FOSSALTA DI PIAVE

Fossalta, located on a ford of the Piave River with easy links to Altino and Oderzo, was also important in ancient times. Ovens were concentrated here, and the bread baked was loaded on boats and shipped to Venice. It has few relics of the past due to the devastation of World War I (Hemingway also fought and was wounded here).

There is a small ethnographic museum.

Worth Visiting

  • Villa Bortolotti, Belloni, Marini, known as “Canthus” (19th century)

  • Villa Manfredi De Blasiis Franceschini (18th century)

  • Villa Rossetto (19th century)

  • Villa Tolotti – Silvestri (18th century) with the features of Venetian buildings.

  • Hemingway’s Stele. On the night of 8th July 1918, Hemingway was seriously wounded in the knee as well as suffering shrapnel injuries all over his body at Fossalta di Piave.

  • Baptistery, the Peace Monument, commissioned by the ‘Ragazzi del ’99’ (Italian conscripts of 1917) on the banks of the ‘sacred river’ Piave, was inaugurated on 19th June 1983.

Don’t Miss

The historical and cultural route dedicated to Ernest Hemingway. This is an eleven-kilometre itinerary along the banks of the Piave River and its inland area, where sixteen panels have been placed as landmarks on the route taken by a young Hemingway during the First World War.