Patron saint festival In 76 days
Saint Thomas Becket, patron of the land of Goffredo Parise
📅 Every year, on 29 December
Ponte di Piave celebrates Saint Thomas Becket on 29 December.
In June 1918 the Austrians tried to cross the Piave right here, along the road towards Treviso, and were driven back at Fagarè, where the ossuary now stands. The river was in flood and would not let them through: from this stretch of water comes the best-known line of the Leggenda del Piave, the one where the river murmurs that the foreigner shall not pass.
The same river, on 4 November 1966, broke the embankment between Negrisia and the town and flooded everything. During the rescue Eros Perinotto was killed, a soldier on a tank that plunged into the chasm left by a collapsed bridge: there is a monument to him in Piazza Garibaldi. Around the village they grow Raboso, still partly on the old bellussera trellises.
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Castellana Caves 📍 Castellana Grotte · 1.8 km A 3,348-meter karst cave system mapped in 1938, noted for its 60-meter-deep skylight and dazzling white formations. Santuario di Maria Santissima Regina del Mondo 📍 Monopoli · 6.4 km The sanctuary in the Antonelli district of Monopoli, rebuilt as a vow for the town's safety and consecrated in 1950. Rione Monti 📍 Alberobello · 13 km The 1,030 trulli of Alberobello's larger quarter, laid dry-stone to dodge a tax. Trullo Sovrano 📍 Alberobello · 12 km With walls reaching 2.70 metres in thickness, the Trullo Sovrano is the supreme example of dry-stone architecture. Fondazione Museo Pino Pascali 📍 Polignano a Mare · 13 km Puglia's only permanent contemporary art museum, set in a former slaughterhouse overlooking the sea in Polignano. Chiesa di Sant'Antonio Abate 📍 Fasano · 17 km The Observant friars' church in Fasano, with its dome, onion-spired bell tower and frescoed 1600s cloister.