LAGO DI GARDA / DI GARDA LAKE

EL LAGO DI GARDA / DI GARDA LAKE

*Translation made by Angy Plata

EL LAGO DI GARDA

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Malcesine

Es uno de los pueblos más bellos del Garda, dominado por el monte Baldo y con el agua del lago rozando los restaurantes de sus orillas.

Ruta panorámica entre pueblos balnearios y villas señoriales

En el norte de Italia, justo donde las llanuras alzan la vista hacia los Alpes, se extiende la Región de los Lagos, en la que conviven los escenarios naturales, el legado histórico y la riqueza artística. Cercano a ciudades de visita obligada como Milán, Verona o Trento, el espejo de agua que es el lago de Garda se apodera del espacio y engaña al viajero, haciéndole creer que se trata de un mar tranquilo en la orilla sur, mientras en la norte recuerda más a un fiordo noruego. Además, un microclima suave convierte los alrededores del mayor lago de Italia (370 km2) en un huertojardín donde crecen cultivos meridionales como la vid, el limonero, la palmera y el laurel. De ahí que, desde la época romana hasta el siglo XIX, la aristocracia haya levantado villas al borde de esta laguna lombarda, cuyas orillas también pertenecen a las regiones del Trentino y del Véneto.

La localidad balnearia de Sirmione, situada en el extremo sur del lago, es el lugar de inicio de este recorrido por los 150 kilómetros de la Gardesana, la sinuosa carretera que bordea el lago y regala vistas imponentes; otra opción, aunque más lenta, es viajar en los barcos que unen muchos pueblos.

Sirmione se asienta en una península que culmina en el castillo de la Rocca Scaligera (siglo XIII), rodeado de murallas. Las playas son la otra atracción del lugar, así como las Grutas de Catulo, donde se ven los vestigios de una villa romana en la que se cree que residió el poeta del siglo I a.C. que le da nombre; se conservan estancias, termas y patios, y la posición privilegiada sobre el  lago.

Desde Sirmione solo hay once kilómetros hasta Desenzano, la capital del lago y también su municipio más poblado. Allí es recomendable recorrer las callejuelas del centro histórico y visitar la iglesia de Santa Maria Maddalena (siglo XVI), donde se puede admirar la Última Cena de Tiépolo.

La ruta sigue en ascensión por la orilla oeste, bordeando villas señoriales, casas de labranza y colinas con viñedos. En el camino surgen etapas atractivas como Saló, una localidad ligada a la memoria de Benito Mussolini, aunque hoy brilla más gracias a sus palacios renacentistas. A escasos kilómetros se llega a Gardone Riviera, donde la aristocracia del siglo XIX construyó villas art déco como Il Vittoriale degli Italiani, hoy un museo, o la que ocupa la Fundación André Heller, que muestra un bello jardín botánico.

Se llega ahora a una de las zonas más boscosas del Garda, en la que se proponen muchas rutas senderistas. Allí está Tignale, famoso por su santuario colgado de una colina, y Limone sul Garda, un pueblo de edificios venecianos y perfumado por cítricos.

Así se alcanza Riva del Garda, la localidad más septentrional del lago y una de las más bellas. En ella residió en 1912 el escritor D.H. Lawrence quien, además de encontrar allí la inspiración para varios de sus libros, dejó dicho que «el Garda es hermoso como el principio de la creación». En Riva abundan las mansiones clásicas, los restaurantes situados a orillas del lago y también los excursionistas que la toman como base de rutas hacia los cercanos Alpes.

Se desciende ahora por la orilla este hasta Malcesine, pueblo que el pintor Gustav Klimt inmortalizó en 1913. Se apiña en torno al esbelto castillo Scaligero, que incluye una sala dedicada a Goethe quien lo menciona en su Viaje a Italia (1813). Un teleférico sube al monte Baldo (1.760 m), con una de las mejores vistas sobre el Garda.

El relajante paseo costero pasa cerca de la Punta San Virgilio, uno de los rincones más encantadores del lago, y concluye en Bardolino. Este pueblo constituye, además, una excelente etapa gastronómica para disfrutar de los vinos bardolino, que marinan a la perfección con los quesos de la región del Garda.

MÁS INFORMACIÓN

Cómo llegar y moverse: Desde España se vuela hasta Milán (Lombardía), de donde salen trenes a Sirmione (a 137 km). Verona (Véneto) se halla a 42 km y Trento (Trentino), a 127 km. Lo mejor es alquilar un coche para recorrer libremente la zona.

DI GARDA LAKE

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Malcesine

It is one of the most beautiful towns in Garda, dominated by Mount Baldo and the lake waters near its shores restaurants.

Landscape routes between spa villages and stately villas.

In northern Italy, just where the plains gazing upwards towards the Alps, the Lakes Region spreads, which coexist natural scenery, historical heritage and artistic wealth. Close to cities that must visited as Milan, Verona and Trento, the mirror of water that is Lake Garda takes over the space and deceives the traveler into believing that it is a calm sea on the south shore, while in the north is more reminiscent of a Norwegian fjord. Also, a soft microclimate turns around the largest lake in Italy (370 km2) in a southern garden where they grow crops like grapes, lemon, palm and laurel. Hence, from Roman times to the nineteenth century, the aristocracy has risen villas on the edge of the lagoon Lombard, whose banks also belong to the regions of Trentino and Veneto.

The spa town of Sirmione, located at the southern end of the lake, is the starting point of this journey through the 150 kilometers of the Gardesana, winding road that skirts the lake and gives stunning views; another option, although slower, is to travel on ships that communicate many towns.

Sirmione sits on a peninsula that ends at the castle of Rocca Scaligera (XIII century), surrounded by walls. The beaches are another attraction of the place, as well as the Caves of Catullus, where the remains of a Roman villa in which it is believed that the first century B.C. poet with the same name lived in; rooms, baths and patios are preserved, and the privileged position over the lake.

From Sirmione there are only eleven kilometers to Desenzano, the capital of the lake and also its largest city. There is advisable to walk the streets of the historic center and visit the church of Santa Maria Maddalena (XVI century), where you can admire the Last Supper by Tiepolo.

The route continues to climb up the west bank, along stately villas, farmhouses and hills with vineyards. On the way many attractive stages appears as Saló, a town linked to the memory of Benito Mussolini, even today shines thanks to its Renaissance palaces. A few kilometers you reach Gardone Riviera, where the aristocracy of the nineteenth century art deco villas built Il Vittoriale degli Italiani and today a museum, or occupying the André Heller Foundation, which shows a beautiful botanical garden.

Now, you reach one of the most forested areas of Garda, where many hiking trails are proposed. Here is Tignale, famous for its sanctuary hung on a hill, and Limone sul Garda, a town of Venetians and perfumed by citrus buildings.

That is the way to get to Riva del Garda, the northernmost town of the lake and one of the most beautiful is reached. In 1912 there resided the writer D. H. Lawrence who also found there the inspiration for several of his books, he left said that "the Garda is beautiful as the beginning of creation". In Riva there are a lot of classical mansions, restaurants bordering the lake and also, hikers that take it as a base for routes to the nearby Alps.

It now falls to the east bank Malcesine, village that the painter Gustav Klimt immortalized in 1913. It huddles around the slender Scaligero castle, which includes a room dedicated to Goethe who mentions it in his Voyage to Italy (1813). A cable car goes up Mount Baldo (1,760 m), with one of the best views over the Garda.

The relaxing coastal walk passes near the Punta San Virgilio, one of the most charming corners of the lake, and ends in Bardolino. This town also is an excellent gastronomic stage to enjoy bardolino wines, that marinated perfectly with cheeses Garda region.

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How to getting there and moving around: From Spain you can take a flight to Milan (Lombardy), from where trains depart to Sirmione (137 km). Verona (Veneto) is 42 km away and Trento (Trentino) is 127 km. The best choice is renting a car to explore the area freely.

Lago Di Garda: Problems faced and techniques

TRANSLATION PROBLEMS

*By: Angie Plata

I had many problems translating this text, because most of the time I don’t translate directly a text, I just read and extract the main idea. When explaining to anyone else I use synonyms and try to talk with my own words about the main idea.

The word BALNEARIO really gave me a hard time, because in every dictionary I search for, I found SPA as a meaning, but it does not have sense to me.

Also, there are a lot of colloquial words that I never used, for example by señorial I would use NOBLE but every dictionary I looked for it uses STATELY.

For this activity I used the translation techniques: Direct Translation Techniques and Oblique Translation Techniques.

Dalí Triangle: Problems faced and techniques

1.      Problems faced and techniques applied during the translation process.

Difficult words or phrases:

Zoetrope: optical toy, spinning cylinder

Tramontana: The north wind

Give free rain, unleash or let loose? To translate “dar rienda suelta”

“the climax of that exhibitionism” replaced “la culminación de aquel exhibicionismo llegó en su madurez…

“Furniture weaning food” or “furniture food weaning” or “food furniture weaning” to translate “El destete del mueble alimento” (I am not sure)

2.      Techniques applied

I used and combine different kind of techniques in order to keep the sense of the text.

Examples:

Literal translation

La pétrea orografía de la Costa Brava entre Cadaqués y el Parque Natural del Cap de Creus: The stony terrain of the Costa Brava between Cadaques and the Natural Park of Cap de Creus

Transposition

La ruta del maestro ampurdanés sigue…: The Ampurdanés Master’s route continues…

Reformulation or equivalence

“the climax of that exhibitionism” for “la culminación de aquel exhibicionismo llegó en su madurez…

DALI TRIANGLE

DALÍ TRIANGLE

*By: Catalina Arenas

Landscapes that inspired life and work of this Gerundense artist.

Few artists have had so much connection and fascination for their homeland as Salvador Dalí with the Empordá. He also recognized that the “tramontana” or the north wind, the wind that often lashes this Catalan region, was responsible for his “complete madness”. In the Empordá he was born, lived, created and died. And in this corner of the province of Girona, much of his legacy is exhibited in places that witnessed his life and were scenarios for his inspiration.

To understand Dalí, it is necessary to visit Figueres, the city where he was born and where the young Salvador would spend his youth. He came into the world in 1904 at number 6 of the Monturiol Street, street that, years later, he called with the nickname “street of the geniuses”. Dali was baptized in the church of San Pere, located in the eponymous street, two blocks from his birth home. In the same road is located the Toy Museum of Cataluña where among porcelain dolls, brass cars and zoetropes, there is an exhibition dedicated to the infant Dalí with many family photos and the inseparable teddy bear of the artist: the Marquina bear.

Near the museum is La Rambla, in whose central cafés was the young Dalí spending hours drawing life around. Years later, in one of them, the Emporium coffee, he wrote with Luis Buñuel the script of the film Un Chien Andalou (1929).

When Dalí was young, he made a constant performance of his life and he was never tired of giving free rein to eccentricity. However, the climax of that exhibitionism came with the Theatre of Figueres restructuring and modernization, under his direction, to make it the current Teather-Museum Dalí, in his words: “A true surrealistic object”.

The museum shows a single number of works and times of the artist and includes some of his most acclaimed paintings including:  Self-portrait with fried bacon (1941) and Galatea of the spheres paintings (1952) as well as sculptures, ceramics, prints, photographs, holograms and the extraordinary collection of jewelry designed between 1941 and 1970.

During the teen years of the artist, the Dalí family spent the summer on the Costa Brava, in the picturesque village of Cadaques (35 km). There Salvador had his first painting studio in a fisherman's house next to Port Alghero. In the years he spent in this place was visited by great friends like Garcia Lorca and Buñuel. In this place he met the love of his life, Helena Ivanovna-the world's known as Galatia, who stayed in the Miramar Hotel, actually known as the residence, to spend the summer of 1929.

Dalí paintings reflected in the landscapes he admired so much. The stony terrain of the Costa Brava between Cadaques and the Natural Park of Cap de Creus is found in such works as Girl at the Window (1925) The Spectre of Sex Appeal (1932) or furniture Weaning food (1934). Other no landscape features also became part of the Dalinian universe. Espardenyes for example, the traditional footwear of the region contained in some of his sculptures, jugs and breads pagès that used to introduce into their creations as an allegory of "art as food."

The Ampurdanés Master’s route continues in the fishing village of Portlligat –two kilometers far away of Cadaqués- where Dali and Gala moved in 1949 after his retirement in New York. His house, now converted into a museum, again shows that Dali Surrealism embodied not only in his works, but also in his life. The labyrinthine architecture, the crowded rooms and a kitsch decor, including desiccated polar bear were the love nest and the creative workshop of the couple for more than three decades. Portlligat House Museum just opened a new exhibition space, the Tower Pots, where Dali used to work on their ceramics and sculptures.

From the couple’s fishing house in Portlligat is now continuing into the Empordà to meet other enclaves of the Route Dali. A fifty kilometers we reach the Santuari dels Angels, high on a hill surrounded by pine trees. There, betraying his exhibitionism, Gala and Dalí were married in secret and in the strictest privacy in 1958.

Decades later, the artist's wife wanted to retire from public life so the couple took Pubol Castle, 10 km from the sanctuary, where Gala would move on her 76th birthday. She took care of decorating with a look that reminded her aristocratic Russian origin. The muse of the genius died in 1982 and, after being embalmed, she was buried in the crypt of the castle, dressed in an elegant red Dior dress. Just next, there was another crypt initially conceived to bury Dalí. But it was empty, as the Ampurdanés genius decided, at the end of his days, to rest eternally in the museum of his native Figueres and built a mausoleum in one of the rooms where he was buried in 1989.