Patron saint festival
Saint Justina, patron of the land of the pentagonal tower
📅 Every year, on the second Sunday of October
Arcugnano celebrates Saint Justina on the second Sunday of October.
Lake Fimon is what remains of a much larger lake, called Longara, which until the fifteenth century covered nearly all these valleys. Around it rise the Berici hills, and they were born in the sea: in the rock you find sea urchins, corals and mollusc shells, laid down on the floor of a warm sea and later lifted up.
In 1841 the geologist Catullo climbed from Monte Berico to the Margaritoni and described what nobody had yet bothered to record: the basalt that had pushed up through the limestone and thrown it into confusion, and the volcanic bombs piled inside the rock. Arcugnano is a scattered municipality: the town hall is not in the place that gives the commune its name, but at Torri.
🎉 Festivals and feasts in Arcugnano 1
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🍝 The flavours of Arcugnano
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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Near Arcugnano
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
Places to see within 25 km
Outside Arcugnano, but an easy day trip away.
Fondazione Museo Pino Pascali 📍 Polignano a Mare · 700 m Puglia's only permanent contemporary art museum, set in a former slaughterhouse overlooking the sea in Polignano. Santuario di Maria Santissima Regina del Mondo 📍 Monopoli · 12 km The sanctuary in the Antonelli district of Monopoli, rebuilt as a vow for the town's safety and consecrated in 1950. Castellana Caves 📍 Castellana Grotte · 15 km A 3,348-meter karst cave system mapped in 1938, noted for its 60-meter-deep skylight and dazzling white formations. Celia peuceta 📍 Bari · 17 km Ancient Caelia, the Peucetian city that Bari beat with its harbour. Rione Monti 📍 Alberobello · 24 km The 1,030 trulli of Alberobello's larger quarter, laid dry-stone to dodge a tax. Trullo Sovrano 📍 Alberobello · 23 km With walls reaching 2.70 metres in thickness, the Trullo Sovrano is the supreme example of dry-stone architecture.