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 comune is made of four settlements — La Fabbrica, Mussolino, San Pietro Nuovo and San Pietro Vecchio — once far apart from one another and now almost joined by new houses and workshops. Of the name there are two explanations: the Venetian mussolin, that is mosquito, of which there were many here, or the Latin mansus, a piece of uncultivated ground: in the thirteenth century these lands were given to the Cimbri to clear.
In 1331 the village lay under the vicariate of Arzignano and the Scaliger podestà of Vicenza; five years later it took part in a rising against the Scaligeri and got administrative privileges out of it. On the arms there is an upside-down cross: it is the martyrdom of saint Peter, the patron.
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ricetto di Candelo 📍 Candelo · 6.9 km Two hundred cells inside a pentagon of walls: one of the best preserved ricetti in Europe chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Vigliano Biellese · 7.1 km A Romanesque bell tower, a baroque front with a serliana, and a wall dated 1944 Villa Era 📍 Vigliano Biellese · 8.1 km An eighteenth-century farmstead turned into a show villa between 1884 and 1888 Castello di Castellengo 📍 Cossato · 13 km A tenth-century castle turned residence: the Frichignono arms and the Savoy siege that ended in 1409. Ecomuseo del Cossatese e della Baragge 📍 Cossato · 13 km A scattered museum of rural life, with the visitor centre for the Baragge reserve. Villa Ranzoni 📍 Cossato · 13 km The Ranzoni family's eighteenth-century villa, now the municipal library of Cossato.