Discover what to do in Tribano: the asparagus festival, the civic tower, the church of San Martino. Do you want to know more? First of all…
Where is Tribano?
The municipality of Tribano borders to the north with San Pietro Viminario, to the south with Anguillara Veneta, to the east with Conselve and Bagnoli di Sopra, to the west with Monselice and Pozzonovo.
The asparagus festival
The asparagus festival takes place every year between April and May. The 2023 edition of the asparagus festival took place from Friday 28 to Monday 1 May and from Saturday 6 to Sunday 14 May.
The event enhances one of the most representative excellences of the rural town through market exhibitions with local agricultural products, tasting points, conferences and technical meetings on sustainable agriculture and asparagus culture, the undisputed protagonist of the event.
As every year, the fair includes a spacious and comfortable restaurant area (Gastronomic Stand in the Festa Area in Via Deledda) where you can choose delicious asparagus-based dishes, from the classic combination of asparagus and eggs to gourmet dishes such as asparagus cream soup, risotto and asparagus pie, gnocchi with asparagus and speck, and asparagus frittata. The menu also includes tasty fried fish, musso in tocio with polenta, grilled chicken and much more!
If you are wondering what to do in Tribano and wish to spend the spring season in the setting of a pleasant rural village of the Bassa Padovana, the asparagus festival takes place with engaging nature trails, vintage car and motorcycle rallies, horseback riding trials, music and dance shows, fashion shows and naturally inviting specialties made with genuine and tasty local products.
To stay updated on the next festival appointment, you can consult the Facebook page Proloco Tribano and the website prolocotribano.it.
The civic tower
One of the most notable cultural and architectural landmarks of the municipality, the towering medieval construction dominates the heart of Tribano in Piazza Martiri della Libertà, 8.
Recently restored, the white medieval tower thirty meters high rises near a Castellaro, a natural relief on which, around the year 1000, the Este family had built a fortress. The fortress would later be razed to the ground by order of Ezzelino III da Romano.
From the top of the civic tower, finished with elegant battlements, you can admire a spectacular panorama stretching as far as the eye can see over the Euganean Hills, the boundless plain and the majestic alpine peaks.
Parish of San Martino
Located at Via Barbarigo, 2, the monumental eighteenth-century place of worship is distinguished by a charming late-baroque facade.
Embellished by an elegant dentil motif, a molded cornice horizontally divides the front into two orders.
The lower order is rhythmically defined by superimposed Ionic pilasters resting on high bases. The pilasters frame the majestic entrance portal and two side niches housing the statues of Saint Peter on the left, recognizable by the symbols of the keys and the open book, and Saint Paul on the right, recognizable by the sword that symbolizes the word of God.
The entrance door is crowned by a lunette with a high-relief decoration illustrating the moment when Saint Martin, depicted on horseback, cuts a piece of his cloak with his sword to give it to the half-naked beggar, kneeling, suffering from the frost.
The portal and the lunette are enclosed by a wall surface embellished with Ionic pilasters topped by a curved pediment, interrupted at the center by sculptures of two cupids.
In axis with those below, the four Corinthian pilasters of the upper register flank a large central round-arched single-lancet window. On the sides, two niches open with statues of saints.
Completing the vertical development of the structure is the dentiled triangular pediment surmounted by four sculptures.
The vast and bright nave is enhanced by refined altars in polychrome marbles, an elaborate golden canopy that stands out in the apse, a splendid altarpiece attributed to Palma il Giovane, and spectacular frescoes including the Triumph of Saint Martin, the theological virtues and the cardinal virtues that adorn the ceiling of the hall.
If you are wondering what to do in Tribano, the church of San Martino is an invaluable monument of architecture, art and history just waiting to be visited!
