Patron saint festival In 314 days
Feast of San Bartolomeo
📅 Every year, on 24 August
On 24 August Agugliaro, a municipality of 1,422 inhabitants in the province of Vicenza, celebrates its patron San Bartolomeo.
The name probably comes from aquillarium, that is from water: the village is cut by canals, and before the Vicentines broke the bank to the harm of the Paduans the Bacchiglione ran through here as well. A deed of the bishop of Vicenza of 1306 describes a walled castle at the edge of the village and, around it, a settlement of twenty-three little houses: it was abandoned, perhaps because the water came back too often.
In 1454 the county passed from the Pigafetta to the Fracanzani, vicars of Orgiano; of the family of Magellan's chronicler the barchesse remain here. The best-known villa, though, is the one Andrea Palladio built in 1574 for Biagio Saraceno, one of his earliest and least showy: today it belongs to a British foundation, the Landmark Trust.
🎉 Festivals and feasts in Agugliaro 1
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🍝 The flavours of Agugliaro
Baccalà alla Vicentina stockfish slow-cooked with milk, oil and anchovies
Stockfish, milk, oil and anchovies, cooked for hours over the lowest heat: baccalà alla vicentina arrived from Norway with a shipwreck in 1432.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Agugliaro, but an easy day trip away.
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.