The Botanical Garden of Garden Riviera, also known as A. Hruska Botanical Garden, is located in the very center of the Garden Riviera, achieving an elegant and balanced passage between the two sides of the city: the first, modern and intensely frequented by mainstream tourists, and the other one, which have kept its traditional air, being less affected by the tourism boom.

The home of decadent writer Gabriele D'Annunzio was designed by Giancarlo Maroni. Construction began in 1921 and in 1925 was declared a national monument. Not just a house where the poet lived and worked but a sort of citadel, which houses a number of buildings, plazas, theaters, streets and fountains.

Whether arriving by land or lake the castle immediately catches your eye. Sturdy yet dreamlike, with its 31 meter high pentagonal tower it dominates all of Malcesine and the surrounding area. It's background is served by the chromatic blue of the lake and green of Monte Baldo mountains.

The Roman poet Catullus, who lived from 84 to 54 BC, had a villa at the far end of the peninsula. Its extensive ruins still puzzle historians, whose theories on its exact nature vary from a huge bath complex to an ancient version of a full-service resort.