Casa Sophia Portese

To know before your booking:

The guest has to pay a tourist tax of € 1 per day, per guest aged 16 or over. This figure is not included in the price and should be paid directly to the host.
Laundry and cleaning service: €80
Heating if needed: € 10per day
Is required a deposit of € 200, to be paid on site and will be refunded upon departure.
Our guests will be provided with linen, towels, complimentary toiletries and WI-FI.

The apartment is located on the ground floor and is compose as follow: entrance into the living room with sofa, fully equipped kitchenette, double bedroom, bedroom with single bed and cot, bathroom with shower and exclusive garden in common with the owner, barbecue, sun loungers and outdoor table for lunch or dinner in peace.
At your disposal a unattended parking space in the street.

Casa Sophia is a wonderful apartment located in Portese, a village of San Felice del Benaco, which is 10 minutes walk from the port of Portese, where you can access the Ferry boat service, which take you to most of the lake side city of Lake Garda. In 15 minutes from the beaches. 10 minutes by car from salò where you can find restaurants, bars and shopping

The house, being located in a strategic point, allows our customers to live their holidays in total relax and forgetting about the car.
The charming apartment is ideal for families with children, but also for those who want to enjoy the charm of our Lake.
The accommodation is available both in summer and in winter, being equipped with heating.

How to get to San felice d/B.
-By car: From highway A4 Milan-Venice, tollgate of Desenzano and follow the directions to San felice del Benaco and Salò.
-By train and bus: The nearest railway station is Desenzano, just few kms from San felice d/b where you can get to it by bus.
-by plane: Bergamo airport (84km), Verona Airport (40km), Milano Linate airport (120km)

San Felice was built on a headland on Lake Garda, in the municipality of San felice del Benaco. It is divided in 3 ancient parts: S.Felice, Portese and Cisano.
SAN FELICE HISTORICAL CENTER
The country of St. Felice, preserve in the historical centre the rests of the ancient Castle, the Building Rotingo, built in the XVII century, now centre of the Town hall.
The walk through the centre makes us discover the ex-Mountain Pity of St. Felice, an elegant construction type Venetian, with a with a porch with five arches with square pillars of rusticated stones, The magnificent palace was therefore the seat of the local authority for more than three hundred years until, in 1993,when the seat of the Town Hall was moved to the Rotingo Palace. Now it’s the centre of the Office Information and of a Room of exhibition that entertains lots of shows of contemporary artists.
Parish Church:
Dedicated to the patron saints of the country Saints Felice, Saint Adauto and S.Flavia, whose, the Church house has a valuable Altar painted by the Romanesque
The Baroque Main Church, devoted to the Martyrs S Felice S. Adauto and S.Flavia, is located in the centre of the suburb and it contains valuable works of art, like the Altarpiece of the Romanino, which preserves relics of the Martyrs, for this it is worth a visit.
Just out of the historical centre of St. Felice of the Benaco there is The Sanctuary of the Madonna del Carmine in San Felice on Lake Garda, dating back to the fifteenth century, is in the simple rustic shape characteristic of the last stage of Lombard Gothic architecture, strongly linked to the Romanesque tradition.
The tradition, perhaps mixed with the legend, tells that it was the local fishermen who, with the construction of the church, expressed their gratitude to the Virgin for having so many times saved them from the sudden storms that erupt on the lake and to beg, also for the future, help and protection.
PORTESE
Not to be missed in Portese, near San Felice, its Port and the adjacent beach.
For this it is center of a very active Nautical Circle that promotes various manifestations between which the "Trophy of the Exposition", "He and she" and the great summery initiative "Trans benaco cruise race".
Also worth seeing is the Castle erected in the high Middle Ages to defend the raids of the barbarians, of which there is only a circular tower butt.
On the nearby promontory of San Fermo, in front of the Garda Island, there is the 'church of the same name of the fifteenth century that offers a very suggestive and panoramic image of Lake Garda from above.
CISANO
The small part of Cisano is found on a hill from which the enchanting landscape of the gulf of Salò.
Its name seems you derive from "Caesius" or from the Latin lower part "Caesa" (cut Wood). Walking among the streets of the historical centre, recently restructured, you are dipped in a calm atmosphere where the time seems to have stopped to when the cows returned from the pasture and they stopped him to the fountain of the square. You have also to visit the enchanting church of Cisano.
All the zones around St. Felice are so beautiful that in the past time this earth was earned the name of Sinus Felix, or: happy inlet.
During the summer season, that starts in May in some years, till September, baths of sun can be done over in the transparent and clean waters of the lake, trips in boat, calm you pedal on the green cycle footsteps, to see the various antiquing, to have a good time him to the master parties and to the events that every year is organized for tourists.
The Lake Garda, with its microclimate that allows the Mediterranean culture of the lemons and the oil you, it makes the least sultry summers and you ventilate, while the winters are maintained myths.
A wonderful Trip on the Island of Garda .
During your holiday on the Lake of Garda, particularly if spent to St. Felice of the Benaco, not to lose it is a trip to the Island of the Garda. The island of the Garda is found alone 600 meters away from the shore, green with a building that hacks him in the blue one of the sky! It is a' Island flood of history, histories and legends that it has generally welcomed the visitors since April in October, with private services of boats and driven visits.
The nearer point of Departure to reach the island of the Garda is the dock of the I Bring of St. Felice; to know the schedules to verify on the site of the island of the Garda.