Sbrisolona crumbly almond and cornmeal cake, broken by hand
White and yellow flour, almonds, butter and sugar, broken by hand: sbrisolona is Mantova's cake, already served at the Gonzaga court.
Read more →Borgo Virgilio has existed since 2014, when Borgoforte and Virgilio merged after a consultative referendum backed their councils' plan. Its arms, quartered by a blue cross, set a silver castle with three towers and Ghibelline merlons beside the laurel-crowned head of the poet Virgil in the golden quarter; below runs the motto Labor omnia vincit.
Tradition and leading philologists identify the hamlet of Pietole with ancient Andes, the village where Virgil was born. Andes was the Celtic name of the settlement on the right bank of the Mincio, from a root for a river's bends; in the Middle Ages it became Pletule, Boccaccio writes Piectola, and Dante in the Purgatorio calls it better known than any ordinary Mantuan village. Then the name moved house: the cluster that grew along the Strada Romana in the late eighteenth century took Pietole, while the old site is called Andes again. The monument to Virgil, by the Mantuan sculptor Agamennone Paganini, was unveiled in 1884 with a speech by Giosuè Carducci.
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Near Borgo Virgilio
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Borgo Virgilio, but an easy day trip away.
chiesa dei Santi Martino e Rosa 📍 Conegliano · 14 km The Dominicans' church on the Monticano, in Conegliano: an unfinished brick façade and an Adoration of the Shepherds. chiesa dei Santi Rocco e Domenico 📍 Conegliano · 14 km The church of San Rocco in Conegliano, an ex-voto for the plague of 1630: twentieth-century façade, a De Min ceiling. duomo di Conegliano 📍 Conegliano · 15 km Conegliano's cathedral, hidden behind the frescoed Scuola dei Battuti: inside is Cima's altarpiece of 1492. Museo civico di Conegliano 📍 Conegliano · 15 km The museum in the tower of Conegliano's castle: picture gallery, detached frescoes and the panoramic terrace on top. chiesa di San Dionigi 📍 Conegliano · 17 km The parish church of Collalbrigo, a hamlet of Conegliano, rebuilt after the 1873 earthquake and consecrated in 1894. Chiesa di San Giorgio 📍 Pordenone · 21 km Pordenone church with a bell tower shaped like a Doric column and the statue of Saint George on top.