The most famous section of the “Gardesana Occidentale”, as the State Road 45 between Brescia (Lombardy) and Trento (Trentino) is known, is the part between Gargnano and Riva del Garda on Lake Garda. Built in the 1930s, it was the first time many towns on the western shore of the lake were directly connected by road. It is a remarkable achievement how engineers and construction workers created a road along the steep rock faces: narrow, winding and with many tunnels and galleries blasted into the rock. Today, many admire and describe it as a “dream road”. Read more