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.
Read more →The name comes from iron: the Romans worked the deposits of this valley, and the comune's coat of arms carries an anvil and a hammer. It was iron that made the village valuable to the Scaligeri, who exempted it from Verona's taxes and duties; but in 1442, as a punishment for an attempt at independence, its territory was annexed to the vicariate of the Garda.
In 1630 the plague halved the village: from 313 inhabitants it fell to 133. Three centuries later the front of the Great War ran right through here, and trenches and fortifications still line the paths; on the first day of the war it was the alpini of the Verona battalion who crossed the border with Austria-Hungary setting out from Ferrara.
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Chiesa di Sant'Ignazio di Loyola 📍 Carpi · 11 km Jesuit church of 1670-1682 in Carpi, on a Greek-cross plan, with scagliola altars and the diocesan museum. Basilica cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Carpi · 11 km Carpi cathedral begun in 1514 to Peruzzi's design, reopened in 2017 after the 2012 earthquake. Chiesa di Santa Maria in Castello 📍 Carpi · 12 km Romanesque pieve of 1184, the oldest church in Carpi, with a Peruzzi façade and twelfth-century frescoes. Chiesa di San Bernardino da Siena 📍 Carpi · 12 km Patron church of Carpi, begun in 1604, with the reliquary bust of Saint Bernardino of Siena.