Hidden Treasures: To Torbole in Goethe's footsteps
Hiking trail • Garda Trentino and Valle di Ledro
Hidden Treasures: To Torbole in Goethe's footsteps
<p>A <strong>literary stroll</strong> which follows in the footsteps of the great German poet Goethe from Nago to Torbole, during his celebrated Italian tour (1786 - 1788).</p>
<p>Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, already famous as the author of “The Sorrows of Young Werther” and a minister of Weimar, visited Italy between 1786 and 1787, in search of inspiration in the home of classical writers, art and culture. And he could hardly resist a visit to Lake Garda, praised as “a magnificent product of nature” after the visits of other important figures of European culture such as the French philosopher Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1780) or the earlier visit of Albrecht Dürer (1495). </p> <p><strong>This literary stroll follows in the footsteps of Goethe who arrived in Torbole on the evening of 12th September 1786</strong>, going down to Nago on foot along the historic Santa Lucia road, at the time the only way of getting to Lake Garda from the Adige Valley.</p> <p>Each stage is accompanied by quotations with notes on the original text of Goethe's “Italian Journey” (see gallery).</p>
