Pozzolengo

Pozzolengo is called the Gateway of the “Colline Moreniche del Garda“,

is a boundary municipality between the provinces of Brescia, Mantua and Verona. Its activity has remained predominantly agricultural with the cultivation of the vine and maize, even if it has the tourism that comes from the lake, to visit in Pozzolengo its castle and the territory, which attracts the lush greenery and tranquility of the countryside where to turn safely by bicycle to discover the hinterland and its cottages, where you will find products of “Colline Moreniche del Garda” and certainly the excellent salami of Pozzolengo and Lugana wine.

pozzolengo-castello

Pozzolengo castle

TERRITORY OF POZZOLENGO

Province: Brescia
Hamlets: Ballino, Le Benedette, Belvedere, Bosco, Cascina Ceresa, Cascina Trento, Ceresa, Colombara, Colombara Florio, Martelosio Sotto, Pirenei, Ponte Del Cantone, Rondotto, Zappello
Surrounding Municipalities: Cavriana (Mn), Desenzano del Garda, Lonato del Garda, Monzambano (Mn), Peschiera del Garda (Vr), Ponti sul Mincio (Mn)
Altitude: 135 m s.l.m. – Population: 3.620 – 25010 – Inhabitants name: pozzolenghesi
Pozzolengo is the last town in the province of Brescia and is the northern gateway to the land of the Colline Moreniche del Garda. Its hilly terrain, watered by the river Redone, spread inland south of the lake, behind Desenzano del Garda and Sirmione. A major activity is the cultivation of the vine which covered all the hills.

HISTORY OF POZZOLENGO

These lands have been inhabited since prehistoric times, as confirmed by the discovery of objects made ​​of flint in the Abbey of St. Vigilio, his first group of houses developed near a refreshment station along the Via Gallica between Brescia and Verona, between places Gozza and St. Gallo, but then moved where there is the church of St. Giuseppe. Around the year 1000 is built on a hill Fluno first castle to defend against incursions of the Hungarians and Hungarians, then it will be the city of Brescia, in the middle of the thirteenth century to decide to rebuild and expand greatly in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Pozzolengo lived at that time a period of economic development and peace, until 1630 with the arrival of the Germans, sent by Ferdinand II of Austria, who won the Venetian army in Goito and looted Peschiera came up to here, the population retreated to the castle where he remained for a few days avoiding the sack.

LOCAL PRODUCTS  AND LOCAL CUISINE OF POZZOLENGO

Lugana wine, Pozzolengo salami, Fresh pasta,