Theme Week Veneto – Schio

9 July 2013 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  5 minutes

Piazza Alessandro Rossi © Puscas Vadim/cc-by-sa-3.0

Piazza Alessandro Rossi © Puscas Vadim/cc-by-sa-3.0

Schio is a town and comune in the province of Vicenza situated North of Vicenza and East of the Lake of Garda. It is surrounded by the Little Dolomites (Italian Prealps) and Mount Pasubio. By the 12th century Schio had become an important centre of prosperous wool manufacturing. The city was ruled by the Venetian Maltraversi family until 1311.   read more…

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