Art

Many are the events and exhibitions that give colour to the Malcesine cultural scene and make it lively and interesting: artists, painters and sculptors of international renown have found in the rooms and gardens of the Palazzo dei Capitani and of the Castello Scaligero the ideal place for their compositions.

The medieval village, the landscape and the natural surroundings blend together with art in its numerous expressions.

The northern part of Lake Garda, has always represented a first encounter with the Latin world for visitors from the countries of central Europe.
A first testimony of this romantic idea of Garda and Italy, which spread mainly through the countries of German and English-speaking culture starting in the early-18th century, was provided by J.W.Goethe, one of the major German poets and writers who described magnificently those feelings which still today are conveyed and received by visitors to Lake Garda, especially in the autumn.

It was in fact in that period of the year that Goethe handed Malcesine over to history and literature, when he stopped in the town on 13 September 1786 and became the protagonist of a story with almost theatrical repercussions.