MADERNO

This locality is on the Brescian side of the lake. It appears on a gulf closed by a homonymous promontory; and by the Fasano point. The already mild lake climate takes advantage of the northern mountainous shelter, offering mild weather all year round. Here rich Mediterranean vegetation is embellished with more varieties such as lemon and orange trees as well as oleander, palm and olive trees.
This place is connected to Torri del Benaco (on the opposite bank) by a ferryboat which saves a long way on the irregular and easily congested road of the western gardesan. This centre had an importance during the Roman age, in Maderno commons period it was the capital of the brescian Riviera under Barbarossa favour.
The always growing importance stopped in the second half of the fourteenth cent, when Beatrice della Scala proclaimed Salò capital of the "Magnifica Patria".
S. Andrea church in Lombard-Romanesque style, was built in the twelfth cent., on the ruins of a early-Christian temple.
The architecture recalls elements that are already present in San Zeno of Verona, while the richness of front sculptures draws on the work of Lombard masters, that interpreted themes of the figurative Christian tradition. The inside keeps an altar piece by A. Paglia which shows San Filippo Neri, Carlo Borromeo, Gaetano and Giuseppe; a sixteenth century canvas by Andrea Bertanza ( Saint Lorenzo martyrdom); a seventeenth century canvas portraying Christ Baptism; frescoes of the second half of the sixteenth cent.
Other tourist attractions are S.Ercolano (nineteenth cent.) parish church that keeps fine pictures and the relics of the patron saint; San Bartolomeo church ( Holy Family of Young Palma) and the monument to Giuseppe Zanardelli (L. Bistolfi).
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