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 →Valbrenta has 5,385 inhabitants and was born on 30 January 2019 from the merger of Campolongo sul Brenta, Cismon del Grappa, San Nazario and Valstagna; the referendum had been held in five comuni, but at Solagna the no prevailed and Solagna stayed out. The seat is at Carpanè, and the coat of arms holds the four villages together: the lion of Saint Mark, the mountains with the flag, the dolphin with the caduceus and a tobacco plant.
The comune takes in almost the whole valley of the Brenta, closed to the west by the plateau of the Seven Comuni and to the east by the Grappa massif. At Oliero the church of the Santo Spirito was built along with a Benedictine cenobium by Ezzelino II da Romano, who retired there in 1221. At Cismon the Madonna del Pedancino is venerated, a wooden Virgin and Child of the late fifteenth century: the flood of 1748 carried her away, and she was found again thirty kilometres downstream.
🍝 The flavours of Valbrenta
Straight-line distances from the town centre. Tap a point to open its page.
Near Valbrenta
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
Places to see within 25 km
Outside Valbrenta, but an easy day trip away.
Castello Sanfelice 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.1 km At 783 metres above Bagnoli, the fortress that guarded the Castel di Sangro-Lucera drove road. chiesa di San Silvestro 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.5 km A church with no façade, wedged between two rocks, and a crucifix with jointed arms. Castello d'Evoli 📍 Castropignano · 9.4 km Legend gives it 365 rooms: the d'Evoli stronghold above the Biferno valley Santuario italico di Pietrabbondante 📍 Pietrabbondante · 11 km The theatre and temples where the Pentri Samnites gathered their senate, above the Trigno. castello D'Alessandro 📍 Pescolanciano · 11 km A drawbridge finished in 1691, relics in the ducal chapel, German officers in 1943. torre di Oratino 📍 Oratino · 12 km A doorway high above the ground and a ladder to haul up: the Norman tower of Oratino.