Desenzano del Garda

Decentius, from whom came the name Desenzano, was probably the owner of a big farm which had at its centre the big Roman Villa (IV cent. BC – IV cent. AD); it came to light in 1921.
Other findings from the Roman era are preserved in the Archeological Museum Giovanni Rambotti, housed in the 1400s cloister of the ex-church of Santa Maria in Senioribus (at the west end of the lake promenade). The Sarcophagus of Atilia Urbica is noteworthy. The most ancient wooden plough ever found can be seen here (2000 BC).
The heart of Desenzanopulsates in Piazza Malvezzi which, with its colannades, faces the small port and is flanked by the ex-Palazzo Comunale (Town Hall) and the Plazzo del Provveditore, designed in the second half of the XVI century by the architect Giulio Todeschini. Not far from, at San Martino della Battaglia, stands out the tower built as a memorial of the historical 1859 battle of the Italian Rinascimento.