| San Donà di Piave | ||
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| State | Italy | |
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| Region | Veneto | |
| Territory | Venetian plain | |
| Altitude | 3 m above sea level | |
| Surface | 78.88 km² | |
| Inhabitants | 41.830 (year 2014) | |
| Name inhabitants | Sandonatesi | |
| Prefix tel | 39 0421 | |
| POSTAL CODE | 30027 | |
| Time zone | UTC 1 | |
| Patron | Madonna of the Rosary, Santa Maria delle Grazie, San Donato d'Arezzo | |
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San Donà di Piave is a city of Veneto.
To know
It ranks ninth among the most populous cities in Veneto; it constitutes the attraction point of an urban area that totals about 65,000 inhabitants with the centers of Musile di Piave, Noventa di Piave is Fossalta di Piave.
Geographical notes
The city and its territory are located in the low plain north of the Venetian Lagoon. Originally this area extended entirely along the left bank of the Piave. The hydraulic interventions carried out by the Serenissima starting from the sixteenth century, most recently the diversion of the river course carried out in 1664, have divided the area into two sectors separated by the Piave Nuovo. It is 37 km from Venice, 16 from Jesolo, 27 from Caorle, 4 from Noventa di Piave.
Background
Vestiges of a Neolithic settlement and significant traces of centuriation and the presence of an articulated road network centered on the Via Annia they suggest that the area was inhabited both in prehistoric times and in Roman times. During the early Middle Ages the fate of the area was linked to the city of Heraclia, bishopric and first capital of the Duchy of Venice. After the year 1000 two villages were formed: San Donato and Mussetta, subject to the Patriarchate of Aquileia and subsequently affected by the events of the Ezzelini family between the 11th and 13th centuries.
In 1250 the territory suffered a catastrophic flood of the Piave, which diverted the course of the river, moving the chapel of San Donato from the left bank to the right. This deviation of the riverbed led to the separation of the church from its reference territory, which began to be called San Donato de qua de la Piave to distinguish it from the one adjacent to the chapel: San Donato beyond the Piave (the current Musile di Piave).
During the 13th and 14th centuries the Sandonatese territory found itself in a strategic position between the Marca Trevigiana and the Republic of Venice and for this reason it was subjected to looting and devastation, which ended with the occupation of the area by the troops of Sigismondo di Luxembourg (1412-1413) and the destruction of Mussetta.
After the war between the Serenissima and the Kingdom of Hungary, the Republic encouraged the development of the territory by offering tax exemptions to farmers willing to relocate. Venice, in fact, was directly interested in the economic recovery of the San Donà area, as much of the municipal area was state property.
During the modern age the Republic of Venice he started a series of reclamation interventions in the Lower Piave, and assigned an official (the steward) to manage the Sandonatese territory. In 1468 urgent financial needs led the Republic to sell the Gastaldia di San Donà in emphyteusis. Assigned in 1475 to Francesco Marcello and Angelo Trevisan, the Gastaldia subsequently became the private possession of the Trevisan family alone. The public powers were entrusted to an official appointed by the Doge, the Ducal Vicar, who had the obligation to take an oath of loyalty to the Republic and to reside in San Donà. The first Vicar, Antonio Lupo, was installed in 1476 by Doge Pietro Mocenigo. In the same year, the construction of a new church was started, dedicated to Santa Maria delle Grazie and consecrated in July 1480.
The growth and development of the urban center was initially difficult, above all due to the unstable hydraulic balance of the territory. In order to preserve the lagoon from the periodic floods of the Piave, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the Republic of Venice promoted a series of hydraulic works in the area, diverting the course of the rivers.
It was part of the Lombard-Veneto Kingdom from 1815; during the Austrian domination the urban center was enriched with palaces, commercial buildings and a new Cathedral, built between 1838 and 1841. With the annexation of Veneto to the Kingdom of Italy, new reclamation works involved the Sandonatese area, marking the environmental metamorphosis of the territory and increasing the productivity of the area, rail and waterbus connection services were established, the road network was expanded and industries and services were opened for the population.
The impact of the First World War on San Donà was devastating. Following the breakthrough of the Italian lines at Caporetto, the Italian army withdrew and reorganized on the new front along the course of the Piave. The long months of trench warfare began on November 13, 1917, culminating in the Battle of the Solstice. In the autumn of 1918 the Italian army launched the decisive offensive against the Austro-Hungarian positions and on 31 October 1918 San Donà returned to Italian hands. The balance of the long months of fighting was heavy: the city infrastructures were completely destroyed and most of the architectural and artistic heritage had been irretrievably lost.
The first post-war period was characterized by the complete reconstruction of the city and the restoration of socio-economic activities, of the inter-municipal road network and of the railway service. With the Second World War in 1944 the city was subjected to several bombings: during the air raids the Verdi Theater and the Umberto I Hospital were destroyed. On April 25, 1945, in the presence of six thousand German soldiers, the insurrection of the city was proclaimed and on the same day San Donà was freed.
San Donà presents itself today as the nerve center of transport infrastructures between Veneto and Friuli, a crossroads between the industrial development areas of the Treviso area, and the tourist areas of Cavallino-Treporti, Jesolo, Heraclea is Caorle, an expanding city with some of the highest population growth rates in the region.
How to orient yourself
San Donà di Piave: full screen map.Neighborhoods
In addition to the city, its territory also includes the towns of Calvecchia, Chiesanuova, Cittanova, Fiorentina, Fossà, Grassaga, Isiata, Mussetta di Sopra, Palazzetto, Passarella and Santa Maria di Piave.
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
San Donà di Piave tollbooth - Noventa on the A4 motorway Serenissima
San Donà di Piave tollbooth - On the train
- Railway station. It has its own station, which bears the name San Donà di Piave - Jesolo as it also serves the nearby city, on the line Venice - Trieste.
How to get around
By public transport
The bus (like the car) is used exclusively to reach the slightly more distant places.
By taxi
Although it is possible to travel by taxi, generally only foreigners use this means.
By bike
One of the most used means of transport are bicycles, which are used both by children and people of the third age.
What see
- 1 Cathedral of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Piazza Duomo. In neoclassical style, it was built in the second half of the fifteenth century and rebuilt between 1838 and 1841 by Giovanni Battista Meduna on a project by Antonio Diedo. The building, severely damaged during the First World War, underwent a reconstruction work carried out by Giuseppe Torres between 1919 and 1923. The facade is characterized by an imposing pronaos surmounted by the statues of the three theological virtues and supported by eight fluted columns of the Corinthian order.
- 2 Church of San Carlo Borromeo (in Chiesanuova). In neo-Romanesque style, the building was raised to a design by the architect Giuseppe Torres to replace the pre-existing church built in 1696 and destroyed during the First World War. The internal decorative apparatus includes works by the painter Juti Ravenna.
- Church of Santa Maria Assunta. The church, built between 1966 and 1967 on a project by the architect Angelo Polesello, is located in the Mussetta di Sotto district and preserves carved stone finds from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It was one of the first churches in Italy built following the indications of the Constitution on the Liturgy of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council.
- 3 Town Hall Building. The Town Hall was built following the Great War on the rubble of the previous building and inaugurated on June 3, 1923. The Palace, designed by Camillo Puglisi Allegra, closes the west side of Piazza Indipendenza with a 50 meter front. The façade is decorated with pilasters, festoons, semi-columns and moving entablatures; the central body, dominated by the clock, is characterized by the presence of the municipal coat of arms.
- Building of the Reclamation Consortium. Designed by Camillo Puglisi Allegra, it defines the north side of Piazza Indipendenza with its arcades. The palace, built between 1927 and 1929, has an elevated central body that juts out from the side wings. The façade is marked by Ionic pilasters of the giant order, female heads and paterae with floral ornamental motifs.
- Palazzo of the Savings Bank of Venice. It was built in the second half of the 1920s to a design by Camillo Puglisi Allegra in order to house the headquarters of the Banca Mutua Popolare di San Donà. The arcaded building marks the intersection between Corso Trentin and Via Battisti in front of Piazza Indipendenza. The façades of the building have a very rich sculptural ornamentation made up of festoons, baskets, cornucopias and shields.
- Villa Ancillotto (18th century).
- Victory Bridge. Built between 1921 and 1922, it was inaugurated on 12 November 1922 by Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia-Aosta. Damaged by the bombings of 1944, it underwent a chromatic restoration in the 2000s by Ettore Sottsass.
- Rocker Bridge. Located in Caposile, the Ponte a Bilanciere is an opening bridge that connects the banks of the Piave Vecchia (border between the municipalities of San Donà and Musile di Piave) a few meters upstream from the confluence with the Taglio del Sile. Built after the First World War (1927), it remained in service until 1957, when the current road crossing on the Piave Vecchia was inaugurated. The bridge was built in such a way as to allow river traffic through what was then an important inland navigation route. The mechanism that made it possible to open and close the bridge is constituted by a system of counterweights through which the two platforms of the central span were manually raised. [50] Due to its shape it has been compared to the famous Langlois Bridge, a recurring subject in the works of Van Gogh.
- Novigrad drainage plant. Inaugurated in 1903 and rebuilt after the Great War, it is the oldest water lifting system for reclamation still active in the Lower Piave. The drainage plant is located in an area below the sea level near the hamlet of Cittanova.
Events and parties
What to do
Shopping
In the center, in "Piazza della Libertà", there are various shops for personal purchases. All over you can find bars, ice cream shops, pastry shops.
How to have fun
Where to eat
Moderate prices
- To the boot, Via Gorizia, ☎ 39 0421 560610.
- Kristall Pizzeria Restaurant, Corso Trentin 16, ☎ 39 0421 560446.
- Small restaurant, Via Gorizia 9, ☎ 39 0421 331924.
- Pizzeria Aurora, Via Sabbioni 1, ☎ 39 392 6867162.
- Hostaria Al Bateo, Via Carozzani 16, ☎ 39 0421 221389.
- 1 At the Belvedere, Via Garibaldi 67, ☎ 39 0421 51170.
- Pizzeria Mamasita, Via Carlo Vizzotto 57, ☎ 39 0421 40438.
- La Vite pizza restaurant, Via Pralongo 50, ☎ 39 0421 54459.
Where stay
Average prices
- 1 Forte del 48 Hotel Restaurant.
Safety
How to keep in touch
Post office
- 4 Italian post, Piazza Attilio Rizzo, 68, ☎ 39 0421 335911.
- 5 Italian post, Via del Concilio, 20, ☎ 39 0421 53168.
- 6 Italian post, Via Monsignor Luigi Saretta, 8, ☎ 39 0421 41613.
Around
Itineraries
- Walled cities of Veneto. An itinerary to discover the strongholds and the history of Veneto.
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