Patron saint festival
Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel
📅 Every year, on 29 September
On 29 September Villaga celebrates co-patron Saint Michael the Archangel; the village's other patron, Saint Anne, is celebrated on 26 July.
Villaga sits on karst, dry ground, and that decided the shape of the village: the hamlets grew where there was water, around the springs, and on the Pozzolo plateau wells were dug by hand to reach the water table. Many of the fountains have gone. The coat of arms is not the comune's but a family's: the black lion with a forked tail of the Barbaran, feudal lords of the church of Vicenza.
Under a rock face stands the hermitage of San Donato, documented from 1240: the apse of the church leaned against the rock and joined the shelter. In the thirteenth century it became a Benedictine nunnery under an abbess, but in 1326 the nuns bought a house in the city and left. Then the ruin: in the nineteenth century some of the walled-up shelters were lived in. Since 1980 the Alpini of Pozzolo have been putting it back together.
🎉 Festivals and feasts in Villaga 1
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🍝 The flavours of Villaga
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.
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Teatro Bibiena 📍 Mantua · 24 km Designed by Antonio Galli da Bibbiena in 1767, this bell-shaped Mantuan theatre hosted a young Mozart in 1770. castello di San Giorgio 📍 Mantua · 24 km Gonzaga fortress in Mantua, famous for the Camera degli Sposi frescoes painted by Andrea Mantegna. Palazzo Ducale 📍 Mantua · 24 km Spanning over 35,000 square metres, the Gonzaga palace in Mantua is one of Europe's largest royal residences. chiesa di San Sebastiano 📍 Mantua · 24 km Designed by Leon Battista Alberti in 1460, the Temple of San Sebastiano is a Renaissance church in Mantua. basilica di Sant'Andrea 📍 Mantua · 24 km The largest church in Mantua, a Renaissance masterpiece designed by Leon Battista Alberti. piazza Virgiliana 📍 Mantua · 24 km A historic green square in Mantua featuring a grand Carrara marble monument dedicated to the Roman poet Virgil.