Place as the starting point of the route Gargagnago, hamlet of Sant'Ambrogio di Valpolicella.

Passing in front of the parish church of Santa Maria della Misericordia (1378), which owes its neoclassical aspect to Bartolomeo Giuliari (1820), you will notice a strong resemblance to the Venetian Palladian villas.

Once the car is back, after several hairpin bends you will reach San Giorgio di Valpolicella.

This small village can also be reached on foot in about 45 minutes (one way) through a path that, detaching from the main road not far from the church of Gargagnago, runs through the wooded vajo Ragnino up to almost 400 m in height of the village.

San Giorgio di Valpolicella or Ingannapolton is a real terrace on the Veronese territory, from which you can have a view that sweeps from Valpolicella to the surrounding areas to the southern part of Lake Garda.

The nickname Ingannapolton traditionally refers to the fact that it "deceives the armchairs", because its top position deludes those who are approaching along the road from having almost reached their destination.

The country is home to the beautiful Pieve Early Medieval (existing since the eighth century, as evidenced by the inscription on the columns of the ciborium above the altar) made of local stone, with a monumental bell tower and a lovely cloister: archaeological excavations have documented the existence in this area of a prehistoric town and a Roman sanctuary.

In the neighbor Antiquarium the epigraphic finds of the Arùsnates are preserved, a population of probable Etruscan origin who had maintained their own divinities and cult traditions even after the arrival of the Romans.

After the visit, pausing to observe the panorama, you will notice both the wine vocation of the area (producer of Valpolicella Classico DOC, Amarone della Valpolicella and Recioto Classico DOC), and the marble one with the signs of quarries for the extraction of Veronese limestones and industrial plants for processing marble from all over the world.

San Giorgio is also famous for the folk festival Festa delle Fae (local term meaning broad beans), which takes place on the second Sunday of November, in which each householder in the village receives a portion of a soup prepared with these legumes, along with onions, potatoes , lard and flour.

If you wish to visit the immediate surroundings of the town on foot, you can follow the indications of the nature trails on the panels displayed, according to the different difficulties and travel times.

A proposal of a long but interesting walk (2 hours round trip), on the eastern side of Monte Solane, leads to the town of Mazzurega, which gave birth to the poet Bartolomeo Lorenzi and to his brother Francesco, painter pupil of the most famous Giambattista Tiepolo, but it is also the homeland of the family of Antonio Badile, master of Paolo Veronese.

If you have left your car in San Giorgio it is advisable to return to the parking lot.

If instead you left the car in Gargagnago (3 hours round trip), after leaving the village, after about 1 km you will find a dirt road that leads to an old abandoned house and then deviates to the left, thus reaching the Cavarena di Sotto locality , quarry area.

Crossing a pine forest we stop at Ca 'Fontanelle, where there is a natural source of water.

You will then close the ring going down again to Gargagnago: here you can see examples of local architecture with barns and courtyards whose accesses were always closed by arches.