Patron saint festival In 53 days
Saint Nicholas, patron of Castagnaro
📅 Every year, on 6 December
Castagnaro celebrates Saint Nicholas on 6 December, in the church dedicated to him.
The name is a tree that is no longer there: Castagnaro comes from the chestnuts that once covered this ground and have now vanished from sight, so much so that a few have recently been replanted in the school garden as a reminder. The village lies at the far south of the Verona country, on the border with the Polesine, and it was the fief of a long line of Veronese families: Dal Verme, Donato, Fracanzani, Rangoni, Sacrati, Trotti, Barbarigo.
Near here, in 1387, the battle of Castagnaro was fought, one of the most famous of the age of the mercenary companies: Giovanni Ordelaffi and Ostasio II da Polenta, fighting for Verona, were defeated by the Englishman John Hawkwood and by Francesco Novello da Carrara, fighting for Padua. Of the farming village there remain instead the Sette Capitei, seven votive shrines raised in seven different spots, and the parish church of San Nicolò, finished in 1844 above an eleventh-century building.
🎉 Festivals and feasts in Castagnaro 1
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🍝 The flavours of Castagnaro
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 Castagnaro
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
Places to see within 25 km
Outside Castagnaro, 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.