Hotel Du Lac in Gargnano, Brescia, Italy | Hotel

The Hotel Du Lac, in Gargnano, Italy has been in the Arosio family for two generations, and is set in a typical, elegant Nineteenth-Century lakeside house. Standing right at the water’s edge, it is one of Lake Garda’s smallest and most enchanting hotels.

Hotel Du Lac, in Gargnano, Italy is located in the little village of Villa, in a splendid, peaceful position on the Mediterranean-like shores of Lake Garda, far from the noise and bustle of the main road, the strada statale Gardesana Occidentale. Surrounded by Lombardy’s alpine foothills, which are part of the parco natural dell Alto Garda Bresciano nature reserve, it looks across the lake at the spectacular Monte Baldo mountain range, in the Veneto region, which stands 2,200 meters tall, dominating the scene in all its magnificent splendor. The main facade, in Venetian red, overlooks the distinctive narrow main street, once known as “lakeside royal postal road", embellished with numerous bougainvilleas.

Just a stone’s throw away from Hotel Du Lac, in Gargnano, Italy is the square of the little port, and Villa Igea, home to the English writer D. H. Lawrence during his stay on Lake Garda from October 1912 to May 1913. In addition to D. H. Lawrence, the Italian poet Gabriele D Annunzio also chose these shores to build his museum-house, il Vittoriale, which can still be visited in Gardone Riviera.