Lakeside Redevelopment Plans Including Lemon House and Pier Revitalization

A lemon house on the lakeshore. According to Lucio Donatini, designer of the landscaping project for the D’Annunzio lakeside promenade, a portion of land unfairly confined for years in a sort of ghetto should be restored to a proper use that matches the beauty of the surroundings.

The lemon house would excellently solve the issue of elevation difference between the ongoing promenade building, the green areas, and the street level open to traffic—be it tourist or local—for Limone and the Brescia shore.

Interventions on the lakeside improvement

In the immediate future, the intervention will continue with the lowering of a couple of meters of debris from the tunnel, dumped between the power plant’s outlet and the temporary Navigarda mooring. Correspondingly, it is planned to widen the pedestrian passage with a cantilevered canopy over the lake, one meter wide: to a total usable width of about 3 meters.

The pier will be relocated: the current environmental impact is completely unsustainable. The plan is to build a new dock just south of the Casa Rossa, of adequate size relative to its use.

It will exclusively serve for crew disembarkation and embarkation, excluding passengers. The arrangement will be carried out over medium to long term, especially considering that in November work on the Gardesana will resume, involving the construction of two additional windows and approximately 300 meters of tunnel connecting the new tunnel with the old Gardesana.

The materials will be used to complete the main square, extending south from the Enel outlets, protected by a pier 15-20 meters long. It is also possible to extend, via a bridge, towards the ferry boarding pier, which in an ideal solution should be located elsewhere.

Location and additional arrangements

The lemon house, built according to traditional practices used for centuries along the Garda shores, would be approximately where the connecting staircase was located. For the state road, a green area is planned towards the mountain, followed by a lane for car traffic, then a strip of green, and finally, cantilevered over the lake, the pedestrian promenade.

It is impossible to widen north of the switchyard: the shore angles almost vertically downward.