This one climbs above Limone sul Garda, looking down across a jumble of terracotta roofs and blue shutters to the slender domed bell tower, with two oversized lemons hanging in from a leafy branch overhead. An original vintage-style travel poster, drawn flat as Italy wall art with the lake laid out deep blue behind the rooftops.
The design is drawn flat from an elevated viewpoint over the town — a dense cluster of cream and white stucco houses with blue shutters, orange-tiled roofs and blue-capped chimneys, a few dark cypresses between them, rising to a slender cream bell tower with a domed cap at centre-right. Beyond the roofs the lake sits as a plane of deep blue broken by white ripple lines, with a hazy blue mountain ridge on the right under a clear pale sky. A lemon branch with dark green leaves and two oversized bright-yellow lemons overhangs the top-left, while the lettering is stacked in the top-right sky: LIMONE in tall cream capitals, then SUL GARDA flanked by two short mustard-yellow dashes, then LAGO DI GARDA · ITALIA in blue — the whole panel worked in terracotta orange, deep lake blue, cream, lemon yellow, olive green and pale sky blue. Printed to order on heavyweight matte art paper with a smooth, uncoated surface that keeps those hard colour edges crisp and readable from across the room. No glare, no plastic sheen, no photograph: just paper and ink.
- Paper: 189 g/m2 (10.3 mil) heavyweight matte art stock — substantial enough to hang unframed without curling
- Finish: uncoated matte — no glare under lamps, windows or gallery lighting
- Opacity: 94%, so a wall colour or a second sheet behind it never shows through
- Brightness: 104% ISO — a bright white base that keeps the flat colour blocks saturated
- Origin: paper milled in Japan; every poster is printed to order, never warehoused
Size chart
| Poster size | Art panel (centered) | Works well |
|---|---|---|
| 14"" × 14"" | 14 × 14 in | desk shelves, small nooks, gallery-wall filler |
| 16"" × 16"" | 16 × 16 in | bedrooms, home offices, above a console or sofa |
| 18"" × 18"" | 18 × 18 in | living rooms, stairwells, a single statement wall |
The illustration is a square panel centred on the sheet with a clean margin above and below, so it sits well in an off-the-shelf frame with or without a mat. Ships rolled in a protective tube, unframed.
Quick answers
Which size should I order? The 14″ × 14″ is the safe default for most walls. Take the 16″ × 16″ for a desk, a shelf or as part of a gallery cluster, and the 18″ × 18″ when the poster is meant to be the focal point of the room.
Does it come framed? No — it ships rolled and unframed in a protective tube. All three sizes are standard US frame sizes, so a shop-bought frame fits without a custom mat. A ready-to-hang framed version of this design is listed separately.
Is this a reprint of an old travel poster? No. It is an original illustration drawn in the mid-century travel-poster tradition — flat colour, clean edges, bold lettering — and a new composition made for RaZits. It is not a scan of a historic print.
Is Limone sul Garda really named after lemons? Probably not — the name is usually traced either to the Latin limen, meaning border, as the town sat on an old frontier, or to an old Celtic word for elm. But it did become famous for its limonaie, the stone-pillared lemon houses that made this west shore of Lake Garda one of the northernmost places in Europe to grow lemons commercially; the restored Limonaia del Castèl is open to visitors today.
Lake Garda from the rooftops, with the lemons hung where they belong.
