Borghetto sul Mincio

Borghetto is undoubtedly Valeggio sul Mincio’s best-known hamlet for its history, landscape and its monuments - which make this place so interesting that it has recently been included in the Club of the "Most Beautiful Villages in Italy". This small village, built in harmony with the River Mincio and characterised by historic fortifications dating back to the medieval ages, owes its charm to the balanced relationship that history and nature have preserved almost intact over the centuries and today represents a unique village to be visited at least once in a lifetime. The oldest part of the village still keeps the characteristic appearance of a "medieval village", with the bell tower, the wheels of the water mills (once used for milling wheat and cereals) and the fortresses of the Ponte Visconteo (Visconti Bridge), an extraordinary fortified dam built in 1393 at the behest of Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan, to ensure the impenetrability of the eastern borders of the duchy.