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 →The name comes from the Latin nova entia, the new lands: those wrested from the water after the floods of the Lombard age. In the year 1000 a diploma of Otto III lists the castle of Noventa among those exempt from the fodrum tax, a sign that the bishop of Vicenza valued it; Ezzelino razed it in 1240 and nobody raised it again. All that survives is a country place-name, Castellazzo.
In the cathedral, above the altar of San Rocco, hangs an altarpiece by Giambattista Tiepolo commissioned by Cardinal Carlo Rezzonico. Behind the church a small neo-Gothic shrine was put up in the nineteenth century against cholera. The centre later became a small showcase of Art Nouveau, from the Teatro Modernissimo to the villas of the early twentieth century.
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Outside Noventa Vicentina, but an easy day trip away.
Castelli Romani 📍 Albano Laziale · 8.3 km The protected area of the Alban Hills: Lakes Albano and Nemi, Tusculum and chestnut woods on the old volcano. Cattedrale di San Pancrazio 📍 Albano Laziale · 10 km The cathedral of Albano Laziale, with its eighteenth-century peperino façade and remains of Leo III's basilica. Museo Civico 📍 Albano Laziale · 11 km Albano's museum in Villa Ferrajoli: from the volcano of the Alban Hills to a pile-dwelling village and Pompey's villa. Chiesa di Santa Maria della Stella 📍 Albano Laziale · 11 km The Savelli church above the catacombs of San Senatore, in Albano, next to the historic cemetery. Castel Savello 📍 Albano Laziale · 12 km The ruins of the Savelli stronghold on an isolated hill below Albano, razed in 1435 and never rebuilt. Hadrian's Villa 📍 Tivoli · 15 km Spanning over 120 hectares, this 2nd-century imperial residence is a masterpiece of Roman architecture and UNESCO site.