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 →Villimpenta takes its name from villa picta, the painted villa: a name that speaks of decoration and not of borders, while borders are what its whole history is made of. The oldest mention is from 1047 and concerns a castellum in Villapicta which emperor Henry III had given to the Veronese abbey of San Zeno. Then the village passed to Verona, returned to Mantua in 1243, went to the Scaligeri and the Visconti, and on 23 January 1391 Francesco I Gonzaga bought it from Gian Galeazzo Visconti, castle included.
It stayed under the Gonzaga until 1708, with two sackings along the way, in 1618 and in 1796. Of all those handovers there remain the Scaliger castle and the Villa Gonzaga-Zani attributed to Giulio Romano. The twinning, on the other hand, the village chooses for itself these days: its Risotto Festival is twinned with the crushed-olive fair of Martano, down in the Salento, half of Italy away.
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Outside Villimpenta, but an easy day trip away.
chiesa dei Santi Gervasio e Protasio 📍 Belluno · 12 km A thirteenth-century church in Belluno divided in two by a wall, between the faithful and the enclosed nuns. basilica cattedrale di San Martino 📍 Belluno · 14 km Belluno's cathedral, rebuilt by Tullio Lombardo in the sixteenth century, with Juvarra's bell tower. chiesa di San Rocco 📍 Belluno · 14 km Belluno's votive church, born of the plague of 1530, in Castellavazzo stone, with a canvas by Gaspare Diziani. chiesa di Santo Stefano 📍 Belluno · 14 km The Servites' Gothic church in Belluno, in white and red stone, with Brustolon's angels and a 24-hour clock. chiesa di Sant'Aronne 📍 Belluno · 16 km The parish church of Cusighe, in Belluno, with an altarpiece by Girolamo Denti and a Last Supper by Paris Bordon. chiesa di San Liberale 📍 Belluno · 16 km A very old little church on the hill of Pedeserva, in Belluno, with a stone-slab roof and a crypt.