Press Release

8 October Vicenza will host the final Sprint knock-out of the European Championship 2023: Via Querinissima has given its patronage to the initiative, which will be valid as the World Cup Final.

European Orienteering Championship in Vicenza

Stefano Agnoletto was a guest on Caffè Europa – Europe in Slow Steps in 2025, talking about Via Querinissima and Bodø2024 as opportunities to build cultural bridges across Europe.

In this article Creta Business allows readers to discover the strong ties that linked Pietro Querini to Candia in the past (Crete today) and that still link Crete to Via Querinissima and the rest of Europe.

On Monday 16 September, at 6.30 p.m., theItalian Cultural Institute in Oslo will host a conference entitled ‘Via Querinissima: a European cultural route from Italy to Norway’, by Stefano Agnoletto.”

Thanks to El Camino de Santiago website for mentioning Pietro Querini in the maritime route of the Way of St. James of Muros and Noia.

Thanks to “La Voz the Galicia” for this article about the project “The Querina Expedition” by our Spanish partner Association de Concellos de la Ria de Muros Noia.

The ancient connection between the small Norwegian island of Røst and Veneto In 1432 the Venetian nobleman Pietro Querini shipwrecked in Norway and brought stockfish to Italy, opening a trade route that is still alive today.

Elisabeth Mikalsen, mayor of the Norwegian stockfish island, reaffirms the link with Veneto: ‘We will be at the festival. Meanwhile, Via Querinissima, a route in the footsteps of the discoverer of stockfish, asks for European recognition

Article published on Italian Journal “Il Gazzettino” about the project “In the footsteps of Pietro Querini by bicycle.” with the support of Via Querinissima.

Article published on the Italian Journal “Il Giornale di Vicenza” about the connection between the city of Røst and the city of Vicenza.

Article dedicated to the beautiful Lofoten Islands in the month-long “Itinerari e luoghi”, where Bodø, Pietro Querini and Bacalà alla Vicentina are also mentioned.

Article published on 17 May in Il Gazzettino di Venezia concerning the project ‘Sulle orme di Pietro Querini in bici/ In the footsteps of Pietro Querini by bike’.

“Via Querinissima is about creating a modern European cultural route based on the story of Pietro Querini. This route is about the merchant from Venice, who drifted ashore outside Røst in 1432, and what you may experience in his wake.

Roberto Ciambetti, President of Via Querinissima and President of the Veneto Regional Council, today presented the project “In the footsteps of Via Querinissima by bike”

The European Union National Institutes for Culture – EUNIC Cluster Norway is presenting an international round table with panelists and experts debating on the role and potential of the European Capitals of Culture and the network of the Cultural Routes in Europe.

On this occasion, the Confraternity of Baccalà alla Vicentina promoted the event ‘Via Querinissima: on the route of friendship and stockfish’.

TGR Veneto broadcast a report dedicated to discovering the Confraternity of Bacalà alla Vicentina, our founding member. Bacalà alla Vicentina, the real protagonist, is a dish that encompasses history, tradition and culture, skilfully enhanced by the Confraternity.

On 6 January, Stefano Agnoletto, Project Manager of Nordland County Council, and Odd Emil Ingebrigtsen, Mayor of Bodø, were interviewed at Caffè Europa on Radio Rai 1.

On November 15, the program of Bodø 2024, the European Capital of Culture, was presented to the European Parliament. Program director Henrik Sand Dagfinrud delivered a great presentation of Bodø2024

Via Querinissima is glad to have the Muros Noia Way of St James Association as a new member. The Muros & Noia Way is a well-kept secret among the Way of St James

Roberto Ciambetti, President of Via Querinissima: ‘The Via Querissima’s candidature for recognition as a European Cultural Route has been officially presented to the Council of Europe in Luxembourg. A new great European adventure begins today’.

“The special relay of the Organizing Committee of the Sprint Orienteering European Championships 2023 started from the Norwegian Røst in the Lofoten Islands, north of the Arctic Circle, valid as World Cup finals

From 1 to 10 August, the Organising Committee of the orienteering event will be on the route of the merchant Pietro Querini to seal a union between history, sport and the iconic ‘bacalà’ (stockfish).

“Creating the first cultural route candidate for official recognition by the Council of Europe, which develops both by sea route and along land routes, from the Mediterranean to Crete, to the North Sea, and back from Norway to Venice along the route taken between April 1431 and January 1433 by the Venetian merchant Pietro Querini.”

Articles of the Italian FOCUS STORIA monthly magazine

Articles of the Italian newspaper “Corriere del Veneto” pulished on 06 July 2022 after the costitutions of the Association Via Querinissinima from myth to history in Venice.

Articles of the Italian newspaper “Il Sole 24 ore – 07th october 2014 The route of “Stockfish” a bridge with Norway.