Lusia

On the square of Lusia stands a four-shafted column with figured capitals, which arrived from Constantinople around 1400. It was bound for Venice together with a twin, but the boat carrying them ran aground at the mouth of the Adige and one of the two columns sank: the one that survived, about three and a half metres tall, has stayed here. The name of the village comes instead from the gens Luxia, said by tradition to be related to Caius Marius, and the municipal banner carries the ossuary attributed to Quintus Baebius Cardilliacus, husband of Maria Terzia.

On the twentieth of April 1945 a group of American bombers struck Lusia in order to destroy the road bridge over the Adige and cut off the German retreat: the village was almost entirely razed, along with the town hall, the offices, the archpriest's church and Villa Morosini, of which only the left tower is left standing. Six years later came the flood of the Polesine. When Lusia was rebuilt, it was shifted about three hundred metres further from the Adige for reasons of hydraulic safety, and a phoenix appeared on the coat of arms. In 2022, on the anniversary of the bombing, the village was awarded the silver medal for civil valour.