Sirmione isn't merely a quaint Italian town on the southern shore of Lake Garda. But it's a historically and geographically significant place, thanks to its location on the border of Lombardy and Veneto provinces and because it's on a narrow, long peninsula that juts into the lake. Over the centuries, Sirmione has drawn everyone from intellectuals to nobles including the appreciation of the poet Catullus and the opera diva Maria Callas.
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