The brightest jewel in Garda’s crown is a water-borne citadel at the tip of a 3-km sandy promontory. The pedestrian ways, the lush gardens and fruit groves, the grotto, villa, small church with 14thC frescos, hot springs, aqueduct and extreme congestion in the holiday season make it a place to see but not to linger in. Catullus the Roman poet had a villa here; so did Toscanini the conductor, 2,000 years after him.