Riva del Garda, a city with an aristocratic appearance and a sporty character, is the best place to spend a holiday with body benefits.
The tightened town of Riva del Garda in the late XIX century became the most fashionable resort of the Habsburg Empire-here, on the lake Riviera, came all the know to improve health in the healing climate. Riva del Garda still retains an aristocratic spirit, just ways to improve their health have become much more exotic. In the alley with statues, tanned sailing lovers grow out of wet wetsuits, among neatly trimmed bushes cyclists study maps of mountain routes, and unwritten dress code involves membrane jackets, fleece jackets and bright backpacks.
Riva del Garda, it seems, does not miss his noble past. Thus, one of the main hotels of Lido Palace, Palazzo built in 1899, after the reconstruction found a luxurious glass superstructure with panoramic views, interiors in high-tech style, outdoor pool and high-tech Spa complex. In contrast to the plush palaces, carefully preserving the original interior decoration, there is nothing tunes on a lazy, still soft after even amazing views from the Windows and a soon to immediately go to investigate it. Try Windsurfing-fine: in the waters prohibited the movement of motor ships, so that nothing interferes with the athletes. For kiting will have to go a little further — the nearest school is in Torbole, half an hour on foot.
Even if you come to Riva del Garda without any sports purposes, it is impossible not to move here. The car looks somehow inappropriate means of transportation — especially when, at Breakfast, studying the rock in front and suddenly find that higher road tunnel laid a neat track, which boldly go some elderly travellers. This trail Ponale, officially recognized as one of the most beautiful Hiking routes in Europe: an hour and a half leisurely walk over the dazzling surface of the lake, where sails flash, lead to a waterfall. Fortunately, for cyclists and pedestrians there are two separate paths, so you can not be afraid of collisions, and the views of the city and the lake are such that the existence of fatigue forget immediately.
Lovers of thrills need to go to the neighboring village of Arco, where, as a job, going climbers from all over Europe. The instructor will give out climbing strapping and a bag of magnesia powder (not to slip your hands) and explain how to move to the rise to the wall turned into a dance.
Then, with a spoiled manicure, shaking knees and euphoria, you can go back to the hotel and order dinner. In restaurants Lido Palace will not sabotage your efforts towards a healthy lifestyle: the first, Tremani, specializes in gourmet dietary cuisine, and in the second, II Re della Busa, the main part of the menu is beautiful and also safe for the shape of fish.
In the cxi Spa, any sports hero will be returned to a completely peaceful state. This is the responsibility of seven ceremonies, assembled on a geographical basis — from the Japanese bath ofuro to South American facial treatments with honey and gold. After the ceremony, you can swim in the outdoor pool, overlooking the ancient Park with cypresses and magnolias, or breathe in the salt room, where the walls are lined with crystals of Himalayan salt. Because if in yoga the main thing-Shavasana, in sports-the subsequent relaxation.
You can come to Riva del Garda all year round, but real lyricists will especially like it here in the low season, spring and autumn. The climate is incredibly mild due to the ring of mountains that protect from the cold wind. Therefore, pine trees are adjacent to palm trees and lemon trees, and there are even olive groves: Riva del Garda — one of the most Northern places in Europe, where olives are grown. Local olive oil, tart and fragrant, - perhaps, the best, that necessarily need to bring with lake, if not considered tanning industry and full enlightenment. It comes immediately, it is necessary to Wake up in the room with a view of the dazzling lake surface and Brione rock that rises above the city towers.