Castelnuovo del Garda
From few archaeological rests found on the top of the main hill (called monte Alto), probably Castelnuovo del Garda was already inhabited during the prehistorical age.Consequentially rebuilt as a fortify town, Quadrivium was renamed Castrum Novum (which means New Castle), and the name has remained unchanged with the Italian version Castelnuovo.On 11 April 1848 Castelnuovo del Garda was almost totally destroyed and burned (including the church and the medieval tower) by the Austrian empire army, during the first Italian independence war.That day, 400 men of the Corpo Volontari Lombardi [it] fought against 3,000 Austrian soldiers, which consequentially burned the city, killing around 89 local citizens (46 of them women and children) as reprisal for the revolutionary actions that were taking place in the region.[4][5][circular reference] The Austrian army was headed by the field marshal Joseph Radetzky, who was serving in Verona, and the commander Whillerm Thurn.