Families across northern Italy know Bussolengo for Parco Natura Viva, the large zoological garden with safari drive that is also one of Europe's reference centres for endangered-species conservation: animals are bred and reintroduced here, exchanged with zoos across the continent. It is the attraction that put the town on the family-travel map.
The municipality of 19,483 on the Adige, between Verona and Lake Garda, has far older farming roots: the church of San Valentino, frescoed inside and out, keeps the fishermen's patron, and blossoming peach orchards once coloured the whole plain. Ten minutes from the lake, it now makes a shrewd base for dodging lakeside prices.
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📅 Every year, on 14 February, with the Fiera di San Valentino, a tradition of over three hundred years
Bussolengo celebrates Saint Valentine on 14 February, with the Fiera di San Valentino, the town's main and most distinctive feast, held for more than three hundred years in the week around the occasion.
Eight points, powdered sugar like snow on a mountain: pandoro was born in Verona in 1894, patented by Domenico Melegatti.
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Outside Bussolengo, but an easy day trip away.
