Painting by: Teresa Dominici,
Title: View from the Scaligero Castle,
Medium: Acrylic on canvas,
Size: 16"x20" (40x50cm),
Year: 2010,
Malcesine is a small town on the eastern shore of Lake Garda in northern Italy. It's a picturesque tourist resort with cobbled lanes and a castle, crammed between the blue lake waters and the massive mountain ridge behind, Monte Baldo. The town is framed by the mountains behind and facing others on the opposite side of the lake. The little town still retains its picturesque medieval center and nearby small harbor and castle.
Malcesine's most striking feature as you approach over Lake Garda is its historic castle, the Castello Scaligero, which is also the town's main tourist attraction.
The second most important building in Malcesine is the fifteenth-century Palazzo dei Capitani, close to the harbor. This was the headquarters of the Venetian rulers of the area, the Capitani del Lago.
