Discover what to do in Sarego: the Assumption Festival, the church of Santa Maria Assunta, the panoramic itinerary among the hills. Want to know more? First of all…
Where is Sarego?
The municipality of Sarego borders to the north-east with Brendola, to the north-west with Montebello Vicentino, to the south with Lonigo, to the east with Brendola and Val Liona, to the west with Montebello Vicentino and Lonigo.
The Assumption Festival
The traditional celebrations take place every year in mid-August, but the festival also occurs in the days before and after this date. The 2022 edition was held from August 11 to 16 in Piazza Don Stefano Lago.
The event reconciles the solemn ceremonies of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin, in the parish of Sarego, with the outgoing and jovial atmosphere of a bygone fair dedicated to live music and specialties that enhance the excellence and healthiness of the local gastronomy.
Recommended appointment for gourmets, especially lovers of fish specialties, the event offers appetizing dishes, from succulent fried fish to spaghetti alle vongole, which you can savor inside large and comfortable tent structures, not forgetting exquisite grilled meat to accompany with slices of steaming polenta and fried potatoes.
To further enliven the warm evenings of the beautiful season, there will be musical performances by talented tribute bands, a dance floor where you can dance the liscio thanks to impeccable orchestras, and for those who want to let loose to the rhythm of overwhelming and hypnotic percussion, there will be electrifying concerts by skilled DJs.
If you are wondering what to do in Sarego and want to spend the Ferragosto day among glasses of wine, mugs of beer and culinary specialties that make your mouth water in the radiant rural setting of a quiet town immersed in the Vicenza plain enclosed by the elegant profile of lush wooded hills, participating in the Assumption Festival is an opportunity not to be missed!
The church of Santa Maria Assunta
One of the most significant architectural and cultural landmarks of the municipality of Sarego, the church of Santa Maria Assunta is located at Via Chiesa, 7, standing on a hill from whose summit you can gaze over the boundless plain of Sarego marked by dense hedges of willows, chestnuts, holm oaks, cherry trees and dark cypresses soaring along white avenues that separate the vast expanses of corn from fields dotted with pale olive trees.
The formidable mass of the neoclassical place of worship is distinguished by a majestic double-pitched facade vertically punctuated by four colossal semi-columns of composite order that divide the front into three sectors, in the central one, larger in size, opens the massive wooden portal surmounted by a triangular tympanum supported by sinuous corbels.
Above the door, flanked by niches housing statues of two saints, stands a bas-relief depiction of the Assumption of Mary set in an octagonal frame.
Completing the vertical development of the structure is the imposing triangular dentilled pediment crowned by a stone cross flanked by two statues.
Panoramic itinerary
The starting point of the recommended route is the parking lot at the sports facilities in Via Valle (45.408859818187636, 11.410117891889573). Proceed along Via Valle in a north-west direction to the intersection with Via del Poggio. Turn right and continue along Via del Poggio and Via S. Eusebio for 550 meters through a dense corridor of foliage, then keep right on Via S. Eusebio.
At the fork, keep right on Via Rocchetta. Follow Via Rocchetta for 1.4 km among sunny cornfields, lush vineyards and fruit trees. Turn left on Via Grotte, after 190 meters keep right on Via Monte Paolina along charming dry stone walls that flank picturesque rustic buildings. After 1 km turn right on Via Valle S. Giovanni.
After 500 meters keep right on Via Monte Calonghe surrounded by olive trees with dark knotty trunks near a splendid oak. Proceed for 800 meters along Via Monte Calonghe and Via Monte Pimpo, then turn right on Via Rocca. Follow Via Rocca for 1.3 km among lively slopes furrowed with vineyards and turn right. Follow Via Rocca for 190 meters, then keep left on Via Rocca and continue on Via Crosetta until reaching the stop sign on Via Grotte (45.40329307106505, 11.406667559787351).
Keep left on Via Grotte, then, after the cemetery, turn right on Via Chiesa. Go behind the church along the path that leads to Via Valle. Keep right, leave the Osteria al Brolo on your right and continue along Via Valle until returning to the starting point.
If you are wondering what to do in Sarego and want to undertake a charming panoramic path that winds through grassy hillsides from which you can contemplate fabulous views of the Vicenza countryside clad in lush woodland vegetation, dotted with silver olive trees and furrowed by orderly vineyards, this is just one of the many routes that will make you appreciate the natural heritage of the municipality.
