Patron saint festival In 306 days
Saint Roch, patron of Albaredo d'Adige
📅 Every year, on 16 August
Albaredo d'Adige celebrates Saint Roch on 16 August.
Albaredo d'Adige has 5,232 inhabitants on the left bank of the Adige, south-east of Verona, and its name comes from the Latin albarus, a kind of poplar, with the suffix that marks abundance: a place planted with trees. The river, though, has not always passed here: the breach at Cucca, traditionally dated to 589, is the event to which the abandonment of the old bed towards Pressana, Bevilacqua and Montagnana is traced, and the shift to the present course.
Under Venice the village enjoyed exemptions from duties and from military service; in 1610 the Council of Ten, against the opinion of the governors of Cologna, granted it a market on Fridays, exempting sellers and buyers from taxes: the weekly market is still held on a Friday. From 1897 a steam tramway linked Verona with Coriano, but it broke down so often that driver and passengers had to borrow draught animals to reach the city; they called it el masenin, the little grinder, and it was suppressed in 1927.
🎉 Festivals and feasts in Albaredo d'Adige 1
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🍝 The flavours of Albaredo d'Adige
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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Near Albaredo d'Adige
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Albaredo d'Adige, but an easy day trip away.
Castello Sanfelice 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.1 km At 783 metres above Bagnoli, the fortress that guarded the Castel di Sangro-Lucera drove road. chiesa di San Silvestro 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.5 km A church with no façade, wedged between two rocks, and a crucifix with jointed arms. Castello d'Evoli 📍 Castropignano · 9.4 km Legend gives it 365 rooms: the d'Evoli stronghold above the Biferno valley Santuario italico di Pietrabbondante 📍 Pietrabbondante · 11 km The theatre and temples where the Pentri Samnites gathered their senate, above the Trigno. castello D'Alessandro 📍 Pescolanciano · 11 km A drawbridge finished in 1691, relics in the ducal chapel, German officers in 1943. torre di Oratino 📍 Oratino · 12 km A doorway high above the ground and a ladder to haul up: the Norman tower of Oratino.