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 →No hamlet is called Valdastico: the municipality took the name of the valley when it was set up, in 1940, detaching Pedescala and San Pietro from Rotzo, and with Rotzo the two villages had enjoyed for centuries the privileges of the Federation of the Seven Communes. The town hall is at San Pietro; the name of the Astico would come from àstacus, the freshwater crayfish.
Between 917 and 921 the emperor Berengar gave the bishop of Padua all the land between the Astico and the Brenta, but with an obligation: to build castles against the raids of the Hungarians. The two wars came through here twice over: in the first the villages were shelled and the people driven out, in the second they were burnt, and the massacre of Pedescala happened when the rest of Italy had already finished celebrating the Liberation.
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chiesa di San Donato 📍 Massimino · 9.3 km The parish church of San Donato in the hamlet of San Vincenzo, baroque, built between 1818 and 1820. monastero di Santo Stefano 📍 Millesimo · 14 km Baroque church and fifteenth-century cloister, Cistercian until 1802, now inside a private castle. castello di Millesimo 📍 Millesimo · 15 km Dismantled in 1553 so the French could not take it, the thirteenth-century keep is open again. Castello di Cairo Montenotte 📍 Cairo Montenotte · 20 km The ruins of the Del Carretto castle above Cairo Montenotte, in the upper Bormida valley. Ferrania Film Museum 📍 Cairo Montenotte · 20 km Six themed rooms in Palazzo Scarampi for the plant that made Ferrania a name in world cinema. castello di Dego 📍 Dego · 24 km Ruins at Cua, above the Val Bormida, and a Napoleonic path that climbs up to them.