Luxury Home with Lake Views

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GARGNANO, LAKE GARDA, LAKE GARDA BUILDING. In the center of Gargnano, we offer a building to renovate, located directly on the lake. High residential construction potential. Confidential negotiations. HISTORY. To ensure the best marketing of Garda citrus fruits, the owners of lemon groves joined together under the direction of Giuseppe Pederzani, and in 1840 the Società Lago di Garda was founded in Gargnano—the center of Garda citrus growing—with headquarters in some of the rooms of the former convent of San Francesco. On the lakeside, adjacent to the former convent, a room for sorting lemons was built: a large square room, with a roof supported by elegant cast iron columns and featuring a striking lakeside façade with a unique sequence of glass arches. The company's peak production years were between 1840 and 1860, with approximately 125 million lemons delivered in total, peaking at 9.7 million in 1852 (of which 7 million came from the Gargnano lemon groves alone), compared to an average annual production of 6-7 million (4-5 million from Gargnano). At the same time as the company's decline in lemon harvesting and marketing, due to the crisis in citrus growing, it began to expand into the production of laurel oil and then olive oil. In 1879, a factory was built, equipped with six large direct-fired boilers, for the extraction of laurel oil, which was highly sought after for pharmaceutical and cosmetic purposes. A dedicated building was then constructed on the lakeside for the production of olive oil, next to the characteristic lemon sorting room. Olive oil production became the Company's primary and most profitable activity until the late 1980s, when all activities were suspended. The buildings that comprise the Company's headquarters are currently unused and awaiting restoration and redevelopment.