Sarcedo is a town in the

province of Vicenza The province of Vicenza (; ) is a province in the Veneto region of Italy. Its capital city is Vicenza. The province has an area of 2,722.53 km2, and a total population of 865,082 (as of 2017). There are 113 ''comuni'' (municipalities) in th ...

Veneto Veneto, officially the Region of Veneto, is one of the 20 regions of Italy, located in the Northeast Italy, north-east of the country. It is the fourth most populous region in Italy, with a population of 4,851,851 as of 2025. Venice is t ...

, Italy. It is south of SP111. As of 2019 Sarcedo had an estimated population of 5,252.

Geography

The Northern area of Sarcedo is composed of fertile hills of volcanic origins, the Eastern natural border is the torrent Astico and the Western border is the torrent Igna, right next to the

Vicentine Alps The Vicentine Alps (; , ''Vicentiner Alpen'' or ''Vizentiner Voralpen'') are a mountain range of the Eastern Alps in Trentino and the provinces of Province of Verona, Verona and Province of Vicenza, Vicenza. The mountains were named after the ci ...

. The Southern part of the village is an

Alluvial plain An alluvial plain is a plain (an essentially flat landform) created by the deposition of sediment over a long period by one or more rivers coming from highland regions, from which alluvial soil forms. A ''floodplain'' is part of the process, bei ...

. The altitude varies from above sea level. The highest points are ''Cima Costa, Cima Colombara'' e ''Monte Canaglia''. The view is vast and from Sarcedo are sometimes visible points of interest as the

Monte Grappa Monte Grappa () (1,775 m) is a mountain of the Venetian Prealps in Veneto, Italy. It lies between the Venetian plain to the south and the central alpine areas to the north. To the west, it is parted from the Asiago upland by the Brenta river, a ...

, the

Sette Comuni The (, ) are seven that formed a Cimbrian enclave in the Veneto region of north-east Italy. The area is also known as the or Asiago Plateau, and it was the site of a major battle between Austrian and Italian forces on the Alpine Fron ...

, Monte Summano,

Monte Novegno Monte Novegno is a mountain of the Veneto, Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the M ...

Cima Palon Cima Palon, also called Monte Pasubio, is the highest peak of the Pasubio group of Little Dolomites in Veneto, Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. I ...

, from Piccole Dolomiti to Lessini, from

Berici Hills The Berici Hills ('Colli Berici') are a group of hills, a special formation in the alluvial plain on which stands Vicenza, originated on the bottom of an ancient sea over at least a hundred million years. Important for the top area is the Monte Beri ...

Euganean Hills The Euganean Hills ( ) 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), enc ...

and the below plain. Sarcedo has a mild climate and is characterised by hills covered in an abundant and various Mediterranean vegetation, vineyards and cultivated fields, villas decorated with ornamental plants. Currently, only a small part is composed of forest with species as

hop-hornbeam ''Ostrya'' is a genus of eight to 10 small deciduous trees belonging to the birch family Betulaceae. Common names include hop-hornbeam and hophornbeam. It may also be called ironwood, a name shared with a number of other plants. The genus is na ...

, ash and

robinia ''Robinia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, tribe Robinieae, native to North America. Commonly known as locusts, they are deciduous trees and shrubs growing tall. The leaves are pinnate with 7–21 oval leaflets. The flowe ...

History

The name Sarcedo probably derives from the Latin word ''querquetum'', which means oak forest. Indeed, still in contemporary times, the green area in the hills is composed of forest and centuries-old oaks. Maccà witnessed that this name was common to other areas as Lonigo, Castagnero and Lumignano. The name appears for the first time in a document dated 983 AD, the ''Privilegium'' given by the Bishop of Vicenza Rodolfo to the Benedictine abbey of Saint Felix in Vicenza.Sito del Comune di Sarcedo. Available from: http://www.comune.sarcedo.vi.it/c024097/zf/index.php/servizi-aggiuntivi/index/index/idtesto/20021 pril 15, 2020/ref>

Administration

Sources

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