The Euganean Hills ( Italian : Colli Euganei [ˈkɔlli euˈɡaːnei] ) are a group of hills of volcanic origin that rise to heights of 300 to 600 m from the Padovan-Venetian plain a few km south of Padua . The Colli Euganei form the first Regional park established in the Veneto (1989), enclosing fifteen towns and eighty one hills.
11-676: The name memorializes that of the Euganei , an ancient people who inhabited the region upon contact with the Romans . The Euganean Hills were formed in a sub-marine outwelling of basaltic lava during the Eocene , which was followed in the Oligocene by an episode of activity characterized by viscous magma , which formed deposits of trachyte . The Euganean Hills, just visible from Venice , have been celebrated for their picturesque beauty and their hot springs. In
22-820: A group of populations, difficult to define, settled in the flat and mountainous areas of Northeast Italy , between the Eastern Alps and the Adriatic . With the arrival of the Adriatic Veneti they retreated to the Alpine valleys, blending in with the Rhaetians . Pliny the Elder , referring to Cato , states that the Euganeans were divided into three lineages, the Triumpilini ( Val Trompia ),
33-673: The Camunni ( Val Camonica ) and the Stoni. All these populations were Romanized before the beginning of the Common Era . It has been hypothesized that "Euganei" derives from the Greek εὐγενεῖς ("of noble lineage"), but a connection with Ingauni, a Ligurian population, is also possible. More likely, it is the term with which the Adriatic Venetians referred to a non-homogeneous group of tribes who, at
44-747: The Chardonnay , the Fior d’Arancio , the very sweet yellow Moscato , the Merlot , the Novello , the dry Pinello [ it ] , Pinot blanc , Red Wine, the sparkling Serprino [ it ] and the Tocai Italico [ it ] ("Italic Tokay"). 45°19′N 11°40′E / 45.317°N 11.667°E / 45.317; 11.667 Euganei The Euganei (fr. Lat. Euganei , Euganeorum ; cf. Gr. εὐγενής (eugenēs) 'well-born') were
55-519: The Euganean Hills, at Arquà , Petrarch found peace and harmony towards the end of his life, and the town now bears his name attached to it. He discovered the village in 1369; there, he stated in his letter to posterity, "I have built me a house, small, but pleasant and decent, in the midst of slopes clothed with vines and olives,"—a house that may be seen there today. The Euganean hills, like an archipelago of steep-sided wooded islands rising from
66-541: The Euganeans themselves after this migration. Further pressured by the arrival of the Gauls in the 5th century BC , the Euganean tribes maintained their independence until the end of the 2nd century BC , when Quintus Marcius Rex and Marcus Aemilius Scaurus subjugated the Stoni to Rome; Camuni and Triumpilini were definitively subjugated by Augustus in 16 BC. The Euganeans willingly accepted Roman domination, as demonstrated by
77-538: The imperial era continued to use the term "Euganean" not as an ethnic one, but as a learned geographical name to indicate Northeast Italy, or as a synonym of Patavinus . The expression " Euganean Hills ", which indicates the group of reliefs located south-west of Padua, is instead an invention of the Renaissance , while "Venezia Euganea", coined by the linguist Graziadio Isaia Ascoli , is even later. Northeast Italy Too Many Requests If you report this error to
88-454: The monuments erected in honor of the Augustan dynasty and the existence of a pagus called Livius by Livia . According to Pliny, referring to Cato, the Euganeans were distributed in 34 oppida among which the "capital" Stoenos , an alpine locality which is difficult to identify, stood out. Pliny himself recalls how Verona was a city of Rhaetian and Euganean origin. The literature of
99-457: The perfectly flat agricultural plain, inspired the setting of Percy Bysshe Shelley 's Lines Written Among the Euganean Hills . Shelley likens the hill he has found himself upon, at first to an island in "the deep wide sea of Misery", then he sees that: This brings his thoughts to Venice "thou hast been/Ocean's child, and then his queen;/Now is come a darker day," and finally to a wish for an idyllic retreat. The Parco Regionale dei Colli Euganei
110-569: The time of their arrival in Northeast Italy , occupied the vast area from Istria to Garda (or Oglio ). According to what is reported by the well-known legend on the origins of the Adriatic Venetians (handed down from a tragedy by Sophocles and taken up by Livy ), it was the latter who drove out the Euganeans who, having retreated to the Alpine valleys, mixed with the Rhaetians ; it cannot be ruled out, however, that "Reti" referred to
121-585: Was established in 1989 by the Veneto Region. It covers an area of about 18,000 hectares. The park offers a wide choice of recreational, natural world, historical and tourist activities. Thirteen wineries have grouped together under the recently established Colli Euganei denomination. Wines consist of the White, with its typical straw-yellow colour and jasmine scent, the Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon reds,
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