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When the Olives Drop Around San Pietro in Mavino, Sirmione

September 24, 2026 by Tom Royce
Vintage travel poster for Sirmione, Lombardy, Italy, featuring Castello Scaligero set on Lake Garda with surrounding scenery and distant mountains.

Most visitors treat Sirmione as the castle at the throat of the peninsula and a queue for thermal water. I walk the other way: past the last gelato windows, onto the rising path where the land narrows and the olive trees take over. San Pietro in Mavino sits up there, a small stone church older … Read more

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