| Oderzo | ||
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| State | Italy | |
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| Region | Veneto | |
| Territory | Venetian plain | |
| Altitude | 13 m a.s.l. | |
| Surface | 42.35 km² | |
| Inhabitants | 20.361 (year 2012) | |
| Name inhabitants | Opitergini | |
| Prefix tel | 39 0422 | |
| POSTAL CODE | 31046 | |
| Time zone | UTC 1 | |
| Patron | San Tiziano, Santa Maria Maddalena (January 16 and July 22) | |
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Oderzo is a city of Veneto.
To know
It is a city of very ancient Paleovenetian origin which became an important Roman Municipium and was called Opitergium. Nowadays it is an important agricultural and industrial center.
The tourism sector is growing significantly; the city is second only to the provincial capital (Treviso). In the nineties Oderzo gained the title of "archaeological city". Later it was nominated by the Italian Touring Club "Most arcaded city in Italy": the arcades are in fact one of the symbols of the city, and practically all the buildings in the historic center and the palaces built in the last forty years are equipped with them. Finally, in January 2007 the provincial administration granted Oderzo the title of "City of art".
Geographical notes
In the fertile Venetian plain, is 29 km from Treviso, 22 from Conegliano, 23 from Sacile, 27 from Pordenone, 30 from Portogruaro, 22 from San Donà di Piave.
Background
Oderzo was born halfway between the Cansiglio mountains and the Adriatic Sea around the 11th century BC, by the ancient Venetians. The area chosen for the settlement was fertile and strategically important, because it was served by two rivers, with safe trade routes: the Monticano and a now non-existent branch of the Piave.
Peacefully incorporated into the area of influence of the Roman Republic, in 49 BC, thanks to the Lex de Gallia Cisalpina it obtained the status of Municipium. It reached its peak in the 1st-2nd century, when it is assumed that the city had about 50,000 inhabitants. The importance was such that at the time the Venice Lagoon was called opitergina, and the mountains of Cansiglio Monti opitergini. Various authors name the city; among them: Ptolemy, Strabo, Pliny the Elder, Lucan, Tacitus, Tito Livio and Quintiliano. The ancient one passed through Oderzo via Postumia, which connected Genoa to Aquileia.
From this moment on, Oderzo was fully part of Rome and participated in its own fate, suffering for centuries the heavy consequences of the barbarian invasions and the wars between the Byzantines and the Lombards (Duchy of Ceneda): it began to recover very slowly only after the year 1000, even without ever returning to the ancient glories.
Later it was disputed by the great feudal families of the area, in particular by the da Camino, the Collalto and the Scaligeri. In 1380 it passed under the control of the Republic of Venice, of which it was part almost continuously until the arrival of Napoleon (1797). The city then became Austrian in 1815 and Italian in 1866. In this period the city suffered the consequences of the phenomenon of emigration.
In 1917 the retreat of Caporetto brought serious damage to Oderzo, including the destruction of the municipal archive and the destruction of various artistic and architectural works. Starting from 1943 it was the scene, like the whole area, of bitter clashes between fascists and partisans that culminated in the Brandolini massacre.
Similarly to what happened in the entire province, the city has seen a succession of two phases of development after the war: the first with the economic boom of the sixties, and the second in the eighties and nineties. With the beginning of the phenomenon called a posteriori "the miracle of the Northeast" the whole area will see a very rapid economic development in the artisan, industrial and commercial sector, with the consequent birth of a myriad of small companies, almost all with less than ten employees. It is also for this reason that currently more than twenty banks are active in Oderzo, one for every less than a thousand inhabitants.
Again with regard to the economic sector, Oderzo can boast for example the largest livestock market in the Veneto region after that of Padua and a thriving real estate market that has developed in recent years. Oderzo is also at the forefront in the field of gastronomy and viticulture, in particular in the production of Verduzzo, Merlot, Cabernet and Raboso.
How to orient yourself
Oderzo: full screen map.Neighborhoods
The towns of Camino, Colfrancui, Faè, Fratta, Piavon, Rustignè, with the towns of Magera and San Vincenzo, are towns in its municipal territory.
How to get
By plane
- 1 Venice airport (Marco Polo), ☎ 39 041 2606111.
- 2 Treviso Airport (Canova), via Noalese 63 / E.
- 3 Verona Airport (Catullus), Boxes of Sommacampagna, ☎ 39 045 8095666, @[email protected].
By car
Toll booth of Treviso North on the A27 motorway of Alemagna
Toll booth of San Donà di Piave - Noventa on the A4 motorway Serenissima- Toll booth of Conegliano on the A27 motorway of Alemagna
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It is crossed by the via Postumia, former state 53 
It is the cornerstone of the Provincial Conegliano - Oderzo
Toll booth of 
Toll booth of 
It is crossed by the via Postumia, former state 53
It is the cornerstone of the Provincial On the train
- 4 Railway station, via Garibaldi 167. It has a railway yard right along the line Treviso - Portogruaro
How to get around
What see
- 1 Cathedral of San Giovanni Battista. Begun around the 11th century and consecrated in 1535 to St. John the Baptist, it was built on the ruins of an ancient temple dedicated to Mars. The original aspect, in Romanesque-Gothic style has been heavily compromised by renovations carried out over the centuries. The last major restoration, commissioned by Monsignor Domenico Visintin, dates back to the years 1921-1924 and has restored, as far as possible, the ancient conformation of the building. Inside there are some valuable works by Pomponio Amalteo, Domenico Tintoretto, Palma il Giovane and the copy of an altarpiece, stolen in the Napoleonic era, by Cima da Conegliano, now exhibited at the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan. The bell tower was built in the sixteenth century on the basis of a tower of the old city walls, and has a slope of 98 centimeters.
- 2 Church of Beato Bernardino Tomitano. Located in the historic center between two owned buildings, it was built towards the end of the seventeenth century as a private oratory by the Tomitano, a noble family of Feltrine origin to which the owner Bernardino da Feltre belonged. The church houses a plaque dedicated to the fallen of all wars and collects the names and images of many of them.
- 3 Church of Santa Maria Maddalena. The origins of this Romanesque-style church date back to around the year 1000. In the first half of the sixteenth century it was sold to the Dominican nuns who established an active monastery there until the suppressions desired by Napoleon. Due to the numerous renovations, only the sacristy and the bell tower remain of the ancient structure. The church is called "the pantheon of opitergines" because some illustrious citizens are buried inside.
- 4 Church of San Giuseppe, via Roma. It is located in the center of the village of the same name. Its origins should be in the sixteenth century and in a document of 1627 it is mentioned as "Chiesiola Nova". Inside there is an eighteenth-century crib.
- 5 Tomitano Palace, via Umberto I. One of the palaces attributable to the fifteenth / sixteenth century that are located in the city.
- 6 Muletti Palace in Porcia and Brugnera, Garibaldi Street. 16th century building with frescoed vestments; on the southwest wall there is a large nineteenth-century sundial.
- 7 Palazzo Porcia and Brugnera, Piazza Castello. It is the sixteenth-century residence of the homonymous family, restored in 2005; it is the periodical seat of small art exhibitions.
- 8 Torresin, Piazza Grande. It originates from the ancient Trevisana gate, through which the road Callalta from Treviso it entered the medieval fortified nucleus. Under the dominion of the Serenissima it was the residence of the mayor. The current building, however, is a reconstruction from the 1930s.
- 9 Palazzo Foscolo, Garibaldi Street. It was built at the end of the sixteenth century by the procurator of San Marco Alessandro Contarini. It is part of the urban core, however it has characteristics similar to those of traditional Venetian villas having been conceived as a holiday palace. Over the centuries it has undergone numerous tampering, but you can still perceive the magnificence described by Jacopo Agostinetti in 1679.
- The main house and the short side of the barn overlook the street, masking the large park behind it. Its original appearance was certainly not as poor as the present one: it was embellished with statues and paved avenues, as well as a fish pond surrounded by a colonnade.
- The main facade of the manor house presents the typical tripartite division of Venetian palaces, setting itself on a large portico with lowered arches. The openings develop vertically but are balanced by the presence of string courses that divide the three levels. At the center of the main floor there is a four-light window with a very elaborate balcony parapet, repeated on the second floor but with a reduced height. The whole is concluded by a notched frame on which the hip roof rests. The palace hosts numerous cultural events and conferences, and is also the permanent home of the "Alberto Martini" art gallery, containing a collection of paintings by the Opitergine painter as well as other painters from the city and the area.
- 10 Villa Wiel. The origin of the villa is to be identified in the suppressions of religious orders carried out since 1766 by the Republic of Venice. In fact, in this place stood a Benedictine convent, begun in 1574 thanks to the donation of land and expanded in the following years for the growth of the monastic community. Nearby there was also a pre-existing church of San Rocco which in 1700, with the translation of the relics of Santa Sabina, was dedicated to the latter.
- In 1769, therefore, the monastery was closed and the structures sold to Francesco Picco who carried out a series of demolitions and transformations aimed at the construction of a patrician villa: on the right the barchessa was added, while the eastern facade was modified with a neoclassical addition by Giannantonio Selva.
- The complex, subject to restrictions since 1991, today appears as a continuous series of volumes which are, from north to south, the barchessa, the manor house, another service building and the oratory: the latter, destroyed during the Great War, was rebuilt in the following decade.
- 11 Villa Bortoluzzi. It was built in the nineteenth century on an artificial embankment of very ancient origin. In fact, someone asserts that the capitolium of the Roman city was present on the site, while later (IX-X century) the church of San Martino was erected, which gave its name to the locality. The sacred building was then renovated and flanked by a monastery, donated in 1274 to the Camaldolese order. The monastic community, apparently made up of both men and women religious residing in separate sections of the monastery, was suppressed around 1780 and the entire property became state property.
- In 1831 the church was demolished and in 1836 the whole complex was sold to the Giacomuzzi family, to then pass to the Revedin. Meanwhile the cloistered complex was destroyed and replaced first by stables, then by the current villa, designed in 1927. It is a complex building also artistically, being characterized by the coexistence of numerous architectural styles: from the neo-Moorish of the west loggia to the neo-Romanesque of the eastern forepart, from the crenellated neo-Gothic of the tower to the Venetian neo-Gothic of the east wing. The park seems to pre-exist the villa as it follows the nineteenth-century romantic tendencies.
- Casón, Via Frassenè (in Piavon). It is an ancient house of commoners, a model of peasant dwelling once very common in the area, dating back hundreds of years ago. The surviving specimen was purchased by the Municipality of Oderzo upon the death of its last inhabitant. It houses an ethnographic museum that collects historical material related to cason collected through donations from the inhabitants of Piavon and the centers of the Sinistra Piave.
Archaeological sites
They are scattered throughout the city; the main ones are:
- 12 Area of the Roman Forum, between via Roma and via Mazzini. These are the remains of a forensic complex of the Augustan age and of a large domus, located at the intersection of the two main city roads, discovered between 1978 and 1995. The remains of a square are preserved (probable measures 40x100 meters), the remains of the civil basilica and an imposing staircase. The area is entirely dominated by a multipurpose building and a suspended square (Piazza del Foro Romano). The entire complex was designed by Toni Follina, the same architect who created the new square.
- 13 Area of the former prisons, Calle Pretoria. It is curiously located inside a well-known restaurant located at the "Torresin" (see). It is made up of finds and masonry from various eras, plus the remains of medieval prisons, which had the troubadour Sordello da Goito as their most illustrious "guest".
- 14 Via dei Mosaici area. It preserves the lower part of two wells, as well as the mosaic flooring of a domus, investigated between 1951 and 1988.
- 15 Area between Piazza Grande and Piazza Castello. It is a tunnel created in the modern building located between the two squares. Crossing it you can see the remains of one of the two main axes of the city and a pavement exposed on the wall
- 16 Via Dalmazia area. It is located in the social cellar. Discovered in 1989, it consists of the lower part of a well
- 17 Archaeological excavations under the Pyramid. One of the various archaeological sites in the city is protected by a glass pyramid structure which, although small in size, vaguely recalls the famous pyramid of the Louvre in Paris. In front of the pyramid, in a building that incorporates some remains of the medieval walls, there is the tourist office.
Events and parties
What to do
Shopping
How to have fun
Where to eat
Average prices
- 1 Quattro Corone Restaurant, Via Dall'Ongaro 7, ☎ 39 0422 717840.
- 2 Pizzeria Al Giardinetto, Contrada Rossa 12, ☎ 39 0422 814748.
- 3 The Lucano, Via dei Mosaici 5, ☎ 39 0422 741189.
- 4 Pizzeria Gli Ingordi, Via Garibaldi 39, ☎ 39 0422 713474.
- 5 Pizzeria Ai Quattro Cantoni, Via Umberto I 38, ☎ 39 0422 712418.
- 6 Al Bersagliere, Via Gabriele D'Annunzio, ☎ 39 347 0620751.
- 7 Al Gambero d'Oro restaurant and pizzeria, Rizzo Square 13, ☎ 39 0422 713715.
- 8 Pizzeria La Campagnola, via Manin 54, ☎ 39 0422 209026.
- 9 Trattoria Al Mercato, Piazza Cavour 12.
39 0422 713465.
39 0422 713465.Farmhouses
- 10 To the Cloisters, Via Pordenone, 16 (in Camino), ☎ 39 0422 814738.
- 11 Al Vecchio Mulino Farm, Via Vecchio Mulino, 17 (in Faè), ☎ 39 0422 853793.
- 12 Gardenal Farm, Via Postumia di Fratta, 21 (in Fratta), ☎ 39 0422 717596.
Where stay
Moderate prices
- 1 Villa Mary hotel, Via Verdi 24 (A star), ☎ 39 0422 717633, @[email protected].
Average prices
- 2 Primhotel hotel, Via Martiri di Cefalonia 13 (Three stars), ☎ 39 0422 713699, fax: 39 0422 713890, @[email protected].
- 3 Al Gallo Hotel, Via Voltejo Capitone, 16 (Three stars), ☎ 39 0422 710142, fax: 39 0422 815664, @info. @ hotelalgallo.it.
- 4 Hotel Residence Villa dei Carpini, Via Comunale di Camino, 84 (Three stars), ☎ 39 0422 712099, fax: 39 0422 712811, @[email protected].
- 5 Gran Casa Hotel, Stefanel Square, 1 (Three stars), ☎ 39 0422 814571, fax: 39 0422 500260, @[email protected].
High prices
- 6 Hotel Postumia Hotel Design, Via Cesare Battisti 2 (Four stars), ☎ 39 0422 713820, fax: 39 0422 200081, @[email protected].
Bed & Breakfast
- 7 Dorigo Iolanda, Via Mantovani, 11, ☎ 39 348 7437396, fax: 39 0422 713472.
- 8 Milanese Maria Luigia, Tomitano Square, 1, ☎ 39 0422 710793.
- 9 Sergio Mugnaini, Via Umberto I °, 26, ☎ 39 0422 814477.
- 10 Sara Andrea, Via Montello 8, ☎ 39 0422 1788264.
Safety
Pharmacies
- 5 Favero, Via Garibaldi, 18, ☎ 39 0422 712241, fax: 39 0422 207790.
- 6 Overcooked, Via Umberto I °, 26, ☎ 39 0422 712221, fax: 39 0422 712492.
- 7 Trevisan, Piazza Grande, 18, ☎ 39 0422 717644, fax: 39 0422 717644. ,
- 8 Municipal, Via Maestri del Commercio, 6, ☎ 39 0422 717215, fax: 39 0422 717215.
- 9 From Magro, Piazza Marco D'Aviano, 7 (in Piavon), ☎ 39 0422 752950, fax: 39 0422 753098.
How to keep in touch
Post office
- 10 Italian post, Via Martini, 13, ☎ 39 0422 209911.
- 11 Italian post, Via Maggiore di Piavon, 44, ☎ 39 0422 752808.
Around
- Portobuffolé - It is one of the centers belonging to the most beautiful villages in Italy.
Itineraries
- Walled cities of Veneto. An itinerary to discover the strongholds and the history of Veneto.
Useful information
- 12 Tourist Information Office, Calle Opitergium, 5, ☎ 39 0422 815251.
