The small town of Salò, in the province of Brescia, sits on the bank of the Garda lake on which it has the longest promenade of all. Salò's recorded history starts with the founding by ancient Romans of the colony of Pagus Salodium. Nowadays there are numerous ruins of the Roman settlement, as shown by the Lugone necropolis in via Sant’Jago and the numerous findings in the Civic Archaeological Museum located at the Loggia della Magnifica Patria. In the middle ages, after a short protectorate under the rule of Venice (from 1336 to 1349), Salò became a stronghold of the Milanese Visconti family for almost a century, before joining the Venetian Republic for the next three centuries. The San Marco lion can be seen today on the Porta di San Giovanni. At the end of the Venetian republic, Salò became part of the Cisalpine Republic and then the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy, the Austrian Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia and finally the Republic of Italy in 1860. Salò has been the place of birth of some notable italians, including Gasparo da Salò, one of the earliest if not the first violin maker of history.
The small town of Salò, in the province of Brescia,