Negrar di Valpolicella is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Verona in the Italian region Veneto , about 110 kilometres (68 mi) west of Venice and about 12 kilometres (7 mi) northwest of Verona . Since 8 February 2019, the official name has been changed to "Negrar di Valpolicella" (L.R. n. 7, 8 February 2019) after a referendum was held in the town.
3-624: In prehistoric times, it was a center of the Arusnati , a not-well-known population of perhaps mixed origins. In the Middle Ages it was a free commune until it was acquired by the Scaliger of Verona (14th century). Later it was part of the Republic of Venice , under which, in 1791, it received the right to hold a livestock market. In 2020 the municipality announced that a Roman villa had been discovered beneath
6-420: A local vineyard. In May 2020, the discovery of a well-preserved Roman mosaic floor dating to the 3rd century AD buried underneath a vineyard is reported after about a century of searching the site of a long-lost villa. Negrar and its villages are mainly devoted to agriculture, with production of cherries , vine and fruit, and of wines such as Valpolicella , Amarone and Recioto . This article on
9-509: A location in Veneto is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Arusnati The Arusnates were an ancient people inhabiting the eastern shores of Lacus Benacus ( Lake Garda ), northwest of Verona , at the time of contact with the Romans . The Romans named the territory Pagus Arusnatium which roughly corresponds to the modern Valpolicella district of Italy . Not much is known about
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