Camponogara

In 897 the emperor Berengar invested Pietro, bishop of Padua, as count of Piove di Sacco and of the Saccisica, and Camponogara came under him. But the local people rebelled against the power of the clergy, and the emperor Henry IV ended up limiting the bishop's powers by granting the inhabitants the diritto vagantivo: pasture, hunting and fishing on public land. In 1077 a first little church dedicated to the Madonna was built here, which the papal tithe of 1297 calls Ecclesia S. Mariae de campo Nogaria — and it is there that the village's name can be read.

Camponogara means field of walnuts, from the Latin campus and nux, and on the coat of arms there is indeed a walnut tree. The hamlets each say something too: Campoverardo comes from the Germanic Eberhard, perhaps a man-at-arms who arrived between the sixth and seventh centuries; Prozzolo from the Latin praedium, the small farm; Premaore means greater meadow; and the locality of Pila is so called from the husking of rice, which was grown here between the Brenta and the Taglio Nuovissimo, with the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century workshop still in its place. With the Brenta, for that matter, the village has always had to reckon: floods are a constant of its history, and the neighbourhoods built on the fields in recent years have brought them back.