Riva del Garda
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Riva del Garda is a town and comune in the northern Italian province of Trento of the Trentino Alto Adige region. It is also known simply as Riva and is located at the northern tip of Lake Garda.
Riva del Garda seen from the north
The harbour by Michael Zeno Diemer (c. 1902)
A panoramic image of the Riva del Garda's lakefront
Torre Apponale tower and city
Kurt Schuschnigg
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Kurt Alois Josef Johann von Schuschnigg was a Slovene-Austrian politician who was the Chancellor of the Federal State of Austria from the 1934 assassination of his predecessor Engelbert Dollfuss until
Riva del Garda
…railway line, opened in 1891. However, the railway line closed in 1936 and the railway terminus has been converted into a restaurant. Austrian statesman Kurt Schuschnigg was born in the town in 1897 and was of Carinthian Slovene descent. Riva del Garda is located at the north-western corner of Lake Garda, approximately…
Schuschnigg in 1936
Schuschnigg, 1923
Chancellor Schuschnigg (right) with his state secretary Guido Schmidt and the Italian foreign minister Galeazzo Ciano, 1936
Anti-Anschluss posters often depicted Schuschnigg's face, accompanied by "Österreich"