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Soave

Sunday 29th September 2024.

Day 16.

Today we drove down most of the eastern side of Lake Garda, slow going.Thankfully the roads weren’t as narrow as some we have endured over the past three days, Michelle took some photos as we drove along as again stopping regularly to take photos wasn’t easy. Today being sunny and a Sunday everyone was heading for the lake, there were scooter clubs, motorbike clubs, vintage car clubs along with hundreds of day trippers heading towards the lake. Thankfully after a while we cleared the lake and as we were driving away our side of the road became much quieter.

A narrow section.

The site we were on last night and in the fields alongside the road are full olive trees laden with olives and we did see at least one outlet selling extra virgin olive oil.

Our target for today was to reach Soave a much shorter journey thankfully. I’d heard of Soave wine but didn’t know of its origin, but of course I do now as it is made from grapes from this region.

Grapes hanging above one of the gateway entrances to town.

Soave is a walled town with its walls and entrances still in existence, high above is a castle which Alison and Peter visited, we walked up to the castle but didn’t wait for it to open, I was just extremely pleased I had the ability to climb up to its high perch after the last 16 months feeling weak.

You could walk on part of the walls.
We found these flight of steps leading upwards out of a park and used them to reach the castle.
View across the town.

As we walked into a town we came across a row of Harley Davidson motorbikes parked up.

Through a gateway in the above wall you could hear music and the babble of many voices.

In an area elevated above the road were long trestle tables with benches, the bikers plus others were eating there and drinks could be bought from a bar.
We saw this menu outside a bar/ cafe but weren’t too sure of the horse meat stew.

We did take a refreshing cold drink in a bar at the bottom of the town before heading back to Homer.

Entrance gateway with the grapes.
Not sure who he is or why he is doing a leap frog.
Michelle went in this church and was impressed.

The arch priest church of Soave was built in 1744 on the site of where in 1303 a primitive church was built., it was enlarged in 1883. The entrance steps are marble, it has a single nave with side alters of Baroque style rich in marble with valuable paintings. There are paintings throughout the church and there is a large fresco on the ceiling of the nave.

Not long after we got back we could hear what seemed like loud cheering from a number of people, when we looked across the road we could see a large gathering of people who were taking part in a keep fit session, dancing and performing other exercises.

They were there for approximately 30 mins and then they moved to a sports field behind us where they continued to exercise for another 30 minutes. It wore me out watching😂😂😂

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