Discover Foza: Churches, Museum and Panoramic Views

Foza combines religious buildings, places of remembrance and the history of the Asiago Plateau with striking landscape views. If, during your trip to Italy, you are comparing places with cultural attractions and regional destinations, here you will encounter both evidence of reconstruction and older art and long-established traditions.

History and Everyday Culture in Foza

The Museo Etnografico della Comunità di Foza is housed in the former town hall, also known as "la casa del santo". The building represents the reconstruction of Foza after the severe destruction of the First World War. The museum location thus directly connects local history with a specific building.

Since August 2013, the museum has also housed a section dedicated to the Foza sheep. Photographs, documents, objects and memories convey the pastoral economy that supported the economy of Foza and the entire plateau for centuries. This gives you a tangible sense of a part of the region's social and working history that extends beyond individual buildings.

The parish church of Foza is dedicated to Santa Maria Assunta and was inaugurated on 12 August 1926. Its Romanesque bell tower was completed in 1927 and is 34 metres high. The church also houses the Pala dell'Assunta, a painting created in 1519 by Francesco Da Ponte il Vecchio and the only painting in the parish to survive the destruction of the First World War.

The Monumento ai Caduti memorial site also leads into the town's wartime history. Along the path leading there, trees bear plaques with the names of local soldiers who fell in the First World War. Further plaques bearing the names of soldiers who fell in the Second World War have been placed on the outer wall.

Churches, Tranquillity and Distant Views

The Chiesetta di San Francesco stands on a promontory overlooking the Venetian plain as far as the Venetian Lagoon. It is considered the oldest hermitage on the Asiago Plateau and, for centuries, its only hermitage.

Foza's religious history also includes the Chiesa di S. Antonio, built immediately after the Second World War, and the Chiesetta di S. Rocco. The latter was built in 1870, bombed during the war and subsequently rebuilt.

Bridge and Surroundings of Foza

The Ponte Valgadena, inaugurated in 1990, connects Foza and Enego across the valley of the same name. Bungee jumps from around 175 metres are possible there.

The mountains Col d'Astiago, Monte Forcellona and Col del Gallo are located around Foza. The Cave di Rubbio is also nearby. In the wider surrounding region are the Parco del Sojo Arte e Natura museum, the Museo dell'Automobile "Bonfanti-VIMAR" and Castello degli Ezzelini castle.

Foza's historical traditions include the Quinquennali. These historic celebrations originated in 1837 as a thanksgiving to the Madonna. Together with the parish church, the hermitages, the ethnographic museum and the regional destinations, they provide several cultural focal points from which you can shape your daily itinerary according to your interests.

For further orientation, you can also explore Vulcano, Nanto, Marostica, Lovara, San Vito Di Leguzzano, Rive Poleo, Tresché Conca and Castegnero.

For the broader travel overview: Vicenza.