Euganei Hills’ Culture

The history and the culture of these lands is testified not only by the imposing noble buildings like villas and castles, or religious, like churches and convents, but also by the rural buildings, by the habitations and by the rustic annexes which shed, the cellar, the barn and so many other constructions fit for the conservation and working of the agricultural products. These buildings were built normally by materials at disposal onn spot and had minute details whom normally the human eye does not notice. It can be flushed out above all in the historical structures like some farms, which have maintained the original structure. Much is the elements typically venetians, that are not in other regions of Italy. Some examples of these particular constructions are the porch, the balcony to the Venetian, the chimneypots to the Venetian one had to if they it find of different very curious typology. It is sufficient to walk some minutes for the city of Venice with the eyes applied to the sky, to realise the creativity and the mastery of the artisans of these places.

Of the landscapes of these places, they are part as well as the buildings, also the shapes of the fields and of the ditches that tell the history of a not too faraway past. It is to be known about it that the land reclamation to the feet of the Euganei Hills, tore to the whole marshes lands of this territory, now become fertile agricultural areas.

The Euganei Hills are very rich of olive trees, orchards between which the famous cherries, the jujubes, chips, pomegranates and many others. Besides in autumn the harvesting of the chestnuts, filberts and almonds. The variedness of cultivated and wild edible plants, it is so varied and abundant that the gastronomy based on vegetables and above all of meat of these places it is an example of good famous local kitchen in the whole world.

The products of the Euganei Hills boast different partys  that during the year allow to the local population and to the tourists to enjoy tasty courses, to purchase fruit and fresh vegetables directly at the local producers’ and at the markets to kilometre zero. They are celebrated in some periods of the year between the roads of these countries and villages, the jujubes, the cherries, the ham, the chestnuts, the oil of olive and above all the wine.

On the Euganei Hills it is everywhere the love for the local product, which in fact is easy there find long the road restaurants, trattorias, typical taverns that keep still the taste of the ancient traditions. To pass in these places a memorable holiday breathing the true tradition of the Euganei Hills, is advised by anyone. The wide welcome offer is proposed through the wonderful ones B&B, agritourisms, little flats in fantastic landscape contexts, villas or castles of the zone. Besides, paths and treatments with overnight stay in adjacent thermal zones.