Limone is the first village on western lakeshore, to the Lombardia region. The city of former fisher's counts approximately 1000 inhabitants. Limone, which means lemon, does not carry its name for the wide spread citrus culture exercised since the last century but from the Latin word lime meaning border, because the village lies approached the former Italian-Austrian border which wounds along the Ponale road.
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Up to the end of the First World War this border held the same in such a way the separation from Limone and Riva del Garda, but, at the same time favouring on the one hand the exchange of the goods and the slave exchanges on the other one. The old part of town, which was for a long time recruited both by the city of Brescia and the results of Arco, was role of the goods of the Visconti family of Milan in 15th century, before it became a part of the Venetian Republic.
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