The name, legend says, comes from an encounter: a man who went about baptising villages met a peasant coming up from the lake with a stocking full of frogs, el g'ha na calza de rane, and the village was called that. In the church of Sant'Ermete, built over a small temple of Diana, the votive altar to the goddess is set into the wall: Mommsen recorded it in the corpus of Latin inscriptions.
In May 1916 the Austrians placed a large-calibre naval gun here, the Lange Georg, to shell by surprise the Italian command on the Asiago plateau: its range covered the twenty-five kilometres between them. The village also has a restless administrative history: merged into Caldonazzo in 1928, a comune again in 1947, and since 1957 it has been called Calceranica al Lago.
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📅 Every year, on 29 June
On 29 June Calceranica al Lago, a municipality of 1,305 inhabitants in the province of Trento, celebrates its patrons Saints Peter and Paul with a traditional sagra, with folk games and fried fish in the square.
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Outside Calceranica al Lago, but an easy day trip away.
