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 An illustrious past
The Municipality offers a wealth of historical attractions: the charming hamlet of Lio Piccolo, which has been inhabited since the early 11th century and whose buildings around the square were erected between 1600 and 1700, alongside its bell tower, from 1900.
The 14th century “convent” in Mesole;
Saccagnana’s elegant palazzotto, an original example of a Veneto-style villa located in a lagoon setting (16th century);
the gates of Cavallino – with the handsome building that once served to collect duties from those crossing the basin, now transformed into a charming inn – connecting the Sile Rive (once the Piave) with the lagoon and that for centuries constituted a compulsory route for water traffic to and from Venice.
Cavallino’s historical church, which was completed in the mid-18th century;
Treporti with its old centre and two characteristic bell towers;
the many examples of rural buildings and houses with their characteristic “canino alla vallesana”;
the Old Forte, an unusual Austrian fortress built in the mid-1800s and the telemetric towers characterising the landscape along the Pordelio Canal;
the coastal defence system, composed of various military buildings (batteries, barracks, etc.), built before World War One.
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