Gavirate, Italy. Local Christmas market with stalls, lights and people. Street Garibaldi in the town of Gavirate. Gavirate is located on Lake Varese (lago di Varese), famous because it hosts rowing competitions of national, European and world level. Frequented for fishing, rowing, walking and cycling along the 28 km cycle path. In the lake there is the small Islet Virginia regarded as one of the most important Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps, from 2011 added to the UNESCO World Heritage Site