This ancient fishing village, which sits on a characteristic cone-shaped hill where Monte Baldo gently slopes towards S.Vigilio Point, is quite charming with its small port, square, narrow streets and old buildings painted in the same warm shades of Venice. Surrounded by olive groves are new homes, camping sites, tourist resorts and hotels that provide fine accommodations all year round. A ferry service for cars, busses and passengers that unites Torri del Benaco and Toscolano Maderno (on the west shore in the province of Brescia) is available all year round.

At one time it was the center of trade in the town of Torri del Benaco: cargo ships traveling between Desenzano del Garda and Riva del Garda and "bisse", typical fishing boats of Lake Garda, used to dock there. On the northern end of the port sits the 15th century "Palazzo della Gardesana", the seat of the "Gardasana dell'Acqua" council, a federation of ten communities that also had the task of suppressing and controlling smuggling on the lake garda during Venetian rule.
The council chapel in the nearby S.S. Trinità Church still conserves 14th - 15th century frescoes of the Veronese School. Beneath the porticos, caulkers built and repaired boats. The vaguely shell-shaped quay is considered to be from the Roman period.

Built at the beginning of the 18th century upon the ruins of another church, the parish has many Baroque style marble altars. There are valuable altar pieces by Cignaroli, Rotari and Brentana. The statues inside are by Michelangelo Speranza. The impressive organ was built in 1745 by Angelo Bonatti of Desenzano del Garda.

The castle was commissioned in 1383 by Antonio della Scala, the last lord of the Della Scala dynasty of Verona, and built upon the ruins of an existing manor house dating back to the late Middle Ages, possibly the 9th - 10th century. Today it contains a small museum with an exhibit of the rock engravings found on Malcesine and rooms dedicated to fishing, olive growing, and stone working. A lemon grove with its characteristic enclosures stretches along its southern side. The lemon grove was built in 1753 and is still tended using traditional methods.