"Vittoriale degli Italiani", which can be translated as the Temple of the Italian victories - this is a huge estate, spread out on a hillside in the town of Gardone Riviera on Lake Garda. It was here in 1922 lived a famous Italian writer Gabriele D'Annunzio - until his death in 1938. Vittoriale monumental citadel called fascist or amusement park - in any case, this place is surrounded by the same aura of scandal as the name of its creator.

The estate consists of the residence of D'Annunzio, which bears the name of the Priori, the amphitheater, the light cruiser "Puglia", set directly on the hill, slipway for boats with class destroyer MAS, which in 1918 used a writer and an arcuate mausoleum. The whole area "Vittoriale degli Italiani" is included in the list of "Great Gardens of Italy".

The house - Villa Karnyakko - once belonged to a German art historian, and then together with a collection of old books and a piano, which was playing great Franz Liszt, it was confiscated by the Italian government. In 1921, Gabriele D'Annunzio villa rented for a year and restored it with the help of the architect Giancarlo Maroni. Due to the popularity of the writer and his opposition to the fascist government of Italy, in particular on the question of an alliance with Nazi Germany, the Nazis were doing everything they could to cater to D'Annunzio and keep it away from Rome. In 1924, the estate brought the airplane in which the writer was flying over Vienna during the First World War, scattering pamphlets of his own, a year later - the destroyer MAS, with which Gabriele teased the Austrians in 1918 during the same war. Then in Vittoriale appeared light cruiser "Puglia", which is established on a hill in the woods behind the house.

In 1926, the Italian government has donated 10 million lire, which lasted for a significant expansion of the territory of the estate - in particular, a new wing was built villa, called Skyafamondo. In 1931, construction began on Parladdzhio - amphitheater, which offers superb views of Lake Garda. The mausoleum was designed by the same after the death of D'Annunzio and built according to the canons of Nazi architecture only in 1955. This is where the buried remains of the great Italian.