In 917 the emperor Berengar gave the bishop of Padua all the land between the Astico and the Brenta, the Asiago plateau included, but with an obligation: to build castles on it, because the Hungarians were coming. Calvene had the parish church and was the most direct way up to the plateau, and a castle, a rocca and a tower went up here.
The inventory of the property of Vicenza of 1262 still lists them all, with the moat, the square and the courthouse; by the end of the fourteenth century nothing was left, and it is not known when or how they were pulled down. The place names remain: Castellaro, Rocca, Monte Castello. In the nineteenth century the Chiavona, in flood, carried away the cemetery and the old parish church.
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📅 Every year, on 25 March
On 25 March Calvene celebrates its patroness Saint Mary of the Annunciation, to whom the town's church is dedicated; the Cima del Porco and Monte Cavalletto are in its territory.
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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Outside Calvene, but an easy day trip away.
