Patron saint festival In 217 days
Saint Zeno's Sagra
📅 Every year, around 21 May
Around 21 May Palù, a municipality of 1,284 inhabitants in the province of Verona, celebrates its patron Saint Zeno with the Sagra di San Zenone.
The village stands where the marsh of the Comune of Verona used to be: the drainage began in 1194 and ended in 1199, five years spent channelling the Bussè and the Fosso Storto down to the Adige. From then on this land served to feed the city, and cheaply.
For centuries few people lived here: it was reckoned the territory could support four hundred, and the parish came only in 1526. On the coat of arms there are three reeds in water, which is what was here before. Today apples are grown, and Nano Vialone rice, watered from the springs.
🎉 Festivals and feasts in Palù 1
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🍝 The flavours of Palù
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 Palù
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Palù, but an easy day trip away.
Città Alta and the Venetian Walls 📍 Bergamo · 18 km A 6,200-meter wall built by Venice in the 16th century, this UNESCO World Heritage site encloses Bergamo Alta. Accademia Carrara 📍 Bergamo · 17 km The count founded the gallery and the school together, so pupils could copy from life. Teatro Gaetano Donizetti 📍 Bergamo · 17 km The theatre born where wooden huts once stood, now Donizetti's home. basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore 📍 Bergamo · 18 km The church without a façade in Bergamo's upper town: Campione's lions and the intarsias designed by Lotto. chiesa dei Santi Bartolomeo e Stefano 📍 Bergamo · 17 km The lower Bergamo church with the Martinengo altarpiece, Lotto's largest. chiesa di Santo Spirito 📍 Bergamo · 17 km Bergamo church called «of the Tasso», with Lorenzo Lotto's 1521 altarpiece and the via Pignolo chapels.