Less than 30 km south-west of Verona, Borghetto sul Mincio is rated among Italy’s most beautiful villages. Preservation efforts have managed to retain its evocative medieval appearance as a fortified settlement on the river. 

The origins of the village go back to the time of the Lombard domination of the area, when Borghetto was a strategic outpost on the river Mincio. For almost 1,000 years, Borghetto sul Mincio was part of the south-west route anyone needed to take to move across Venetian lands; over the centuries even large armies, such as the French army of Napoleon in 1796, crossed its fortified bridge.