4K Walking Tour 🏰 Borghetto Sul Mincio 🏰 Verona, Italy [Travel Vlog]

Borghetto is a fraction of the municipality of Valeggio sul Mincio, in the province of Verona. It is included among the most beautiful villages in Italy.
It rises in the valley of the Mincio river, at the foot of the Visconti bridge, 1 km west of the center of Valeggio, not far from the border with Lombardy (province of Mantua), and about 27 km south-west of Verona.
The Mantova-Peschiera railway station was located near the inhabited center. Part of the site of this line has been reused for the cycle path that connects Mantua to Peschiera del Garda along the Mincio for long stretches.
Borghetto, whose urban conformation dates back to the Lombard period, owes its name to the language of the Germanic people who laid the foundations of a fortified settlement (this is the meaning in Lombard), the first agglomeration built near the ford point of the river Mincio .
Located in the place where since ancient times (and then in the Lombard period) the Mincio was waded, in the early Middle Ages it was configured as a minimal preparation, fiefdom of the abbey of San Zeno, with the function of toll collection on the wooden bridge .
In the Scaliger and then Visconti epochs it was at the center of the events that led to the construction of the various artifacts that surround it (the Visconti bridge, the Scaligero castle, the Serraglio). Its transformation into a fortified village dates back to those times, with two access gates and a polygonal circle of walls with towers, surrounded by the Seriola pit which draws water from the Mincio.
In 1405 it became part of the Republic of Venice, while in the 17th century it was the scene of the passage of the French in the War of the Spanish Succession.
On May 30, 1796, a battle took place here in which Napoleon defeated the Austrians led by Beaulieu (the Borghetto area was garrisoned by Schottendorf with 7 battalions and 15 squadrons); on 6 August of the same year it was the scene of a French cannonade by Augerau and Serurier.
In the nineteenth century Borghetto found itself involved to varying degrees in the wars of the Risorgimento: on 9 April 1848 there was a clash between Piedmontese (3rd division led by Broglia) and Austrians who withdrew, spoiling the wooden bridge; on June 29, 1859, Niel's French III Corps stopped there; on 23 June 1866 the Sirtori division encamped.
Following the second war of independence Borghetto, being on the right of the Mincio river, was assigned to the Kingdom of Italy, while the municipal capital remained to the Lombard-Veneto Kingdom; therefore Borghetto became a hamlet of Volta.
In 1954 some scenes of the film Senso by Luchino Visconti were shot near the wooden bridge over the Mincio.
Since the nineties of the twentieth century the village has undergone an intense restoration work that has redeveloped the houses straddling the Mincio, which have been transformed into public places.
In addition to the Visconti bridge in Borghetto there are the characteristic buildings with water mills, some of which have been put back into operation, and the parish church dedicated to St. Mark the Evangelist; the building is flanked by the bell tower of the Scala era which contains a bell dating back to the year 1381 (one of the oldest in the Verona area).
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