 Goethe arrived here from Rovereto in the afternoon of 12 September 1786, four days after having crossed Brenner Pass.Goethe was 37 years old and upon seeing the blue expanse of Lake Garda and the silver olive-groves, he experienced for the first time the atmosphere and mild climate of the places extolled by the Classics, and he wrote that he had achieved happiness.The Brescian Cesare Arici, idyllic rural poet, exalted the "fishy Torbole".