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Villa Florida is the ideal Hotel to discover the Central European town on Lake Garda.
The discreet art of hospitality has ancient roots, it is something that cannot be improvised and grows little by little. Gardone Riviera has the privilege of first starting the Central European history in 1883 till the nefarious outbreak of WWI in 1915.
From the cultural point of view, those are almost forgotten years, overshadowed by the Garda period of D’Annunzio, who lived here from 1921 until his death in 1938. If the rich and farsighted Central European aristocracy created the Kurort (that is the winter health resort), D’Annunzio had the merit of launching Gardone Riviera as fashionable summer tourist resort.
In sixty years two different and opposing ways of reading and building the territory followed one another, the one of the inimitable architectural scenes often attributable to Otto Wagner on one side and the one of Giancarlo Maroni’s Italian style with the Vittoriale ( which, by wish of the commander, had to “ungermanize” what left behind by the enemy during the Great War, which had just ended).
For a careful and curious traveler, walking along the Promenade Paul Heyse, visiting the Park of Villa Alba and the Valletta di Fraole, breathing the fresh air on the lakefront and climbing up the nice Via Disciplina as far as Gardone Sopra means reviving the Belle Epoque together with an entire century of élite tourism and great culture. Also for us living here the emotions taste every day like past rediscovered.
For those who want to study the historical heritage of Gardone Riviera in deep, we suggest reading the valuable books of our friend Attilio Mazza or visiting http://blog.hotelvillaflorida.it/omaggio-a-andre-heller-artista-innamorato-di-gardone-riviera-sul-lago-di-garda about Andrè Heller.
Also the director of Hotel Villa Florida, if he has time, will be pleased to speak about his Gardone, maybe in front of a nice cup of coffee, on the panoramic terrace Belvedere dell’Angelo.