Villa Brenzoni-Guarienti

Villa Guarienti is located in Punta S. Vigilio, the extreme offshoot of Monte Baldo that penetrates the lake dividing the Gulf of Garda from the Baia delle Sirene, the most evocative site on the Veronese coast.

 The villa is a building from 1540, probably built to a design by the architect Michele Sammicheli, commissioned by the cultured Agostino Brenzoni and later passed to the Guarienti counts of Brenzone. The beautiful garden of late Renaissance layout is a valid example of an Italian garden, with precious elements of humanistic culture such as the rotunda surrounded by tall cypresses and adorned with Roman tastes.

 There are other buildings from the same period including one with a double loggia, now a Hotel, which overlooks the lake near the characteristic marina and a small church of very ancient origins and renovated several times. The villa is accessed via a long avenue of centuries-old cypress trees that crosses an olive grove.