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 →It is the smallest municipality in the Veneto by area, and on the twenty-third of April 1335, when mass was over, under the portico of the house of Uguccione son of Olderico the thirty-four heads of household gathered, summoned by the beating of a board: with notaries from Montorso, Grancona and Brendola they wrote the statutes of the commune, sixty-seven articles that can still be read today at the Bertoliana library in Vicenza.
Having always been tiny, Zermeghedo lost its autonomy every time a centralising government came along, under Napoleon and under fascism, and took it back in 1947. The name is thought to be Lombard, from a detachment of King Alboin's army set to guard the via Postumia. The village sweet is the gobeto, a biscuit made with Recioto wine, which has its festival in June.
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