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Lake Garda

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Lake Garda (Lago di Garda or Lago Benàco, Benacus; Lach de Garda; Łago de Garda) is the largest lake in Italy. [1]

88 relations: Adige, Alemanni, Bardolino, Battle of Lake Benacus, Battle of Rivoli, Battle of Solferino, Benito Mussolini, Brenzone sul Garda, Brescia, Cascate del Varone, Castelnuovo del Garda, Castle, Catarrh, Catullus, Citrus, Comune, Coregonus, Critically endangered, Crustacean, Desenzano del Garda, Ear, Endemism, Francis of Assisi, Galeas per montes, Garda, Veneto, Gardaland, Gardone Riviera, Gargnano, Geneva Conventions, Glacier, Grottoes of Catullus, Ice age, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, Isola del Garda, Italian Social Republic, Italian unification, Italy, IUCN Red List, Journal of Fish Biology, Kiteboarding, Lago di Ledro, Lake, Lazise, Limone sul Garda, Lonato del Garda, Malcesine, Manerba del Garda, Mediterranean Sea, Milan, Mincio, ..., Moniga del Garda, Monte Baldo, Moraine, Mori-Torbole tunnel, Nago–Torbole, Napoleon, Naval operations on Lake Garda, 1866, Nazism, Olive, Padenghe sul Garda, Paleolithic, Peninsula, Peschiera del Garda, Province of Brescia, Province of Verona, Riva del Garda, River Ponale, Roman Republic, Sailing, Salò, Salmo carpio, Salmonidae, San Felice del Benaco, Sarca, Scaliger, Sirmione, Spring (hydrology), Sulfur, Tignale, Torri del Benaco, Toscolano-Maderno, Tremosine, Trentino, Venice, Verona, Windsurfing, World War II, Zooplankton. Expand index (38 more) »

Adige

The Adige (Etsch; Àdexe; Adisch; Adesc; Athesis; Ἄθεσις) is the second longest river in Italy after the Po, rising in the Alps in the province of South Tyrol near the Italian border with Austria and Switzerland, flowing through most of North-East Italy to the Adriatic Sea.

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Alemanni

The Alemanni (also Alamanni; Suebi "Swabians") were a confederation of Germanic tribes on the Upper Rhine River.

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Bardolino

Bardolino is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Verona in the Italian region Veneto, located about west of Venice and about northwest of Verona.

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Battle of Lake Benacus

The Battle of Lake Benacus was fought along the banks of Lake Garda in northern Italy, which was known to the Romans as Benacus, in 268 or early 269 AD, between the army under the command of the Roman Emperor Claudius II and the Germanic tribes of the Alamanni and Juthungi.

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Battle of Rivoli

The Battle of Rivoli (14–15 January 1797) was a key victory in the French campaign in Italy against Austria.

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Battle of Solferino

The Battle of Solferino (referred to in Italy as the Battle of Solferino and San Martino) on 24 June 1859 resulted in the victory of the allied French Army under Napoleon III and Sardinian Army under Victor Emmanuel II (together known as the Franco-Sardinian Alliance) against the Austrian Army under Emperor Franz Joseph I. It was the last major battle in world history where all the armies were under the personal command of their monarchs.

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Benito Mussolini

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (29 July 1883 – 28 April 1945) was an Italian politician and journalist who was the leader of the National Fascist Party (Partito Nazionale Fascista, PNF).

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Brenzone sul Garda

Brenzone is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Verona in the Italian region Veneto, located on the eastern shore of Lake Garda about west of Venice and about northwest of Verona.

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Brescia

Brescia (Lombard: Brèsa,, or; Brixia; Bressa) is a city and comune in the region of Lombardy in northern Italy.

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Cascate del Varone

The Cascate del Varone (Varone Falls) is located in the town of Tenno in Trentino, 3 km from Riva del Garda.

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Castelnuovo del Garda

Castelnuovo del Garda is an Italian comune (municipality), in the Province of Verona, in Veneto, on a couple of morainic hills few kilometers south-east from Garda lake.

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Castle

A castle (from castellum) is a type of fortified structure built during the Middle Ages by predominantly the nobility or royalty and by military orders.

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Catarrh

Catarrh, or catarrhal inflammation, is inflammation of the mucous membranes in one of the airways or cavities of the body, usually with reference to the throat and paranasal sinuses.

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Catullus

Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84 – c. 54 BC) was a Latin poet of the late Roman Republic who wrote chiefly in the neoteric style of poetry, which is about personal life rather than classical heroes.

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Citrus

Citrus is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs in the rue family, Rutaceae.

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Comune

The comune (plural: comuni) is a basic administrative division in Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality.

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Coregonus

Coregonus is a diverse genus of fish in the salmon family (Salmonidae).

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Critically endangered

A critically endangered (CR) species is one which has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild.

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Crustacean

Crustaceans (Crustacea) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such familiar animals as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill, woodlice, and barnacles.

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Desenzano del Garda

Desenzano del Garda (Eastern Lombard: Dezensà) is a town and comune in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy, Italy, on the southwestern shore of Lake Garda.

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Ear

The ear is the organ of hearing and, in mammals, balance.

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Endemism

Endemism is the ecological state of a species being unique to a defined geographic location, such as an island, nation, country or other defined zone, or habitat type; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.

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Francis of Assisi

Saint Francis of Assisi (San Francesco d'Assisi), born Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone, informally named as Francesco (1181/11823 October 1226), was an Italian Catholic friar, deacon and preacher.

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Galeas per montes

Galeas per montes is the name by which an enterprise of military engineering made between December 1438 and April 1439 by the Republic of Venice and consisting of the transport of ships, Galley and frigates from Adriatic Sea to Lake Garda, climbing the river Adige to Rovereto and transporting ships by land to Torbole, on the northern shores of the lake.

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Garda, Veneto

Garda is a comune on the shore of Lake Garda, in the province of Verona, region of Veneto, Northeastern Italy.

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Gardaland

Gardaland is an amusement park located in North-Eastern Italy.

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Gardone Riviera

Gardone Riviera is a town and comune in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy.

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Gargnano

Gargnano is a town and comune in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy.

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Geneva Conventions

Original document as PDF in single pages, 1864 The Geneva Conventions comprise four treaties, and three additional protocols, that establish the standards of international law for humanitarian treatment in war.

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Glacier

A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight; it forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation (melting and sublimation) over many years, often centuries.

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Grottoes of Catullus

Grottoes of Catullus is the name given to the ruins of a Roman villa which was built at the end of the 1st century B.C. and the beginning of the 1st century A.D. at the northernmost end of the peninsula of Sirmione on the southern shore of Lake Garda.

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Ice age

An ice age is a period of long-term reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers.

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International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement

The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is an international humanitarian movement with approximately 17 million volunteers, members and staff worldwide which was founded to protect human life and health, to ensure respect for all human beings, and to prevent and alleviate human suffering.

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Isola del Garda

Isola del Garda or Isola di Garda or Isola Borghese is the biggest island on Lake Garda.

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Italian Social Republic

The Italian Social Republic (Repubblica Sociale Italiana,; RSI), informally known as the Republic of Salò (Repubblica di Salò), was a German puppet state with limited recognition that was created during the later part of World War II, existing from the beginning of German occupation of Italy in September 1943 until the surrender of German troops in Italy in May 1945.

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Italian unification

Italian unification (Unità d'Italia), or the Risorgimento (meaning "the Resurgence" or "revival"), was the political and social movement that consolidated different states of the Italian peninsula into the single state of the Kingdom of Italy in the 19th century.

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Italy

Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.

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IUCN Red List

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data List), founded in 1964, has evolved to become the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of biological species.

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Journal of Fish Biology

The Journal of Fish Biology covers all aspects of fish and fisheries biological research, both freshwater and marine.

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Kiteboarding

Kiteboarding is an action sport combining aspects of wakeboarding, snowboarding, windsurfing, surfing, paragliding, skateboarding and sailing into one extreme sport.

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Lago di Ledro

Lago di Ledro is a lake in Trentino, Italy.

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Lake

A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, that is surrounded by land, apart from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake.

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Lazise

Lazise is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Verona in the Italian region Veneto, located about west of Venice and about northwest of Verona.

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Limone sul Garda

Limone sul Garda is a town and comune in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy (northern Italy), on the shore of Lake Garda.

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Lonato del Garda

Lonato del Garda (before 1 July 2007 simply Lonato) is a town and comune in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy, Italy.

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Malcesine

Malcesine is a comune (municipality) on the eastern shore of Lake Garda in the Province of Verona in the Italian region Veneto, located about northwest of Venice and about northwest of Verona.

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Manerba del Garda

Manerba del Garda is a town and comune in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy.

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Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa and on the east by the Levant.

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Milan

Milan (Milano; Milan) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city in Italy after Rome, with the city proper having a population of 1,380,873 while its province-level municipality has a population of 3,235,000.

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Mincio

Mincio (Latin: Mincius, Ancient Greek: Minchios, Μίγχιος) is a river in the Lombardy region of northern Italy.

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Moniga del Garda

Moniga del Garda is a town and comune in the province of Brescia, in the Italian region Lombardy.

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Monte Baldo

Monte Baldo is a mountain range in the Italian Alps, located in the provinces of Trento and Verona.

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Moraine

A moraine is any glacially formed accumulation of unconsolidated glacial debris (regolith and rock) that occurs in both currently and formerly glaciated regions on Earth (i.e. a past glacial maximum), through geomorphological processes.

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Mori-Torbole tunnel

The Mori-Torbole Tunnel (Italian: Galleria Adige-Garda) is a diversion tunnel completed in 1959 between the Italian towns of Mori and Nago-Torbole to connect the Adige river with Lake Garda.

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Nago–Torbole

Nago–Torbole (Naag-Turbel) is a comune (municipality) in Trentino in the northern Italian region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, located about southwest of Trento on the north shore of Lake Garda.

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Napoleon

Napoléon Bonaparte (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a French statesman and military leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the French Revolutionary Wars.

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Naval operations on Lake Garda, 1866

The naval operations on Lake Garda in 1866 during the Third Italian War of Independence consisted of a series of clashes between flotillas of the Kingdom of Italy and the Austrian Empire between 25 June and 25 July that year, as they attempted to secure dominance of the lake.

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Nazism

National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus), more commonly known as Nazism, is the ideology and practices associated with the Nazi Party – officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) – in Nazi Germany, and of other far-right groups with similar aims.

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Olive

The olive, known by the botanical name Olea europaea, meaning "European olive", is a species of small tree in the family Oleaceae, found in the Mediterranean Basin from Portugal to the Levant, the Arabian Peninsula, and southern Asia as far east as China, as well as the Canary Islands and Réunion.

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Padenghe sul Garda

Padenghe sul Garda is a town and comune in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy.

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Paleolithic

The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic is a period in human prehistory distinguished by the original development of stone tools that covers c. 95% of human technological prehistory.

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Peninsula

A peninsula (paeninsula from paene "almost” and insula "island") is a piece of land surrounded by water on the majority of its border, while being connected to a mainland from which it extends.

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Peschiera del Garda

Peschiera del Garda (Venetian: Pischera; Latin: Ardelica, Arilica) is a town and comune in the province of Verona, in Veneto, Italy.

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Province of Brescia

The Province of Brescia is a Province in Lombardy, northern Italy.

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Province of Verona

The Province of Verona (Provincia di Verona) is a province in the Veneto region of Italy.

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Riva del Garda

Riva del Garda is a town and comune in the northern Italian province of Trento of the Trentino Alto Adige region.

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River Ponale

The Ponale is a long river originating in Lake Ledro (Lago di Ledro).

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Roman Republic

The Roman Republic (Res publica Romana) was the era of classical Roman civilization beginning with the overthrow of the Roman Kingdom, traditionally dated to 509 BC, and ending in 27 BC with the establishment of the Roman Empire.

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Sailing

Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the water (sailing ship, sailboat, windsurfer, or kitesurfer), on ice (iceboat) or on land (land yacht) over a chosen course, which is often part of a larger plan of navigation.

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Salò

Salò is a town and comune in the Province of Brescia in the region of Lombardy (northern Italy) on the banks of Lake Garda, on which it has the longest promenade.

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Salmo carpio

Salmo carpio, also known as the carpione (carpione del GardaCrivelli, A.J. 2006. In: IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.1. Downloaded on 2 April 2010 or Lake Garda carpioneS. Melotto, G. Alessio (2006) Journal of Fish Biology 37, 687-698.) is a salmonid fish endemic to Lake Garda in Italy.

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Salmonidae

Salmonidae is a family of ray-finned fish, the only living family currently placed in the order Salmoniformes.

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San Felice del Benaco

San Felice del Benaco is a comune in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy, northern Italy.

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Sarca

The Sarca is a river springing from the Adamello-Presanella mountains in the Italian Alps and flowing into Lake Garda in Northern Italy.

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Scaliger

The noble family of the Scaliger (also Scaligeri, from de Scalis or della Scala) were Lords of Verona.

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Sirmione

Sirmione is a comune in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy (northern Italy).

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Spring (hydrology)

A spring is any natural situation where water flows from an aquifer to the Earth's surface.

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Sulfur

Sulfur or sulphur is a chemical element with symbol S and atomic number 16.

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Tignale

Tignale is a comune in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy, northern Italy.

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Torri del Benaco

Torri del Benaco is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Verona in the Italian region Veneto, located about west of Venice and about northwest of Verona, on the eastern coast of the Lake Garda.

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Toscolano-Maderno

Toscolano Maderno is a town and comune on the West coast of Lake Garda, in the province of Brescia, in the region of Lombardy, northern Italy.

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Tremosine

Tremosine is a comune in the Italian province of Brescia, in Lombardy, near Lake Garda.

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Trentino

Trentino, officially the Autonomous Province of Trento, is an autonomous province of Italy, in the country's far north.

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Venice

Venice (Venezia,; Venesia) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region.

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Verona

Verona (Venetian: Verona or Veròna) is a city on the Adige river in Veneto, Italy, with approximately 257,000 inhabitants and one of the seven provincial capitals of the region.

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Windsurfing

Windsurfing is a surface water sport that combines elements of surfing and sailing.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Zooplankton

Zooplankton are heterotrophic (sometimes detritivorous) plankton.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Garda

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