Patron saint festival In 314 days
Saint Bartholomew and Villa Godi
📅 Every year, on 24 August
Fara Vicentino celebrates Saint Bartholomew the Apostle on 24 August, in the church dedicated to him.
The name is Lombard: a «fara» was the armed kin-group that settled in a place, and the other centre of the comune, San Giorgio di Perlena, also bears the name of a warrior saint dear to that tradition. There are many a Fara and Farra along the road the Lombards took through northern Italy, and that is why «Vicentino» was added here. The place name appears for the first time in a bishop's act of July 1148, and until 1800 it was written Farra.
Between 917 and 921 the emperor Berengar gave Fara and all the land between the Astico and the Brenta to the bishop of Padua, but with a precise obligation: to build castles and defensive works against the Hungarian raids. The nineteenth century, by contrast, was very hard, between epidemics, poverty, pellagra and ruined vineyards, and many left for Europe and for America. In those years Domenico Pittarini lived here, who in his «Politica dei villani» had the peasants say, in rustic dialect, that priests stay priests and lords stay lords.
🎉 Festivals and feasts in Fara Vicentino 1
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🍝 The flavours of Fara Vicentino
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 Fara Vicentino
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
Places to see within 25 km
Outside Fara Vicentino, but an easy day trip away.
Castellana Caves 📍 Castellana Grotte · 1.8 km A 3,348-meter karst cave system mapped in 1938, noted for its 60-meter-deep skylight and dazzling white formations. Santuario di Maria Santissima Regina del Mondo 📍 Monopoli · 6.4 km The sanctuary in the Antonelli district of Monopoli, rebuilt as a vow for the town's safety and consecrated in 1950. Rione Monti 📍 Alberobello · 13 km The 1,030 trulli of Alberobello's larger quarter, laid dry-stone to dodge a tax. Trullo Sovrano 📍 Alberobello · 12 km With walls reaching 2.70 metres in thickness, the Trullo Sovrano is the supreme example of dry-stone architecture. Fondazione Museo Pino Pascali 📍 Polignano a Mare · 13 km Puglia's only permanent contemporary art museum, set in a former slaughterhouse overlooking the sea in Polignano. Chiesa di Sant'Antonio Abate 📍 Fasano · 17 km The Observant friars' church in Fasano, with its dome, onion-spired bell tower and frescoed 1600s cloister.