Rivoli Veronese

At the end of the Adige Valley there is Rivoli Veronese, a town with about 2,000 inhabitants that lies at the foot of Monte Baldo on the banks of the Adige. It ‘a small town near Lake Garda, which offers a rich historical heritage for tourism, but not yet exploited by the inhabitants of the town of Rivoli. Rivoli Veronese is at the center of a moraine that was formed during the Quaternary glaciations, has a semicircular shape whose geometric center is located on Mount Castello. From the hills you can enjoy a breathtaking view of up to Lake Garda. Climbing the Rocca of Rivoli you can see the valley with its vineyards and to the west the mountain Gù.rivoli-veronese

TERRITORY OF RIVOLI VERONESE

Province: Verona
Hamlets: Canale, Gaium
Surrounding municipalities: Affi, Brentino Belluno, Caprino Veronese, Cavaion Veronese, Costermano, Dolcè, Sant’Ambrogio Valpolicella
Altitude: 191 m s.l.m. – Population: 2.128 – Inhabitants name: rivolesiThe territory of the town of Rivoli is formed by a moraine, bathed by the river Adige at the mouth of Vallagarina, at the foot of Mount Baldo and a few kilometers from Lake Garda. The amphitheater of Rivoli Veronese has a perfect semicircular shape with a central mountain Castello.

HISTORY OF RIVOLI VERONESE

The geographical position of Rivoli Veronese meant that it was a strategic position to control both the passages by land than by river. On its territory there are two fossil localities of significant scientific and cultural importance, Monte La Mesa and Rivoli Veronese, both dating back to the early Pleistocene, 1.75 million years the site of Monte La Mesa and 2.2 million years the site of Rivoli Veronese. The territory of Rivoli has always been a place of passage along the lines of communication between northern Europe and the Mediterranean , at first there were the tracks Paleolithic, then the Via Claudia Augusta Roman Empire and the imperial road in the Middle Ages. From archaeological research conducted in 1875 by G.Pellegrini emerged numerous artifacts and ceramic flint, so many that the site of Rivoli Veronese could even be considered a ” workshop of prehistoric flint tools and weapons ” , ten years later, in 1885 , S. de’ Stefani public of the material found in the district of ” Castello” , the bronze finds from the Iron

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Forte di Rivoli

Age . Subsequently, only in the 60s are shot studies and excavations of this area with numerous other findings that testify to the existence, in the Neolithic , a community can manage and control traffic along the Adige valley between the Alps and the Po Valley. At the end of the 70s there are further findings , perimeter walls , the basement of a church and weapons , which attest to the existence , between the X-XII century, a rivoli-veronese-museo-napoleonicocastle built of stone and wood on the top of the Rocca di Rivoli with important military functions . In 1797 Rivoli was the scene of a battle that Napoleon won against the Austrians , to commemorate this victory was erected by Napoleon on the battlefield a great twenty meters high column , a column that beat the Austrians in 1814 after the fall of Napoleon ; in its place now stands a mausoleum , near which are the remains of the French fighters . In 1848 the Piedmontese army troops fought and won against the Austrian troops . In the center of Rivoli , we find the museum with a collection of Napoleonic uniforms and documents of the time.

 TO VISIT IN RIVOLI VERONESE

Fort of Rivoli, Napoleonic Museum, Church of San Giovanni Battista, Church of Sant’Antonio da Padova, Church of San Luca Evangelista, Church of San Zeno, Church of San Michele Arcangelo, Church of San Pietro in Cattedra, Capitelli,

LOCAL PRODUCTS AND LOCAL CUISINE OF RIVOLI VERONESE