The stone terrace wall in the bottom corner sets the viewpoint: Malcesine seen from above the old town, with the Scaliger castle tower ahead and the blue of Lake Garda opening out to the right. An original vintage-style travel poster of the old town, printed to order and delivered in a black wood frame — ready to hang the day it arrives, and an easy gift for anyone who has walked those lanes.
The design is drawn flat — an elevated view from a stone terrace wall in the bottom-left corner, over a cascade of terracotta rooftops and coral, ochre and cream lakefront houses stepping down to a small quay with wooden mooring posts, up to the crenellated cream tower of the Scaliger castle with dark cypresses at its foot. The deep blue lake fills the right half with a sunlit sparkle path and a single wooden rowboat at the bottom, hazy mauve-tan mountains lining the far shore under a pale sky. MALCESINE sits top-left in tall red capitals above LAGO DI GARDA between short rules and VENETO • ITALIA beneath, while a pink bougainvillea in full bloom spills down the right-hand side from the top-right corner — worked in deep lake blue, terracotta, coral, cream, bougainvillea pink and cypress green. It is printed on 189 g/m² heavyweight matte art paper, 10.3 mil thick — an uncoated stock that keeps the flat colour edges crisp without a hint of glare — and arrives framed in slim black ayous wood behind an acrylite front protector, with the hanging hardware already fitted.
- Sizes: 14″ × 14″, 16″ × 16″ and 18"x 18" portrait, supplied framed in black
- Paper: 189 g/m2 heavyweight matte art paper, 10.3 mil (0.26 mm) thick, milled in Japan — uncoated, so no glare
- Frame: 0.75″ (1.9 cm) black ayous wood from renewable forests
- Front: acrylite protector in place of glass — lighter, and it does not shatter in transit
- Hanging hardware included — arrives ready to hang, no assembly
Size chart
| Framed size | Art panel | Works well |
|---|---|---|
| 14" × 14" framed | 14 × 14 in | desk nooks, hallways, gallery walls, small spaces, gifting |
| 16" × 16" framed | 16 × 16 in (fills the frame) | above a sofa, a bed head or a console |
| 18" × 18" framed | 18 × 18 in | above a sofa, bed, or console, living rooms, statement walls |
The square illustration is centred behind the acrylite front with an even paper margin above and below, so the frame reads clean without a mat. Framed pieces ship flat and boxed, and travel separately from any rolled posters in the same order.
Quick answers
Does it come framed, and in what sizes?
Yes — 14″ × 14″, 16″ × 16″, or 18″ × 18″ in portrait in a black ayous wood frame, 0.75″ (1.9 cm) thick, with an acrylite front protector and the hanging hardware already fitted. It arrives ready to hang.
Which size should I choose?
Is this a reprint of a vintage original?
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.
What is the castle tower in the picture?
It is the Castello Scaligero, Malcesine's medieval castle, whose tower rises above the old town on the eastern shore of Lake Garda. The castle takes its name from the Scaliger family of Verona, who held it in the 13th and 14th centuries, and Goethe famously sketched it on his Italian journey in 1786.
Malcesine from the terrace — castle, rooftops and bougainvillea.
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