Mansuè

Mansuè has 4,974 inhabitants in the plain between Oderzo and the Livenza. The name seems to come from the patron saint, San Mansueto — and indeed on the coat of arms there is a lamb, symbol of meekness — but some trace it back to the Latin mansio, the staging post along a Roman road or the farming centre held by the Templars: the order was at home in these parts, between the Tempio di Ormelle and San Giovanni del Tempio at Sacile.

On the Livenza, which was navigable, the Palaeoveneti had raised the casteir, little hills from which they watched the river; under Venice the nearby port of Portobuffolé grew further, above all with the opening of the salt road, which climbed from the Adriatic to northern Europe passing through Basalghelle. When the Austrians closed that port the economy collapsed, and in the twentieth century Mansuè was one of the comuni of the Treviso area that gave the most emigrants. In the parish church, behind the altar of Saint Anthony, it is still written: Pro fratribus nostris absentibus, for our brothers far away.