RIVA  , a fortified

district town of Tirol, Austria, near the Italian frontier . Pop . (1900) 7550 . It is a lake port and steamship station at the northern extremity of the Lago di Garda . There are two forts on the Monte Brione a little over ' Des Blut im Glauben and Aberglauben (Eng. trans., The Jew and Human Sacrifice, London, 1909).a mile north-east of the town, and the old castle of La Rocca was reconstructed and extended in accordance with modern requirements in 185o . The Minorite Church (1603), with altar pictures by Guido Reni and other Italian painters, is much frequented as a place of pilgrimage . In addition to. its transit trade and the entertainment of visitors, the principal resources of the town are the manufacture of paper, iron wares and pottery, the cultivation of the silk-worm and the olive tree, and a considerable commerce in timber, planks and coal . Riva is connected with the Ledro valley by a picturesque road which passes in a series of tunnels and galleries along the rocky and precipitous west shore of the lake .