Photography: Sunday Walk Arco (TN) Italy

Today, we’ll just take a stroll from the entrance of Arco (TN) halfway up to the Castle below.

I parked my bike outside of Arco near an old hotel. When I first arrived it was a beautiful little hotel freshly refurbished with a swimming pool that looked onto the river…alas the proprietor passed away and the heirs never got their act together, now it’s falling to pieces!

I went towards the bridge…we used to have traffic lights just before entering the bridge but now we have a roundabout! I really should take you on a walk around the roundabouts…in Arco we now have about 8 give or take…

We’re now in the beginning of Via Segatini, the entrance to Medieval Arco…and we start to climb!

The town in the far off background is Bolognano, where I live!

Midway to the Castle we see the valley that runs into the lake, hidden from view by Monte Brione…the church is the Center of Medieval Arco. There’s a nice bench here. A couple of German’s who were also following asked me if it was always so steep to the top…well, I told them it leveled out a bit then straight up…the worst part is actually the entrance to the Castle, but that will be another trip when we do the Castle by itself.

Ah…there’s the roundabout!

This was a hotel in far worse condition than Hotel Arco…last winter they did a complete restructuring…it’s really very nice now, so, who knows maybe Hotel Arco will be remodelled and put back into service one day!