Discover what to do in Belfiore: the Belfiore apple festival, a bike ride in Belfiore, want to know more? First of all…
Where is Belfiore?
The municipality of Belfiore borders to the north with Caldiero, to the south with Albaredo d’Adige, to the east with Colognola ai Colli, Soave, San Bonifacio, Arcole, Veronella, to the west with Zevio and Ronco all’Adige.
The Belfiore apple festival
The 2023 edition of the Belfiore apple festival took place from Friday 29 September to Sunday 1 October in Piazza della Repubblica.
The traditional event is held with live music, dance evenings, aperitifs in the square and food and wine specialties that enhance the products of the area. The protagonists of the last edition were boiled beef with pearà, Soave prosciutto crudo and delicious apple strudel.
For more information about the Belfiore apple festival, you can visit the Facebook page Pro Loco Belfiore.
Bike ride in Belfiore, Ronco all’Adige, Albaredo d’Adige and Arcole
The starting point of the cycling route is the car park of the Church of the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ in Via Roma, 8. Leave the church facade behind you. Turn right into Via Roma and proceed for 230 metres to the intersection. Turn right again and proceed for 100 metres, then turn left into Via Porto. Leave the facade of an abandoned neoclassical church on your left and continue for just over 2 km along Via Porto.
From the bridge you can enjoy a charming view of the Adige river and the lush vegetation of poplars, willows, elms, ash trees and acacias that covers its banks. After crossing the bridge, turn left into Via Albaro Vecchio. Follow the Adige cycle path of Albaro, Ronco all’Adige for 3.2 km, entering the serene rural landscape of the Bassa Veronese, marked by lush vineyards and orchards.
Continue east along Via Remoncino for 500 metres, then resume the cycle-tourist route that crosses the hamlet of Remoncino in the municipality of Ronco all’Adige, skirting the wide bends of the Adige from which wooded river islets emerge.
After passing the Romanesque church of Saints Philip and James of Scardevara, continue for about 4 km along the dirt cycle path until you reach the bridge of Albaredo d’Adige. After crossing the bridge, turn left into Via Valle, then take the dirt road on your left. Proceed north, passing through Nautica park, along the path that winds along the edge of the Alpone stream, until you reach Botte Zerpana.
Announced by the striking bulk of two brick towers, Botte Zerpana is a hydraulic system formed by a siphon that allows the Serega ditch to pass under the Alpone riverbed. Continue north along the terracotta conduit until you reach the Napoleonic obelisk of Arcole.
Unless there are prohibition signs, proceed north along the right bank of the Talpone stream for 4.7 km, until you reach Ponte della Motta. Leave Ponte della Motta on your right. After 110 metres, keep left on Via Castello and pass between the church of Sant’Abbondio and the ruins of the castle of San Bonifacio on top of a wooded hill. At the intersection, turn left. After 90 metres, keep left and proceed along Via Masetti for 600 metres.
At the intersection with Via Circonvallazione, turn right. After 1.3 km, at the roundabout take the third exit and proceed for 2.6 km along provincial road 38 between cornfields and rustic farmhouses surrounded by vineyards and rows of cypress poplars.
At the roundabout take the first exit onto Via S. Rocchetto. After 650 metres, at the roundabout take the third exit and travel along Via Roma for 150 metres until you return to the starting point.
The Church of the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ
Set in the urban heart of Belfiore at Via Roma, 8, the exposed brick place of worship is distinguished by a majestic salient facade, vertically tripartite by four pilasters framing three portals preceded by protiri.
The central portal, larger in size, is surmounted by a mullioned window flanked by two single-lancet windows completed by round arches. Each of the side portals is surmounted by a single-lancet window.
The three naves of the church are marked by wide round arches supported by red marble columns. The side naves are covered by cross vaults, while the central nave is completed by a sophisticated barrel vault. In the presbytery rises the high altar, in polychrome marble, inserted inside a ciborium supported by four red marble columns.
