The name has nothing to do with the adjective: it probably comes from the Suaves, that is the Suebi, written Soavi in old Italian, who settled here after the invasions. A bull of pope Eugene the Third, in 1145, calls the place Suavium, land of the Soavi. The castle appears in the documents in 934, the time when the Magyars were coming down into western Europe; the walls you still see today were built by Cansignorio della Scala in 1379.
Cansignorio again, in 1375, had the palace of justice built in piazza Antenna, and it was paid for by the twenty-two villages that depended on the captaincy of Soave: their names are on a plaque on the front, the largest of all the Scaliger ones. The wine that carries the name of the town is made on the hills above it, at the foot of the Lessini.
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📅 Every year, on 10 August; the third Sunday of May brings the medieval white wine feast
Soave celebrates Saint Lawrence on 10 August, in the church dedicated to him. On the third Sunday of May, the Festa medioevale del vino bianco Soave is held, with medieval games, old crafts and the investiture of the «Castellane di Suavia».
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 Soave, but an easy day trip away.
