La Piazza

The town square was born in the Venetian era as a space intended to support the various port activities. The road to Nago opened in 1763. At the entrance of the road a plaque recalls the passage to Torbole of Emperor Joseph II, correcting with his mother Maria Theresa, occurred in 1765, here arrived during his visit to inspect the territory of southern Trentino ruled by Vienna.

In April 1784, when twenty years of famine were coming to an end, the community council decided to obtain from the porch of the fountain, which was paved with stones still visible today, a deposit for grains, especially corn, that came from the fertile Po plain (it was in those years that the habit of using yellow flour to make polenta spread).

The square overlooks the building, radically modified during the nineteenth century, which hosted Goethe in 1786 as recalled by the plaque above the fountain in the square In the same building lived and died the Berlin painter Hans Lietzmann (Berlin, 1872 – Torbole, 1955). In the square, on the night of 29/30 April 1945 there was a bloody clash between American and German soldiers who, supported by three tanks, were retreating towards Nago.