Lake Garda, Sunday 15 August
Nearest airport: Verona Catullo, 54 km away
Riva del Garda is part of 🛶 Lakes
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📅 Every year, on 15 August; Saint Andrew, co-patron, is celebrated on 30 November
Riva del Garda celebrates Our Lady of the Assumption on 15 August and Saint Andrew, co-patron, on 30 November; along the lakefront stand the Torre Apponale, overlooking the harbour, and the 14th-century Rocca, today home to the Alto Garda Museum.
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