PORTO TOLLE

Porto Tolle stands on very recent territory. In the early 1600s, the Venetians, worried by the enormous amount of debris brought by the Po that risked silting up the lagoon, built the Taglio di Po at Taglio di Porto Viro, a massive hydraulic work that diverted the river from Taglio di Po into the Goro basin via a 12-mile channel. This channel caused some lands to emerge that the Venetian Republic assigned to certain Venetian noblemen. This is why, in today’s municipality of Porto Tolle, there are places named after famous Venetian nobles, like the Venier, Tiepolo, Vendramin and Farsetti families, who, as well as being responsible for land reclamation, also built large manor houses in these areas that were used for their summer retreats and hunting trips.

In 1797, with the fall of the Venetian Republic, the territory passed to the Cisalpine Republic with the Treaty of Campoformio and with the Treaty of Vienna in 1815 it became part of Veneto again under Austrian rule. This lasted until 1866 when the whole of Veneto became part of the Kingdom of Italy. In 1849, on the night of 10th August, Angelo Brunetti, known as ‘Ciceruacchio’, was shot in the Cà Tiepolo floodplain together with his two sons and five other patriots.

In 1867, the municipality, which was previously named San Nicolò, took the name of Porto Tolle.