Discover what to do in Stanghella in the Province of Padua: the Madonna del Carmine festival, Villa Centanini and Marco Antonio Centanini Park. Want to know more? First of all…
Where is Stanghella?
The municipality of Stanghella borders north with Solesino, to the east with Pozzonovo, to the west with Granze, to the southeast with Boara Pisani, and to the southwest with Vescovana.
The Madonna del Carmine festival
According to the liturgical calendar, the day dedicated to Our Lady of Mount Carmel is July 16, and the celebration in her honor in the municipality of Stanghella also takes place in the days before and after this date.
The 2023 edition of the festival was held from Saturday July 15 to Sunday July 23 at the parish social center in Via Santa Caterina, 4.
An ideal occasion for food lovers, the event features a large dining area where you can enjoy delicious land and sea dishes, from spaghetti alla pescatora and fettuccine with meat and duck ragù to musso with polenta, from delicious fried fish to succulent chops, ribs and grilled sausages served with French fries and slices of polenta cooked on the griddle.
The menu includes gnocchi with meat ragù and bigoli all’amatriciana, to be enjoyed with top-quality wines and cold mugs of beer, ideal for quenching your thirst and easing the summer heat.
If you are wondering what to do in Stanghella, the Madonna del Carmine festival is a recommended event for those who want to spend the warm season in a charming rural town in the heart of the Bassa Padovana, among live music, dance evenings and tempting food and wine specialties.
For more information about this traditional celebration, you can visit the Facebook page Pro Loco Stanghella.
Villa Centanini
Located in Piazza Renato Otello Pighin, Villa Centanini is one of the municipality’s most representative architectural and cultural landmarks.
Overlooking a vast centuries-old wooded park, the magnificent noble residence you can admire today is the result of a series of reconstructions and expansions of an older residential complex dating back to the 17th and 18th centuries.
Purchased by Francesco Centanin di Domenico in the early years of the 19th century, the stately architectural complex consists of a central body flanked by two two-story side wings.
Structured on four levels: plinth, ground floor, piano nobile and mezzanine, the manor house is crowned by a terrace with a parapet, located centrally on the roof, built in the first half of the 19th century at the behest of Pietro Luigi Centanin, mayor of Stanghella from 1914 to 1920.
Engineer Centanin was also responsible for the decision to build the soaring little tower used for astronomical observations.
The villa’s façade, on the south side and the north side, is adorned on the piano nobile by an elegant arched doorway enhanced by a graceful wrought-iron balustrade.
Marco Antonio Centanini public park
If you are wondering what to do in Stanghella, the Marco Antonio Centanini public park is a splendid tree-lined garden that stretches for 62,000 m² opposite Villa Centanini.
From the stone balustrade, you descend into this radiant 19th-century green lung. The park consists of a large grassy area framed by noble tall trees, from silver Atlas cedars to majestic linden trees, tree of heaven, maritime pines, poplars and cypresses whose branches shade several benches.
The path guides visitors through the lush tree and shrub vegetation until it reaches a lovely little pond surrounded by lively hills. A noteworthy architectural feature is the old rectangular greenhouse on the north side of the garden.
Marked by three large round arches, the structure has been in a state of neglect for many years and is wrapped in a striking aura of decadent charm.
