In 1311 the municipality of Piovene bought part of Monte Summano from the city of Vicenza, including the patch at the top where the friars' house was later built: a village that buys its own mountain. The Summano is cone-shaped and looks like a volcano, but it is limestone on a basalt pedestal, and pilgrims have been climbing it for centuries.
In 1816, while digging the foundations of the bell tower, a Roman gravestone came to light: that of Papiria Maxima for her mother Letilia Macrina. Today it is set into the wall around the presbytery. The town's second name is recent: Rocchette was added in 1933, when that district mattered for the Rossi woollen mills, the railway station and the breweries.
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📅 Every year, on 26 December, for the Piovene parish
Piovene Rocchette is a town of three parishes with three distinct patrons. The Piovene parish celebrates Saint Stephen the Protomartyr on 26 December; the Rocchette parish celebrates Saint Joseph on 19 March, and the Grumello parish the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary on 8 September.
📅 Every year, on 19 March, for the Rocchette parish
The Rocchette parish, in Piovene Rocchette, celebrates Saint Joseph on 19 March; the Piovene parish celebrates Saint Stephen the Protomartyr on 26 December, and the Grumello parish the Nativity of Mary on 8 September.
📅 Every year, on 8 September, for the Grumello parish
The Grumello parish, in Piovene Rocchette, celebrates the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary on 8 September; the Piovene parish celebrates Saint Stephen the Protomartyr on 26 December, and the Rocchette parish Saint Joseph on 19 March.
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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Outside Piovene Rocchette, but an easy day trip away.
