Dueville probably means exactly what it looks like: two villages that became a single one, perhaps a native settlement and a Lombard one. Another etymology starts from the Latin Villa de duabus villis and explains the union by the fact that two Roman centuriations met here, that of Thiene and that of Marostica. The names of the hamlets each say something precise too: Povolaro comes from poplars, which in Venetian are the povoła; Passo di Riva from the fact that to go north one had to ford the Astico, to «cross the bank», because there was no bridge; Vivaro from the Latin vivarium, the enclosure where live animals or fish were kept.
The water here changed its course relatively recently. Until 1820 the Timonchio ran down from Capovilla towards Vicenza along a raised, stony bed, about three metres above the level of the fields; then it broke its bank to the east and formed a marsh towards Caldogno. The old bed, though, was dry and stony, and people began to use it as a country road that did not turn to mud: some of the local streets still bear names that mean high ground. To the west lies the Bosco di Dueville, full of springs: there the Bacchiglioncello rises, which further down joins the Leogra-Timonchio, and from that point on the river is called the Bacchiglione.
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📅 Every year, on 26 July; the main feast is the Sant'Anna fair, the following Wednesday
Dueville celebrates the patron saints of the main town, Saint Mary and Saint Fosca, on 26 July; the town's main feast, however, is the Sant'Anna fair, held the Wednesday following the saint's feast day.
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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