| Noventa Padovana | ||
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| State | Italy | |
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| Region | Veneto | |
| Territory | Venetian plain | |
| Altitude | 13 m a.s.l. | |
| Surface | 7.08 km² | |
| Inhabitants | 11.263 (year 2014) | |
| Name inhabitants | Noventani | |
| Prefix tel | 39 049 | |
| POSTAL CODE | 35027 | |
| Time zone | UTC | |
| Patron | Saints Peter and Paul (June 29) | |
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Noventa Padovana is a city of Veneto.
To know
It boasts numerous villas of the Venetian nobility for holidays along the banks of the Brenta.
Geographical notes
Located eight kilometers east of the center of Padua, Noventa represents a real belt between the nearby city and the Riviera del Brenta. Geographical position, commonality of historical events and, above all, the presence of a group of Venetian villas of great importance make, in fact, Noventa the last town of the Riviera, placed at the end of the suggestive itinerary that from the Lagoon of Venice comes to Padua.
The presence of villas in the area has considerably conditioned its urban development: Noventa, in fact, does not have a real center and the population is concentrated both near Camin and Ponte di Brenta, close to Padua, and towards Stra from which it is 4 km.
Background
The toponym Noventa has the meaning of land recently cultivated after the reclamation carried out in the marshy areas of the Brenta. Noventa was originally a rural village subject to its neighbor Padua and its foundation probably dates back to the period in which these lands were inhabited by the Eneti. From the documents it is ascertained that until 1400 the territory was included among the assets of the canons of the cathedral of Padua.
In the eleventh and twelfth centuries Noventa was a river port of particular importance in the connections with Venice, especially after the excavation of the Piovego Canal, carried out by the free municipality of Padua between 1209 and 1210, and the construction of the bridge over the canal. In 1919 the current bridge with the locks was erected, and the old one fell into disuse until it was demolished: remains of the access steps can be seen along the left bank.
In addition, the Paduan Dalesmanini family owned a castle there, which was probably the home of Isabella, wife of Emperor Frederick II of Swabia. In fact, in 1239 the sovereign, a guest for a few months of the Padovani, delighted in hunting expeditions right in Noventa. Its position, the presence of waterways and the fertility of the lands undoubtedly attracted many wealthy exponents of the Paduan nobility, just think that in the fourteenth century the largest landowner was Enrico Scrovegni, a businessman and banker linked to the frescoed chapel of the same name. by Giotto. He had bought the possessions that once belonged to the Dalesmanini but, in 1331, when he was exiled to Venice, his fiefdom was ceded to the Venetian Niccolò Foscari.
The fourteenth century was a century of wars, famines and plagues. After the transfer of Padua to Venice in 1405, the Carraresi properties were sold at auction, the Venetian patricians moved their interests from the sea to the mainland, favoring the properties lapped by the waters of the Brenta that guaranteed rapid communications with the Serenissima. Then trade and crops flourished while the port, documented since 1095, regained its original importance. The first villas were built in that period, linked to the economic-agricultural function: their flowering continued from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, leaving some splendid examples that are still appreciable today. They were stone buildings that were distinguished from modest wooden or straw houses (the so-called casoni) where the peasants and breeders lived.
In addition to the course of the Brenta, the Piovego Canal was also exploited, which in any case played a secondary role.In the 18th century it enjoyed even European fame for the convenience of holidays, which took place in sumptuous villas belonging to the most exclusive Venetian nobility. The burchiello it was in fact a boat that allowed a quick connection between Padua and Venice through the Brenta. Following the excavation of the Taglio di San Vito, which took place in 1854, the Brenta took its current course: until then, between Brenta Bridge is Stra, the river flowed along the current municipal border with Vigonza, separating the town of Noventa from that of San Vito. The riverbed reached, therefore, almost in proximity to the urban center, on the back of the Valmarana and Todeschini villas.
The official name of Noventa Padovana dates back to 1867, the year of the annexation of Veneto to the Kingdom of Italy which distinguished it from the homonymous municipalities of Noventa Vicentina and Noventa di Piave. The current toponym is however confirmation of the ancient denomination in use in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries of '' Noventa under Padua ''.
How to orient yourself
Noventa Padovana: full screen map.Neighborhoods
Its municipal territory also includes the towns of Noventana and Oltre Brenta.
How to get
By plane
- 1 Verona Airport (Catullus), Boxes of Sommacampagna, ☎ 39 045 8095666, @[email protected].
- 2 Treviso Airport (Canova), via Noalese 63 / E.
- 3 Venice airport (Marco Polo), ☎ 39 041 2606111.
How to get around
What see
- 1 Parish Church of Saints Peter and Paul. Documented for the first time in 1203, it was rebuilt in 1747. The building, one of the most monumental of the Riviera del Brenta, recalls the style of the Venetian architect Giorgio Massari, author of some villas in Noventa, including Villa Giovannelli. The typically eighteenth-century façade has a large pediment and a high order of pilasters. The statues are attributed to Pietro Danieletti; the angels to one of the Bonazza. Inside, above the baptismal chapel, there is a statue of the Madonna and Child by Giovanni Bonazza, the founder of a prolific eighteenth-century Venetian school of sculpture. Another valuable work is the Crucifix, late seventeenth century, located in the anti-sacristy, linked to an ancient cult of the town and coming, according to tradition, from the oratory of a no longer existing villa. The monumental high altar is the work of Danieletti, like the statues on the facade.
- The bell tower belongs to a later period: it was built by the parish priest Monsignor Giuseppe Moda between 1854 and 1857, on a previous tower part, in Moorish style, with Gothic-Venetian motifs. Due to its height (56 meters) and originality it has become a characteristic element of the Noventa landscape.
Villas
- 2 Villa Loredan Bragadin Gallini Saccomani. Located to the right of the parish church, it is a villa of clear sixteenth-century origin. The main facade has very simple shapes with string courses, a central arched window, a projecting cornice and a short staircase leading to the mezzanine. The park extends to the north-east of the villa and is full of flower beds, adorned with statues, and centuries-old trees. The villa was restored in the second half of the 18th century and the main room is decorated with sober stuccoes and in a side room the over doors are embellished with bas-reliefs depicting yellow-green parrots. From 1844 to 1877, the villa was the residence of the illustrious astronomer Giovanni Santini who held the position of mayor of the municipality from 1866 to 1875. Around 1850 he had a tower built for astronomical observations.
- 3 Villa Grimani Vendramin Calergi Valmarana. The structure of the villa, characterized by the raised central crowning and connected to the underlying part by volutes (which certainly underwent renovations) with advanced lateral wings, appears in all its large and solid volume, within a fairly recent park. Inside the villa there are vast eighteenth-century frescoed complexes and rococo chinoiserie decorations that embellish the noble floor: this decorative cycle, the work of the scenographer and painter Andrea Urbani, represents for Noventa the true swan song of the Venetian pictorial eighteenth century, which in this villa he once found another testimony also in three canvases by Giovan Battista Tiepolo. The villa also houses the foundation entitled Elena Vendramin Calergi, a Venetian countess who died in 1894, who left the building to be used as a school for the deaf and dumb: the institute began operating in 1909.
- 4 Villa Giovanelli Colonna. Commissioned by the patriarch of Venice Giovanni Maria Giovanelli, a patrician of Bergamo origin, was built on a project by Antonio Gaspari, a pupil of Longhena in the last decade of the seventeenth century. In 1738 Giorgio Massari added a staircase adorned with statues by Antonio Tarsia, Antonio Gai, and Paolo Groppelli; inside, the villa is decorated with frescoes by Giuseppe Angeli and Francesco Zanchi. The facade of the building appears in the coat of arms of the municipality. Inside, the villa is organized around a large hall, the walls of which were painted by Giuseppe Angeli in 1760. The side apartments, which host stairs to a small hall, represent a clear influence of the style of Baldassarre Longhena. The interiors are decorated with copious stuccos, in Baroque style, with cherubs and medallions with figurative scenes, the work of early eighteenth-century decorators, mostly from the Canton Ticino.
- 5 Villa Manzoni, via Noventana. Built in the second half of the eighteenth century near the ancient course of the Brenta that flowed on the present site of the Provincial Road 33, it preserves inside the magnificent frescoes by Andrea Urbani. In the large garden stand out the large conifers, especially Cedars of Lebanon, which are truly remarkable for their beauty and size.
- 6 Villa Todeschini. The elegant building dates back to the 17th century and belonged to the Marcellos, then to the Toniolos and from 1786 to the Todeschini. The villa re-proposes the typical layout of the medium-sized villas of the Brenta Riviera with a central tympanum and is flanked by a small church, built in 1805.
- 7 Villa Gemma. The eighteenth-century villa (formerly known as Villa Suppiei-Penasa and now owned by the Giaretta family) has vast rustic surroundings and some trees of the old park. The building suffered extensive damage following the flood of 1966: the eastern body was destroyed by the nearby 'route', the last of a series that is certainly centuries old.
- 8 Villa Canella Dalla Favera. Of an eighteenth-century layout, it presents interventions from the following century which have always maintained the "rustic" character of the holiday residence. The north facade overlooking the canal, although without the original tympanum, still has the balcony on the first floor with a curved balcony and the windows arranged symmetrically. To the south east stands the barchessa, still in a good state of conservation, which is grafted onto the central body of the building, equipped with a park.
- 9 Villa Vendramin Cappello Collizzolli. The building overlooks an intimate garden, populated by statues of mythological subjects, enclosed by very tall plants and by the wide arches of the solid "barchessa"; towards the towering row of cypress poplars, the boundary wall in which two gates open. The building, of sixteenth-century origin, was probably remodeled at the end of the seventeenth century, while the interiors took on their final appearance in the neoclassical era, with the paintings on marmorino on the ceilings of the ground floor and the frescoes attributed to Costantino Cedini.
- 10 Villa Morosini Antonibon. Its construction dates back at least to the mid-18th century. The plant consists of a central body, with an eighteenth-century tympanum and portal, and two long side wings of a rustic character which appear however prior to that date, perhaps from the end of the seventeenth century or the early eighteenth century. The extremity of the left wing, which previously housed an oratory, has recently been transformed into a residential part.
- 11 Villa Giustiniani De Chantal Destro. Born as the center of a farm, it became a splendid holiday resort throughout the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The current building, upon careful analysis, turns out to be the adaptation of a late sixteenth-century building to which two short side wings and the crowning with a tympanum were added in the eighteenth century; the interior is embellished with frescoes by Andrea Urbani.
- 12 Villa Gussoni Candian. The residence dates back to the first half of the 16th century, a period in which the Venetian Villa received an evident Renaissance influence: the simplicity of the tympanum and the central three-light window with small columns and balcony are an example. The main facade was then revisited in the mid-eighteenth century, with the addition of two volutes connecting the tympanum and the central body of the building and the south wing, marked by a projecting balustrade.
Events and parties
- Feast of the Befana.
January 6. - Volunteer Festival. June 2.
- Noventana Patronal Feast of Sant'Antonio da Padova. June 13.
- Noventana Patronal Feast of Saints Peter and Paul. June 29.
- Feast of the Redeemer on the Piovego Bridge. third weekend of July.
- Zoom Zoom Festival. beginning of June.
- Noventa Fair (Festival of the folpo). fourth Sunday in October. The autumn fair has a seventeenth-century tradition. Today the fair revolves around local handicrafts, attractions for children and folpari, the sellers of hot octopuses.
January 6.What to do
Shopping
How to have fun
Where to eat
Where stay
Safety
Pharmacies
- 4 Chestnut, Via Roma, 23, ☎ 39 049 625277.
- 5 Perin, Via Noventana, 82, ☎ 39 049 8932726.
Parapharmacies
- 6 Europe, Piazza Europa, 20, ☎ 39 049 6226186.
How to keep in touch
Post office
- 7 Italian post, Europe Square 33, ☎ 39 049 8955811, fax: 39 049 625071.
Around
Itineraries
- Walled cities of Veneto. An itinerary to discover the strongholds and the history of Veneto.
Useful information
- 8 Pro Loco - Tourist information office, Via Valmarana 12, ☎ 39 339 8503233.
Other projects
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