A small grey-stone village at the head of the Val d'Illasi, on the eastern edge of the plateau. Giazza is the last place in the Lessinia where Cimbrian, a medieval German dialect brought by Bavarian settlers, is still spoken as a community language. The setting is austere: a single street climbing past slate-roofed houses to a baroque church, with the cliffs of Monte Zevola rising directly behind.
The Museo Etnografico dei Cimbri occupies a converted house in the centre and tells the story of the settlers, with rooms reconstructed in nineteenth-century style. From the village, marked trails climb into the high pastures of the Carega massif. Most visitors come for a half-day walk and a plate of polenta with Monte Veronese cheese at one of the trattorias on the way down.