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.
Read more →It is the smallest comune in Veneto by number of inhabitants, and the name is the first thing you see: two small alpine lakes in a hollow, with the village on their shores. In the twelfth century woodcutters and miners came here from Germany, and their language has stayed in the surnames — Peterlin, Rader, Leder, Mogentale — and in a few words of the local dialect.
Self-government came late: only in 1689 did Venice allow Laghi an administration of its own. And when the Republic fell, these mountain people did not take it well: in the summer of 1809 they came down armed on Thiene and Schio against the French, protesting against the taxes and the conscription, shouting «Long live Saint Mark». They were called brigands, scattered, and their leaders severely punished.
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Near Laghi
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Laghi, but an easy day trip away.
Museo diocesano di Rieti 📍 Rieti · 17 km Rieti's diocesan museum, a route through baptistery, sacristies, lapidarium and the Papal Palace gallery. Oratorio di San Pietro martire 📍 Rieti · 17 km The chapel of Rieti's San Domenico convent with the Torresani brothers' Last Judgement, rarely open. Amiternum 📍 L'Aquila · 22 km Sallust's Sabine city under the fields: a theatre, an amphitheatre and a whole Amiternum never excavated. chiesa di San Michele Arcangelo 📍 L'Aquila · 23 km Romanesque church at San Vittorino with fifth-century catacombs, near ancient Amiternum. Teatro romano di Amiternum 📍 L'Aquila · 22 km Augustan theatre of ancient Amiternum, near San Vittorino, with opus reticulatum walls.