Patron saint festival In 255 days
Feast of Saint Peter
📅 Every year, on 29 June
On 29 June Campiglia dei Berici, a municipality of 1,791 inhabitants in the province of Vicenza, celebrates its patron Saint Peter.
At the beginning of the thirteenth century the church of Vicenza was deep in debt to usurers and had to sell much of what it owned. In 1207 bishop Uberto II sold the castle of Campiglia and the whole village to the canons of the cathedral; ten years later the castle passed to a Vicenza nobleman, Pace Repeta.
Ezzelino took the castle, and the wars of the fourteenth century finished it. Yet in 1363, and again in 1388, the bishops were still investing the Repeta with «the villa, the court, the territory and the castle of Campiglia»: the castle had long since gone, and its ruins had already given the place the name it still carries, le Motte. The deed was probably just repeating the old formula. In 1672, on the ruins of the Palladian villa of the Repeta, another was built.
🎉 Festivals and feasts in Campiglia dei Berici 1
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🍝 The flavours of Campiglia dei Berici
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 Campiglia dei Berici
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Campiglia dei Berici, but an easy day trip away.
chiesa di Madonna di Campagna 📍 Verona · 14 km Sanmicheli's church built around a fresco that escaped demolition. Arena di Verona 📍 Verona · 18 km Four arches still standing after the 1117 earthquake, and opera on Roman steps since 1913. Casa di Giulietta 📍 Verona · 17 km Verona's most visited monument is a medieval tower house famously transformed into a shrine to Shakespeare's Juliet. Piazza delle Erbe 📍 Verona · 17 km The Roman forum turned marketplace: towers, frescoed palaces and a fountain from 1368. ponte Pietra 📍 Verona · 17 km Verona's Roman bridge, blown up in 1945 and rebuilt with the stones fished out of the Adige. Porta Vescovo 📍 Verona · 16 km Scaliger gate from 1287-1289, rebuilt by Venice in 1520 and later reshaped by the Austrians.