{{Infobox Italian comune | name = Vo' | official_name = Comune di Vo' | native_name = | image_skyline = | imagesize = | image_alt = | image_caption = | image_shield = | shield_alt = | image_map = | map_alt = | map_caption = | pushpin_label_position = | pushpin_map_alt = | coordinates = {{coord|45|20|N|11|38|E|type:city(3,416)_region:IT|display=inline,title}} | coordinates_footnotes = | region = Veneto | province = Province of Padua (PD) | frazioni = | mayor_party = | mayor = | area_footnotes = | area_total_km2 = 20.4 | population_footnotes = | population_total = 3416 | population_as_of = Dec. 2004 | pop_density_footnotes = | population_demonym = | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_m = | twin1 = | twin1_country = | saint = | day = | postal_code = 35030 | area_code = 049 | website = | footnotes = }} '''Vo'''' (or '''Vo' Euganeo'''; sometimes incorrectly spelled '''Vò''' or '''Vò Euganeo''') is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Padua in the Italian Veneto region, located about {{convert|50|km|mi}} west of Venice and about {{convert|20|km|mi}} southwest of Padua, in the western end of the Euganean Hills. Mount Venda forms part of its territory, at {{convert|603|m|ft}} the highest of the Hills area. Along with the three other Italian towns Ne, Re, and Ro, Vo' shares the distinction of having the shortest town name in Italy. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 3,416 and an area of {{convert|20.4|km2|mi2}}.<ref name="istat">All demographics and other statistics: Italian statistical institute Istat.</ref>
Vo' borders the following municipalities: Agugliaro, Albettone, Cinto Euganeo, Galzignano Terme, Lozzo Atestino, Rovolon, Teolo.
Vo' was an early hotspot in the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, and valuable lessons were learned in the successful management of Vo'{{'}}s epidemic.<ref name=Crisanti2020-03-20/><ref name=saini/>
== History == Vo' takes its name from the Latin ''Vadum'', probably the ancient commercial port on the Adige River, which until 589 forked near Monte Este, and its secondary branch ran alongside the Euganean Hills, skirting Monte della Madonna. During the medieval period, two castles went up: one belonging to the noble Da Vo' family and another at Castellaro belonging to the Maltraversi family. Between the 16th and 17th centuries noted Venetian families (including the Contarini and the Veniers) built a number of villas in the area, and at this same time the old center, Vo' Vecchio, was founded, seat of the ''comune'' until 1900. In 1900 a new municipal "capital" was set up at Vo' Centro, known also as Ca' Erizzo; in 1933 the name Vo' was made definitive. One of its most famous villas is the Ca' Morosini. The villa, which goes back to at least 1300 and was once a Benedictine hermitage, has belonged to the Zavattiero family since 1930.
==COVID-19 pandemic== Vo' became the center of the COVID-19 pandemic in Veneto when two people were found positive on 21 February 2020. The next day, one of them, a 78-year-old man, died, the first COVID-19 death in the country.<ref>{{cite news |title=Scientists say mass tests in Italian town have halted Covid-19 there |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/18/scientists-say-mass-tests-in-italian-town-have-halted-covid-19 |access-date=19 March 2020 |work=The Guardian |date=18 March 2020 |language=en}}</ref> The number of infections had also risen to 29.<ref>{{cite web |title=Coronavirus, ora sono 42 i contagiati veneti. Il focolaio resta Vo' |url=https://corrieredelveneto.corriere.it/veneto/cronaca/20_febbraio_25/ora-sono-33-contagiatima-17-non-hanno-sintomi-88a2fd1a-5797-11ea-8e15-9a789c46cfd0.shtml?refresh_ce-cp |website=Corriere Del Veneto|date=25 February 2020 }}</ref> On 24 February an "iron-clad sanitary cordon" was created around the town and a testing program for all of its residents initiated.<ref name=saini>{{cite web |url=https://euobserver.com/coronavirus/147848 |author=Valentina Saini| title=Vo' - the Italian town that defeated coronavirus| publisher=euobserver| date=2020-03-27 |access-date=2020-04-10}}</ref> As of 29 February, 3% of the population was found to test positive, most of them asymptomatic.<ref name=saini/><ref name=Crisanti2020-03-20/> People with positive tests were placed in isolation.<ref name=Crisanti2020-03-20/>
By March 23, the spread of the disease had been stopped and no new cases could be identified.<ref name="saini" /> It was concluded that mass testing of people with no symptoms in conjunction with isolation of infected persons was critical to control the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in Vo'.<ref name="McCall2020-03-19">{{cite web |last1=McCall |first1=Rosie |title=Coronavirus mass testing experiment in Italian town appears to have halted COVID-19 outbreak |url=https://www.newsweek.com/coronavirus-mass-testing-experiment-italian-town-covid-19-outbreak-1493183 |website=Newsweek |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200321131113/https://www.newsweek.com/coronavirus-mass-testing-experiment-italian-town-covid-19-outbreak-1493183 |archive-date=21 March 2020 |language=en |date=19 March 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Crisanti2020-03-20">{{cite web |last1=Crisanti |first1=Andrea |last2=Cassone |first2=Antonio |title=In one Italian town, we showed mass testing could eradicate the coronavirus |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/20/eradicated-coronavirus-mass-testing-covid-19-italy-vo |website=The Guardian / University of Padua |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200323203803/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/20/eradicated-coronavirus-mass-testing-covid-19-italy-vo |archive-date=23 March 2020 |date=20 March 2020 |url-status=live |quote=asymptomatic or quasi-symptomatic subjects represent a good 70% of all virus-infected people and, still worse, an unknown, yet impossible to ignore portion of them can transmit the virus to others}}</ref>
== Demographic evolution == {{historical populations |align=none|cols=3 |graph-pos=bottom |1861|? |1871|2655 |1881|2968 |1901|3378 |1911|3793 |1921|4084 |1931|4019 |1936|4120 |1951|4312 |1961|3735 |1971|3677 |1981|3655 |1991|3399 |2001|3432 | source=Data from ISTAT }}
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