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 →On 12 May 1752, while the men of the village had gone down to the market at Thiene, an armed expedition destroyed the forty-four houses of the settlement and deported the women, the children and the old people down the valley. It was not a raid: it was the execution of an agreement between the Republic of Venice and the Empire, which to end centuries of quarrels over pastures had ordered the people of the Laste to leave.
The village was rebuilt around 1760, at the Republic's expense, down on the banks of the Astico, where until then there had been only the stones of a landslide: a far poorer place than the old one. That descent is where today's name comes from. Austria paid compensation of fifteen thousand nine hundred florins, and the Republic spent it buying back for the villagers the mountain they had lost.
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Chiesa di Sant'Ignazio di Loyola 📍 Carpi · 11 km Jesuit church of 1670-1682 in Carpi, on a Greek-cross plan, with scagliola altars and the diocesan museum. Basilica cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Carpi · 11 km Carpi cathedral begun in 1514 to Peruzzi's design, reopened in 2017 after the 2012 earthquake. Chiesa di Santa Maria in Castello 📍 Carpi · 12 km Romanesque pieve of 1184, the oldest church in Carpi, with a Peruzzi façade and twelfth-century frescoes. Chiesa di San Bernardino da Siena 📍 Carpi · 12 km Patron church of Carpi, begun in 1604, with the reliquary bust of Saint Bernardino of Siena.