Malcesine has easy access to Monte Baldo and the magnificent ruins of the Scaliger castle. Smaller Limone is even more quaint, located at the foot of a mountain and covered in the pastel colours ...

Outside the oil sector, real production was falling, and pre-occupation with trading and the pursuit of easy surplus rising import dependency intensified, and domestic food security eroded as the ...

The weather is grand (some of the best in Europe), there’s a pastel-hued old town and castles ... Bread, focaccia, fish, olive oil and orecchiette pasta (known as ‘little ears’) are all ...