Villa, 600 m²

Desenzano del Garda, Brescia (province)

Lake Garda

Desenzano del Garda, lakefront, building renovated in 2008, arranged over 3 floors above ground plus basement for a total of 600 m2, all connected by lift.
On the third floor, reachable by lift that arrives directly in the apartment, there is a very luxurious penthouse with a lake view of about 220 m2, consisting of a living room, kitchen and dining room which have access to the 25 m2 habitable terrace with a view lake, 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms plus utility room and laundry.
Furniture is included in the price, except personal effects.
Prior to the renovation, there was a hotel in the building after which the destination was changed and the ground floor, first floor and second floor are, at the moment, commercial use.
The penthouse is for residential use.
Exceptional position on the lakefront, recent renovation, sold en bloc.
It is possible to make a change of use from commercial to residential by building another 3 apartments.

Lake Garda
Lake Garda or Benaco is the largest Italian lake, with a surface area of about 370 km² (third in depth after Como and Maggiore). A hinge between three regions, Lombardy (province of Brescia), Veneto (province of Verona), Trentino-Alto Adige (province of Trento), it is placed parallel to the Adige, from which it is divided by the massif of Mount Baldo. To the north it is narrow in a funnel while to the south it widens, surrounded by morainic hills which make the landscape gentler.The lake is an important tourist destination and is visited by millions of people every year. In Roman times the lake was known as Benacus and by some it was revered as the god Benacus, personification of the lake itself, sometimes associated with the cult of the god Neptune. Today it is better known as Lake Garda, a toponym attested since the Middle Ages and of Germanic origin, deriving from that of the town of the same name on the Veronese side of the lake, which, together with another famous locality on the lake, Gardone Riviera, and other less known, such as Gàrdola, Gardoncino, Gardoni, Guàrdola and Le Garde, testify to the Germanic presence that goes from the 6th to the 8th century, in particular the Lombard one. The toponym Garda, with which the lake is already called in some documents of the eighth century, is the evolution of the Germanic word warda, or "place of guard" or "place of observation". The classic toponym of the lake, or Benācus lacus (Benaco), is almost certainly of Celtic origin, therefore prior to Roman rule, and should derive from bennacus, comparable with the Irish bennach, and would mean "horned", or with many promontories. The translation "cuckold" is also interpreted in reference to the peninsula of Sirmione. The Latin voice of Benaco is attested as Benācus, -i and therefore assumes a flat accent (Benàco): the Italian version of the tonic accent remains faithful to the Latin accent, therefore it must be pronounced with the accent on the "a".