But Italy's largest and eastern-most lake is actually shaped more like a banjo, 52 km (32 miles) from the ruggedly romantic cliffs of the neck down to its broad sound box, 18 km (11 miles) acrose surrounded by rolling green hills and gardens.
Italy's biggest lake is shaped like a musical instrument.
The rooms are still decorated and furnished with the Baroque pomp of the 17th and 18th centuries and reconstructed following Allied bomb damage in 1943.