Pandoro star-shaped Christmas cake, soft, with vanilla icing sugar
Eight points, powdered sugar like snow on a mountain: pandoro was born in Verona in 1894, patented by Domenico Melegatti.
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Rovigo covers less than 1,900 square kilometres, and in that narrow band the province manages to touch the Adriatic to the east, the Ferrara plain of Emilia-Romagna to the south and Lombardy's Mantua country to the south-west. It is the southern edge of the Veneto, flat the whole way, with Verona, Padua and Venice to the north. 50 municipalities, a little over 240,000 people, and a capital of some fifty thousand.
The city of Rovigo takes half a day on foot and does not pretend otherwise. Adria, the second town, already faces the sea. Further east the land frays into water around Porto Viro, Porto Tolle and Rosolina, where the coastline is more a negotiation than a line. Inland, Lendinara and Badia Polesine stand for the farming Polesine, the local name for this country. Cross it slowly or you will miss it.
Towns in the province of Rovigo
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50 towns
Adria Ariano nel Polesine Arquà Polesine Badia Polesine Bagnolo di Po Bergantino Bosaro Calto Canaro Canda Castelguglielmo Castelmassa Castelnovo Bariano Ceneselli Ceregnano Corbola Costa di Rovigo Crespino Ficarolo Fiesso Umbertiano Frassinelle Polesine Fratta Polesine Gaiba Gavello Giacciano con Baruchella Guarda Veneta Lendinara Loreo Lusia Melara Occhiobello Papozze Pettorazza Grimani Pincara Polesella Pontecchio Polesine Porto Tolle Porto Viro Rosolina Rovigo Capital Salara San Bellino San Martino di Venezze Stienta Taglio di Po Trecenta Villadose Villamarzana Villanova del Ghebbo Villanova Marchesana
The top 5 places in Rovigo
Our editors' ranking: the area's most important places, drawn from the individual town guides. See the national rankings →
1 ⛪ Churches & sanctuaries Chiesa dei Santi Francesco e Giustina 📍 Rovigo Franciscan church in Rovigo, Gothic in origin and neoclassical today, with a Pietà by Tullio Lombardo. 2 ⛪ Churches & sanctuaries Chiesa di Sant'Antonio Abate 📍 Rovigo The church of San Domenico in Rovigo, born with a sixteenth-century hospital, with no façade and Baroque altars. 3 ⛪ Churches & sanctuaries Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Sabbioni 📍 Rovigo The church of Santa Maria dei Sabbioni in Rovigo, Romanesque-Gothic, now inside the town cemetery. Rovigo and around, on the map
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🍝 At the table: Veneto
Baccalà alla Vicentina stockfish slow-cooked with milk, oil and anchovies
Stockfish, milk, oil and anchovies, cooked for hours over the lowest heat: baccalà alla vicentina arrived from Norway with a shipwreck in 1432.
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Saint Leonard, patron of the Roman land division
📅 Every year, on 6 November
Villadose celebrates Saint Leonard on 6 November, in the church dedicated to him.
Saint Martin, autumn patron of San Martino di Venezze
📅 Every year, on 11 November
San Martino di Venezze celebrates Saint Martin on 11 November, in the church dedicated to him.
Saint Martin, patron of Ceregnano
📅 Every year, on 11 November
Ceregnano celebrates Saint Martin on 11 November, in the church dedicated to him.
Feast of Saint Bellinus
📅 Every year, on 26 November
On 26 November San Bellino celebrates the patron after whom the town is named, to whom the Basilica di San Bellino is dedicated.