Stop 01
The MAS Tower
On the spotPhotoQuestion
The poet did not only want a ship on the hill: he also wanted a little harbour for his motorboat. The sentinel is a tower at the water's edge, pretending to be a restaurant.
World · Lombardy
The Holy Workshop on the Lake
A poet built a whole hill as if it were a single work. You have to read it, motto after motto.
CMYour guide: The Keeper of the Mottoes
7hours
26quests
7stamps
2prizes
Where it is played
The Holy Workshop on the Lakeon foot · 26 quests
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“Come forward, wanderer. I am the Keeper of the Mottoes. I speak of myself as the Prior spoke of his house: in the third person and with a certain effect.”The Keeper of the Mottoes
The walk
One walk, at your own pace
On foot
26
stopsOn foot between Gardone and the Vittoriale; car or bus to Salò
7 with a photo4 hidden1 unlocked by completing others
A taste
Taste four stops
What the narrator asks you. The answer, and the true fact behind it, is for you to find on the spot.
Stop 07
The Botanical Dentist (Heller Garden)
On the spotPhotoQuestion
While the poet was building a hill of marble, an Austrian dentist was planting one of bamboo, water lilies and ferns. Then an artist arrived who put Lichtenstein and Haring in it.
Stop 15
Non nisi grandia canto
On the spotQuestion
Among the magnolias there is an empty throne, with two sphinxes and a winged Victory. The Poet celebrated his victories there. The motto on the steps is a statement of poetics, and of ego.
Stop 24
The Magnificent Homeland
On the spotQuestion
Salò was never an ordinary town: it was a capital. A whole federation of lakeside villages decided from here, and the palace still has the air of someone who commands without raising their voice.
Stamps and prizes
7 stamps, 2 prizes
LR
Lake on the RivieraGD
The Dentist's GardenPP
The PriorAT
Arengo and TheatreNM
Ship, MAS and HillOG
Beyond GardoneMM
The MottoThe prizes
Keeper of the MottoesPrior of the Vittoriale