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Sirmione is located on a 4km into the lake peninsula on the southern shore of Lake Garda in the Lombardy region and has about 8200 inhabitants.. <9> <9> The almost triangular peninsula consists of 3 hills: ´Cortine´, ´San Pietro in Mavino´ and the ´Caves of Catullus´.. <9> <9> Sirmione´s climate is mild and well-tempered, with a warm spring and mild winters.. <9> <9> <994/15888> <994/1183037> <994/1142990> <9> <9> <994/1142988> <994/1142987> <994/1142986> <9> <9> Historical < 9> <9> * first finds from the Stone Age, 2nd Jtsd.. Chr. <9> * in the 17th century.. v.. In the 3rd century BC there were pile-dwelling settlements, from Saló to Garda.. <9> * In Roman times Sirmione holiday home was rich Romans, it created some large villas, such as the ´Caves of Catullus´, a villa built after the poet Gaius Valerius Catullus, who in the 1st century BC.. Has lived in Rome, is named.. <9> * under the Longobards in the 6th cent.. n. Chr. many monasteries and churches arose, which were not preserved however. <9> * Sirmione became in the course of or in the consequence of the Inquisition in the 13.Jhrdt.. in southern France a retreat for Cathars and Patarins.. <9> * 1262 the della Scala family takes control of the cities of Verona and Sirmione <9> * 1276 Massimo della Scala persecutes the deeply religious patricians who opposed the wealth of the Church.. Della Scala won and the losers of this battle landed at the stake <9> Construction and development of the Roman fortifications among the Scaligers and Venetians.. <9> <9> Attractions <9> <9> * Old Town.. As in many other Lake Garda places, quaint little streets with picturesque boutiques, antique shops, cafes and restaurants <9> Castello Scaligero, Viale Guglielmo Marconi 2, the Scaliger Castle including large harbor basin and ring wall that separates the place from the mainland.. It was built on an old Roman fort in the 13th century.. Sirmione built and defended against attackers on the first of the 3 hills.. Accessible via a drawbridge that leads over a deep moat, you enter the castle through a large portal.. <9> Once again, the castle was the place of greatest possible security, especially in conjunction with a sophisticated defensive system of walls, drawbridges, stairs and corridors.. <9> * Santa Maria Maggiore, Via SM Maggiore 18, built in the 15th c.. Wood carvings from the 16th century, as well as frescoes <9> * San Pietro in Mavino, built in the 8th century.. on the 2nd hill of Sirmione, on the foundations of a Roman temple.. Frescoes from the 12th and 16th century.. <9> * The Caves of Catullus, Via C. Arici 13, at the very tip of the peninsula, remains of a Roman villa.. The most important archaeological site of northern Italy, built in the 2nd century.. n. Chr. <9> The buildings take their name from the poet Catullus, who sought peace here.. When the Venetians found the foundations and cellars of this manor, they mistook them for the Villa of the Catull family, but in reality the buildings on 2 hectares were an ancient sanatorium with a thermal bath.. <9> Today, except for a large retaining wall under the villa, nothing has been preserved.. For more information, visit the small museum at the entrance <9> * thermal baths of Catullus.. The sirmione water is sulfur, bromine and iodine.. It rises at Monte Baldo in Veneto at 2200 m altitude and flows from there to 2100m below sea level, is heated and enriched with minerals.. The way to Sirmione takes about 20 years from the source to Lake Garda and then to the surface of the springs of Boiola, Virgilio and Catullo at a temperature of 69 ° C.. <9> Even the Romans used the thermal water and even laid down lead pipes at a depth of 18 meters in order to convey it.. <9> Treatment of skin diseases, rheumatism and respiratory diseases, as well as in certain forms of deafness <9> <9> <994/1142984> <994/1142983> <994/1142982> <994/1142978> <9> <994 / 1142977> <994/1142976> <994/1142975> <994/1142979> <9> <994/1142974> <994/1142973> <994/1142972> <994/1142944>