Marostica is a little town in the Veneto region of northern Italy, in the province of Vicenza. It is a picturesque place, located with the Veneto plain on one side and green hills to the north. Marostica’s own hill is crowned with a large ruined castle; defensive walls descend to enclose the hillside and the town centre below in a protective embrace.<\/p>\n
Marostica bills itself as the ‘City of Chess’: every two years a medieval-themed festival is held here, when a giant chess game is enacted with human chess-pieces. This takes place in the town square, Piazza del Castello, where the paving marks out a huge chessboard.The Chess Game (Partita a Scacchi di Marostica) takes place in even-numbered years on the second weekend in September.<\/p>\n
In odd-numbered years the town hosts a chess tournament instead. The story which is re-enacted during the ‘living’ game, which involves scores of costumed participants and human chess-pieces, is of a local ruler with a beautiful daughter. She had two suitors but rather than letting them fight a duel, the lord proposed a chess match with the winner receiving her hand in marriage and the loser marrying her younger sister.<\/p>\n
It is an interesting event and is a must watch while you are visiting Italy during this time of the year. It is suggested that you hire a car to go around the place and check out the surrounding areas of Marostica, like Bassano del Grappa and Vicenza.<\/p>\n
Car Rental Italy provides cars and mini vans on hire. Touring through the place also gives you a chance to explore every detail. Renting a car is the best way to tour through the place. Some internet browsing can get you to economical packages offered by different car rentals with their quotations. A quick search can also get you a chance to compare various packages offered by www.car-rental-italy.com<\/a> and the privileges offered by them on car rentals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Marostica is a little town in the Veneto region of northern Italy, in the province of Vicenza. It is a picturesque place, located with the Veneto plain on one side and green hills to the north. Marostica’s own hill is crowned with a large ruined castle; defensive walls descend to enclose the hillside and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.car-rental-italy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.car-rental-italy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.car-rental-italy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.car-rental-italy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.car-rental-italy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.car-rental-italy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":813,"href":"https:\/\/www.car-rental-italy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions\/813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.car-rental-italy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.car-rental-italy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.car-rental-italy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}