Illasi has 5,302 inhabitants at the mouth of the valley of the same name, at the foot of the Lessini, and the name perhaps comes from Illasius or Gelasius, a Roman veteran to whom a plot of land was assigned. In 2007, while digging for a building site at Arano, a necropolis came to light with sixty-two tombs holding seventy-three burials, dated between the end of the third and the beginning of the second millennium before Christ: the bodies in a foetal position, almost all turned to the west.
On the edge of the necropolis, deeper down and therefore older, lies a cobbled pavement in the shape of an isosceles triangle, eighteen metres at the base and twenty-five along the sides, with three burials without grave goods on the base line. Similar structures are known only at Sion, at Aosta and at Velturno: some read in it the shape of a dagger, a symbol of power, and some the prow of a ship carrying the dead towards the sunset. Above the village stands the castle, a keep flanked by a cassero: who built it, before the Scaligeri, is unknown.
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📅 Every year, on 24 August; the second Sunday of May brings the 1837 vow procession
Illasi celebrates Saint Bartholomew on 24 August. On the second Sunday of May, a procession climbs from the town to the hill, in memory of the vow of thanks made after the 1837 cholera epidemic.
Eight points, powdered sugar like snow on a mountain: pandoro was born in Verona in 1894, patented by Domenico Melegatti.
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