Families across northern Italy know Bussolengo for Parco Natura Viva, the large zoological garden with safari drive that is also one of Europe's reference centres for endangered-species conservation: animals are bred and reintroduced here, exchanged with zoos across the continent. It is the attraction that put the town on the family-travel map.
The municipality of 19,483 on the Adige, between Verona and Lake Garda, has far older farming roots: the church of San Valentino, frescoed inside and out, keeps the fishermen's patron, and blossoming peach orchards once coloured the whole plain. Ten minutes from the lake, it now makes a shrewd base for dodging lakeside prices.
Near Bussolengo
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