Patron saint festival In 256 days
Saints Peter and Paul, patrons of the Roccolo of Villa Negri-Piovene
📅 Every year, on 29 June
Mussolente celebrates Saints Peter and Paul on 29 June, in the church dedicated to them.
People have been arguing about the name of Mussolente for two centuries. Some derive it from Misquilen, the word carved on the Roman sarcophagus of Gaius Vettonius; others explain it through the Germanic musso plus lente, marshy land, which is what this belt of springs was before it was channelled. A deed of 1226 calls it Musculento.
The philologist Dante Olivieri changed his mind three times: he rejected the theory in 1903, accepted it a few years later in the face of Salvioni's arguments, and in 1960 ended by filing Mussolente among the uncertain etymologies. In 1149 the bishop of Belluno granted the village in fief to Ezzelino I da Romano, and it stayed with the family until their fall in 1260. In the hamlet of Casoni, during the Great War, there was an airfield.
The Mussolente guide
🎉 Festivals and feasts in Mussolente 1
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🍝 The flavours of Mussolente
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 Mussolente
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
Places to see within 25 km
Outside Mussolente, but an easy day trip away.
Bellagio and mid-lake Como 📍 Bellagio · 8.0 km Positioned at the fork of Lake Como, Bellagio combines Celtic and Roman history with a spectacular alpine landscape. Villa Melzi d'Eril 📍 Bellagio · 10 km The lakeside garden of Napoleon's duke, with azaleas and a Moorish kiosk. Villa Serbelloni Rockefeller 📍 Bellagio · 12 km The villa on the point of Bellagio, now a Rockefeller Foundation study centre. basilica di San Giacomo 📍 Bellagio · 12 km Bellagio's Romanesque basilica, baroque for two centuries then restored. duomo di Como 📍 Como · 13 km Como Cathedral, founded in 1396, featuring Late Gothic architecture, 16th-century paintings, and fine tapestries. Tempio Voltiano 📍 Como · 13 km A Neoclassical lakeside museum in Como dedicated to Alessandro Volta's scientific discoveries.