Patron saint festival In 284 days
Saint James and the River Navigation Museum
📅 Every year, on 25 July
Battaglia Terme celebrates Saint James on 25 July, in the new church dedicated to him.
It is the smallest comune in the province by area, and it is made almost entirely of water. The Battaglia canal brings the waters of the Bacchiglione here from Padua; in the middle of the village a triple lock, the Arco di Mezzo, gives birth to the Vigenzone canal; and the Rialto canal passes underneath the Battaglia canal through the culvert known as the botte del Pigozzo. The navigable canal, dug around 1200, brought the freight traffic with it: the village has a museum of river navigation.
Before the canals, though, there was the water that comes out hot. On the hill of Sant'Elena stood the thermal grottoes and a hospice for pilgrims, and the oldest mention of the place is a bequest of Speronella Delesmanini of 1199 which set a condition on handing over the land: that a lodging for pilgrims be built on part of it. The word «Terme» entered the name only in 1925, by royal decree; six years earlier the frazione of San Pietro Montagnon had left to be a comune of its own, today Montegrotto Terme.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Battaglia Terme, but an easy day trip away.
chiesa di San Marco 📍 Rovereto · 5.3 km The parish church of Marco di Rovereto, documented from 1180 and rebuilt after the First World War. Biotopo Lavini di Marco 📍 Rovereto · 6.8 km The landslide from Monte Zugna, with dinosaur trackways discovered in 1990 and two small lakes. chiesa di San Floriano 📍 Rovereto · 8.5 km The old mother church of Lizzana, parent of Rovereto's churches, with two sixteenth-century frescoes on the façade. Fondazione Opera Campana dei Caduti 📍 Rovereto · 9.4 km Rovereto's bell, cast from the bronze of every belligerent's cannon. sacrario militare di Castel Dante 📍 Rovereto · 9.4 km The First World War ossuary on the hill above Rovereto, with about twenty thousand fallen of several nations. Castel Lizzana 📍 Rovereto · 9.0 km The scant remains of the Castelbarco castle above Lizzana, destroyed by the Venetians in 1439, in the memorial grounds.