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Guiness
Even Vicenza and its province can boast several “firstsâ€
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The first airplane connection between ROME-TOKYOWas the work of a someone from Vicenza: the pilot tenent ARTURO FERRARIN from Thiene covered the 16,700 km distance in three and a half months in three stages. His voyage started on the 16th February 1920 and finished on the 31st May. The effective number of hours in flight were 98, whilst the highest speed reached was 220 km/h.
In 1928 Arturo Ferrarin carried out another aviation feat: a non-stop Italy-Brazil flight that left Rome on the 3rd July and finished two days later when he landed in Natal.
2 Gold Medals for Vicenza
Vicenza is the only municipality in Italy to have two gold medals on its flag for military honours:
- the first, for the resistance against the Austrians in 1848, and was awarded by King Vittorio Emanuele II on the 18th november 1866
- the second, for suffering undergone by the population during the Liberation War '43 - '45, and was awarded by the President of the Republic Oscar Luigi Scalfaro on 11th March 1995.
Vicenza had the first European firework
fired in 1379 to celebrate the reconcilliation between the Scaligeri and Visconti. Naturaly the very first Pacific firework belongs to China where the firework industry was born and developed. The official date is 1103, a couple of centuries after the discovery of gunpowder. However in 1044 there is already a mention of a device called HUO CHIEN made by the Chinese which consisted in a type of arrow tied to a bamboo stick full of gunpowder.
The Arabs exported fireworks into Europe where, as stated, they first appeared in VICENZA.
The longest staircase in the world: 4,444 steps
that lead from the bottom of the valley (Val Frenzela) to the Asiago Plateau covering a drop of 700 metres. It originated in the Visconti era (1398) and was once used to transport wood to the valley.
Each year, at the end of August, an interesting event called the Fiaccolata storica della Calà del Sasso is held. |
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