Patron saint festival
Feast of Saint Justina
📅 Every year, on 7 October
On 7 October Enego celebrates its patron Saint Justina; the town also preserves the Forte Lisser, a fortification on the plateau.
Enego stands on the eastern edge of the plateau of the Seven Comuni, and it is the comune farthest from Vicenza. In the Middle Ages the plateau was settled by people from Bavaria and Tyrol, the Cimbri, who kept their language and customs for centuries: in Cimbrian the village is called Ghenebe. In 1310 the seven comuni joined in a regency that lasted under the Scaligeri, the Visconti and Venice, until 1797.
In the First World War the plateau was the front: they fought on the Ortigara, Enego was wrecked and its people were evacuated as far as southern Italy. In the Second, fifteen families of Jewish refugees were interned here; when the Germans came they all left together, on 17 September 1943, heading for the zones already liberated. All of them survived but one: Marian Reicher, taken near Rome and killed at the Fosse Ardeatine in 1944.
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🍝 The flavours of Enego
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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Prato della Valle 📍 Padua · 15 km At 90,000 square meters, this monumental elliptical square is one of Europe's largest, ringed by 78 stone statues. basilica di Sant'Antonio di Padova 📍 Padua · 16 km Padua made him a saint in under a year, and his little church is still inside the basilica. Orto botanico di Padova 📍 Padua · 15 km It was made against fraud: to tell the genuine medicinal plants from the fakes. Villa Giusti 📍 Padua · 14 km Villa Giusti, Padua, where the armistice ending the First World War was signed on 3 November 1918. basilica di Santa Giustina 📍 Padua · 15 km The eight-domed abbey on the Prato della Valle: the tomb of Saint Luke and the Veronese on the altar. chiesa di Santa Croce 📍 Padua · 15 km Padua's only rococo church, designed by a Somascan father.