Patron saint festival In 269 days
Saints Hermagoras and Fortunatus, patrons of Fossalta di Piave
📅 Every year, on 12 July
Fossalta di Piave celebrates Saints Hermagoras and Fortunatus on 12 July.
In 1493 Venice had the Fossetta dug, a canal running from the edge of the lagoon at Portegrandi to where piazza Matteotti now stands, widening there into a small harbour: that harbour at once became the new centre of the village, with houses and shops around it. The canal served above all to supply Venice, and milk and bread passed along it every day — the bread because the bakers had been moved out of the city for fear of fires.
To protect the lagoon from the silt of the Piave, between 1534 and 1543 the Venetian Republic built the Argine di San Marco along the right bank, higher than the one opposite: from then on most of the floods went to the other side. After Caporetto, in the autumn of 1917, the front reached the Piave and Fossalta was evacuated; among those who fought here were the ragazzi del '99, called up at eighteen. In 1981 they came back for a national gathering, raised a monument to peace on the Argine Regio, and the comune made every one of them an honorary citizen.
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chiesa di San Liberale 📍 Belluno · 18 km A very old little church on the hill of Pedeserva, in Belluno, with a stone-slab roof and a crypt. chiesa dei Santi Gervasio e Protasio 📍 Belluno · 19 km A thirteenth-century church in Belluno divided in two by a wall, between the faithful and the enclosed nuns. chiesa di Sant'Aronne 📍 Belluno · 19 km The parish church of Cusighe, in Belluno, with an altarpiece by Girolamo Denti and a Last Supper by Paris Bordon. chiesa di San Pietro Apostolo 📍 Belluno · 19 km The nineteenth-century parish church of Sargnano, in Belluno, built over almost thirty years, with a Besarel tabernacle. chiesa di Santo Stefano 📍 Belluno · 20 km The Servites' Gothic church in Belluno, in white and red stone, with Brustolon's angels and a 24-hour clock. chiesa di San Rocco 📍 Belluno · 20 km Belluno's votive church, born of the plague of 1530, in Castellavazzo stone, with a canvas by Gaspare Diziani.