In 1207 the Commune of Verona rid itself of Monteforte by handing it to Bishop Adelardo, and in exchange took jurisdiction over Legnago and Tregnago: a swap of villages. The bishops kept it, with a vicar who administered justice, until the fall of the Republic of Venice, nearly six hundred years later.
Near the bridge over the Alpone stands a shrine dedicated to Saint John Nepomuk as early as 1634, almost a century before the Bohemian priest was canonised: it served against the floods of the torrent, and the water explains the haste. Above the village rises the parish bell tower, built between 1894 and 1897 and seventy-nine metres tall, among the highest in Veneto. All around, the vineyards of Soave.
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📅 Every year, on 17 January, with the Montefortiana foot race, born in 1976
Monteforte d'Alpone celebrates Saint Anthony the Abbot on 17 January. On the feast's weekend, or the following one, the Montefortiana is run, a foot race born in 1976 that draws around 20,000 participants every year.
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 Monteforte d'Alpone, but an easy day trip away.
