Musile di Piave

Musile di Piave is a town with 11,599 inhabitants (as of 31 December 2012) in the province of Venice in the Veneto region of Italy.

It covers an area of ​​25 km ². It lies at the northern end of the lagoon of Venice. Capo d' Argine, Caposile, Croce, Lazzaretto, Millepertiche and Trezze are districts of the municipality. It belongs to the Area Geografica Bacino del Fiume Piave Idrografico.

The neighboring communities are Fossalta di Piave, Jesolo, Meolo, Quarto d' Altino, San Dona di Piave and Venice. The main town to the seat of the municipal administration is located only 2 km from San Dona.

History

By today's municipal area was the Via Annia from Adria to Aquileia. Recently, at Ponte Catena remains of a Roman bridge were found. Roman finds from local excavations are kept in the town hall and in middle school. To 836 the term for a settlement on the bank of the Piave Musile is occupied for the first time. The oldest Christian church was probably dedicated to St. Donatus. Musile belonged to the diocese of Torcello, Croce was subordinate to the Patriarch of Aquileia. 1260 the area of Treviso was slammed his tenure in 1291 could only reassert the Patriarch of Aquileia. In the 14th century included large part of the territory of the Venetian Foscari family, later the Malipiero.

In the 16th and 17th centuries resulted in the regulation of the Republic of Venice to the water flow to greater stagnation of the site, which could only be changed by melioration after the unification of Italy. In the Napoleonic era was Musile community.

After the defeat of the Italian army at Caporetto in World War I was Musile on the battle line and was almost completely destroyed in June 1918. The reconstruction of the present village was in the twenties of the 20th century. 1919, the neo-Gothic parish church was built.

Weblink

  • Official Website
  • Page at Comuni italiani
  • Side at Italia ital in dettaglio. / Engl.
  • Literature on Musile di Piave in the OPAC of the Servizio National Library System
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