| Costabissara Costabissara | ||
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| State | Italy | |
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| Region | Veneto | |
| Altitude | 51 m a.s.l. | |
| Surface | 13.13 km² | |
| Inhabitants | 7.703 (2019) | |
| Prefix tel | 39 0444 | |
| POSTAL CODE | 36030 | |
| Time zone | UTC 1 | |
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Costabissara is a city of Veneto in province of Vicenza, bordering on Vicenza. Located at the foot of the hills, it is among the municipalities that are part of the urban belt of the capital.
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Geographical notes
Located at an altitude of 51 meters above sea level, the town is located at the foot of the Bissaresi hills, the terminal parts of the Prealps and part of the Southern Lessini Vicentini which include the best known Monte delle Pignare, seat of the famous Lombard church of St. George and the cemetery. The hill, formerly known as Mount of the Church, is formed by limestone rocks and has a sinkhole on the top that gives it the appearance of a volcano. The famous locality of Madonna delle Grazie is located on the adjacent hills.
Much of the territory (70%) belongs to Venetian plain, 7% at the foot of the hills and the remaining 23% is in the hills. The town is bathed by the Orolo stream, almost always dry, and by various canals and ditches, also for water purposes. The most famous of these is the Roggia Bagnara or Roggia Rosa (in Veneto: Rose) which, with a series of curves, crosses the entire country.
The territory of Costabissara consists of an urban part, located in the center of the municipal area. The rest of the country is made up of fields. However, there is no lack of districts further away from the center, such as the localities Ca 'Carraro, Valentine's day, Furnaces, San Zeno, Pillar, on hills, Pinch is Our Lady of Grace and in Motta Fabrega, Box office, Villaraspa, Cadanotte is Motta low.
Costabissara borders:
- north-east with Caldogno
- southeast with Vicenza
- south with Monteviale
- west with Gambugliano
- northwest with Vicentina Island.
Background
Originally, it seems even before the year 1000, it was named Costa Fabrica or Costa Favrega: these names recall the existence of numerous quarries of stone, limestone and marble used to obtain the material with which the Roman aqueduct of Vicenza was built in ancient times.
Prehistory
The discovery of a large quantity of pottery dated to the Bronze Age (the oldest of which is about 1500 BC) suggests that the first human settlement in the area was made up of a tribe of about thirty individuals, who lived in partially buried huts with a stone base. Subsequently there was a depopulation of the area which will undergo re-occupation in the 10th and 9th centuries BC. leading to the creation of two small villages: one in the valley of Mound to the north-east of the Colle delle Pignare and one on the plain in the locality of Valentine's day, more southern. In these areas and in neighboring sites it was possible to observe an evolution of farming and agriculture techniques: plowing, construction of terraces on the slopes and rotation in the use of the land. Around the eighth century BC we are witnessing a new depopulation in favor of some centers in the plain leaving sporadic presences.
Roman times
In the 2nd and 1st centuries BC Romanization begins, leading to the assignment of land to Roman veterans. Many Roman dwellings scattered throughout the various fertile areas and subdivisions of the territory linked to the centuriation have been dated to the first two centuries AD. The Roman presence is more evident in Motta, where the Vicenza aqueduct was present. The findings confirmed the presence of permanent settlements and the importance of a territory that housed part of the aqueduct (passing through Villaraspa) that supplied Vicenza. There were several quarries of stone, marble and limestone.
An important find, discovered in 1970 at the intersection of via Mascagni and via Carducci, consists of a Roman rustic villa which served as a farm for cultivation, breeding and for the industrial production of textiles, ceramics, tools and wagons. The villa seems to have been inhabited from the 1st century to the 6th century, that is, during the imperial period of Rome. Now a large part of the area has become a playground in which the walls have been preserved by burying them and signaling their presence with a column rock and a trachyte stele.
Middle Ages
In 568 the Lombards, led by Alboino, entered Vicenza, following the via Postumia, conquering it. This is the premise of numerous changes in the customs and places of Vicenza and the suburbs.Their subsequent conversion to Catholicism led to the construction of the famous early Christian church of San Zeno, under the reign of Theodolinda, to the Pieve di San Giorgio on the hill and small church of Santa Maria in Favrega.
After the arrival of Charlemagne in 774 and his decline, the period of feudalism began and with it the increase in the power of local families and religious authorities, in particular the feudal bishops. In this period the right is given to build fortifications to protect themselves from repeated Hungarian invasions, thus giving life to the three castles of Costabissara: the castle of Donna Berta, the castle of Pizamerlo (the only one of which no trace remains) and the Sforza castle. -Colleoni.
The appointed vicars, also known as podestà, exercised great power over the land under their jurisdiction until 1406, having the faculty to govern the Municipality without the help of other public representatives and benefiting by themselves of most of the benefits deriving from the annual revenues of the Municipality itself.
Since ancient times (at least since 1067) Costa Fabrica has been counted among the possessions of the Noble Counts Maltraverso, former owners of Schio, Lonigo, Santorso, Montegalda and Barbarano and having jurisdictions also in the cities of Treviso, Padua, Feltre, Cividale, Ravenna and other cities in Romagna. Around 1200 some members of the Maltraverso family declined due to suspicions of heresy and the family of the Counts Della Costa was invested with the title of Cattanei or Castellani minor. With the fall of Ezzelino III da Romano, the Della family Costa declined and, in 1261, Giacomo Baretta obtained the investiture from the Bishop of Vicenza, the Blessed Bartolomeo da Breganze, with the condition of never defending the heretics. After a short time, the Lozzo Counts, originally from Padua, were invested.In 1285 Alberto Bibe of Padua, procurator of Lozzo, renounced the rights to the villa of Costa Fabrica and the bishop of Vicenza Bernardo Nicelli handed it over to Gualdinello Bissari, who paid the count of Lozzo 4250 lire. Of the Bissari family, who also led to the change of the name of the fiefdom, we remember the exponents Matteo and Pier Paolo Bissaro.
Modern era
Towards the end of the eighteenth century the Napoleonic laws decreed the suppression of the vicariate and the Viceroy of Italy Eugenio Beauharnais, in 1810, constituted the municipal capital with the hamlets of Gambugliano, San Lorenzo and Monteviale and subsequently formed the administrative municipality with the sole fraction of Motta. With the fall of Napoleon the municipal administration was further modified by the Austrian government. After the annexation of Lombardy-Veneto following the third war of independence, in 1866, Costabissara became a municipality.
In 1859, with the death of Count Girolamo Enrico Sforza, the last male member of the Bissari family, the fiefdom was divided between the sisters and their descendants. The castle passed to Count Guardino Colleoni, the future Villa San Carlo to Cesare Biego while the rest of the property passed to the countess grandchildren. The castle in 1894 was sold to Pia Zabeo wife of the Marquis Aleduse De Buzzacarini and the villa was sold to Mrs. Elisa Conte Dalle Ore.
During the First World War, Costabissara was assigned to the military rear and after the Austrian conquest of Asiago it was invaded by refugees. A small French hospital was located in the Villa Buzzaccarini (today's castle) and the Brigade and Division Command were located in Villa San Carlo. With the defeat of Caporetto, Costabissara became part of the second line and trenches and fortifications were built for the defense from the Austro-Hungarian enemy. The population reached the number of 5,000 inhabitants due to the refugees who arrived with the whole family. A shooting school was created in the infant school and on the Pignare a training ground for the launch of bombs.
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Costabissara: full screen map.How to get
By car
The town can be reached from the motorway network via the
Milan-Venice and the
(called "della Val d'Astico") to the north. Those traveling on the A4 can use the Vicenza Ovest exit, from which you can reach the center of Costabissara in about 15 min. (with medium traffic).
2 km from the urban center of Costabissara and for a piece of the municipal territory passes the 
del Pasubio (former state road 46 del Pasubio).
On the train
From the Vicenza railway station it is possible to use the SVT public transport to reach Costabissara.
By bus
The Vicentina Trasporti Company (SVT) serves the urban center and the hamlet of Motta. The part of the town on the SP46 (and therefore also Motta) is served with two groups of lines:
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