March 10, 2008.
CAMPOVERARDO.
A village, a junction of four roads, the parish church, a chapel that, very nice and for the three altarpieces a small cathedral, like all countries in the area grew hurry outskirts of town, most recently a square that is not the center: this is now Campoverardo. Are approximately 1100 residents, many new faces from elsewhere, mostly well integrated within a short time.
In tracing the history of this small country, not even marked on tourist maps, as we see behind us, beyond what it was not cheap, but there is a great story! Know them all (people, art and culture), we have a special place in his corner better.
ORIGINS --- Campoverardo go deep roots in the centuries. After the fall of the Roman Empire in 330 AD followed the Dark Ages. Lowered down the barbarians from the north, without laws like wild beasts sowed death and destruction wherever he went, in our land Berardo incited by their leader. The Venetian to ruin found refuge in the islands of the lagoon and the possibility of life lived by hunting and fishing. These are the first beats of Venice, a city of water, and museums throughout the city.
Around AD one thousand monks arrived in these parts of S. Hilary order and at the expense of the Venetian Republic, in order to protect water and land lapped by the lagoon on this side with land reclamation. Gambarare was at the nearest settlement, the same order of monks, the same treatment, not unlike the end. This order of monks for centuries no longer exists, their Mother House in Venice was located where today stands the Church of Our Lady of Health, and the great monastery of St. Hilary has been the Gothic cloister, superlative really between the Grand Canal and the bridge that leads to the same church, with views across the basin of S. Marco.
The Republic was very strict when it comes to water, and for those who tamper with or polluted was the death penalty by hanging in the square in San Marco. The stage had been erected between the two columns, that of St. Theodore protector of Venice before San Marco, the other with the lion of St. Mark's on the top, more monster lion, lurking with eyes severe and threatening towards the sea. It fell from the balcony of the Doge Doge's Palace to the way to run, raising his right hand, while the smallest of the five bells of the campanile, or renghiera evil, accompanied the ceremony with his complaint. That is a Venetian "doc" or rather never go never spent walking between the two columns.
on firmer ground here, and made fertile, As the monks built a church, a small monastery, a cemetery, where his holy Quirico street ends in the open countryside. And until the sixties of last century incorporated the old house was demolished (from Broin), there was still the morgue of the brothers, remember to use sink, with a large marble stone at the bottom, and the small round window above , a boundary brick, lit the darkness.
At the same time those monks on the spot, were not to be just over half the size of the cemetery area, called a group of pastors from Vicenza. From the mountains Berici wintered here from September to March with their flocks, were named Buddy, stable and had the land, about forty people on the first core. Already
the Republic was really big and powerful, now more than six centuries of history, dated his birth in 430 AD according to the first and oldest document kept in the State Archives in Venice. It is written today is born in Venice, but it is a contract of sale between private parties and harvests. This archive, the largest in the world, with headquarters in the former convent the Frari church, keep the documents of the History of the Republic (laws, deeds and misdeeds, war, the Turks the most bitter enemies, victories, and even cheerful stories of events experienced) collected in folders for eighty-seven km until the end of the nineteenth century . The archives of the Vatican, the second in the world, does not reach the fifty kilometers. (It is a dialect word Frari scrawl, but the first and last syllable of the Friars Minor, those letters.)
grew over the years the village, the Companion is divided into two branches, one of the el pastor 'the other Pastoret, their nicknames, but I would be cautious in stating how the current descendants Companion. After all those were poor people, illiteracy, civil zero, arms or soldiers working for the wars, and other newcomers shared the same misery and nicknames. The written history of ancient and noble but includes large families, big personalities, leaders, wealth and civilization, art and high culture, all the beauty of which we enjoy today. Viridis
Campus, Golf Verardo, ie green field, core housing, the place to live together safe from robbers, the town core of the first communities; Premaor, greater prairie, the place where to take the cattle to pasture; Brogilus Prozolo, the field Business enclosed by physical boundaries, hence the "orchard" in our dialect.
Campoverardo: according to other scholars that the name derives from Berardo, the leader, namely the "field of Berardo" seeded here massacre. To me, logically, that instead the first definition, not to mention a barbarian. Campus Life meeting and, in the manner of "Fields" squares of Venice.
1405. Venice is a lesson to the Duchy of Carrara and the salt charged the owners of Padua. The fact Carraresi during periods of heavy rain pipe, without brakes, the waters from Euganean and the city, through the channel Piovego, in the Brenta to Stra. The great river was then and still like banks without the stretch of our coast, with flooding and severe lying sowing death and destruction along its path, flooding and high water in Venice, at times dangerous due to the lunar phases. It was a way by Carraresi cast serious crisis for the City of Venice.
Moreover, the Republic took its countermeasures constructing an embankment facing the lagoon, about a kilometer long island of gas today, across from the prison of Santa Maria Maggiore. In this way, divided into several layers hindered the full impact of the wave to get into the Grand Canal on one side, the ancient and natural mouth of the Brenta the negative side of river. Without the Brenta, the positive side, today the Grand Canal is a canal.
The Council of Ten with the Duke called in That year Paolo Savelli, Baron Roman blinds to conduct ground troops to the conquest of Padua and was the war. The great Venetian masters and commanders were "homo de mar", commander of the galleys.
We fought a lot in Oriago Time, the border between the Republic and the Duchy, where the main road of the Riviera at the traffic light at the corner of Via Sabbioni there is still the old boundary pillars, the only sign left. There were many dead on both sides, the defeat of the army fell Carrara, after which the Savelli was a walk to the gates of Padua. You get there around the city, besieged it, lack of food and malnutrition plague broke out.
So it was the end of the Duchy of Carrara, as well as the Savelli died of fever on the outskirts of Padova. In Venice, the Frari church Savelli Baron reminds us of the first equestrian monuments, erected by the Serenissima to their leaders in the churches of the city. The territory of the Lower
Padovano eventually became the territory of the Republic, the water control passed to Venice, the Magistrate of the water, so it was no longer requires the presence of the monks of St. Hilary in our area. Soon, no longer subsidized, about four hundred years after their arrival, they retired to Venice in the parent company of Health, and finally the few remaining were annexed to the Benedictines. We
a step back centuries, Rome at the beginning of the empire (30 BC) with the first emperor Octavian. After a long and dangerous war, in short, he came to the lordship of the whole peninsula, including Veneto: Italy power, and the Roman administration.
Once dissolved the army Ottaviano distributed the lands of the north to his soldiers, veterans, the Po Valley, for centuries, and gave also the agro Padua in our land had ramifications (which are intertwined at a right angle) to the sea. The centurion was here named Print, almost illegible name on a stone vintage, found locally in the sixties after the Second World War when plowing with tractors became big deep
During the Empire, the Romans built on the lagoon, less than a mile as the crow flies from the installation of the monks of St. Hilary, to the south and many centuries before, what people commonly called the Castle, whence the name "Castellano via" the road that linked together and still Camponogara with pit. Maybe he has lost his memory, but the Hydrographic and Topographic Map of Agro Bassso Patavino, dating from the tenth century, there refreshes: Castellum, usually as in the old maps.
On the other hand, in my research, I have not found any other documents that confirm it. Now there are two hypothesis. Was indeed a private castle of a noble family, would not be lost, or at least some other writings confirm his presence. But no, for him there is now a flat field of agriculture.
not be excluded, rather it was one of those fortresses castrum, as a vox populi that clear map come down to us, but the "Lapis vicarius" signed in our case "Print", confirmed this. These forts prevented the barbarian invasions, we grew to defend the boundaries of the Roman Empire to the sea, it happened in the desert for the countries of northern Africa, bordering the Mediterranean. So power
Rome Italy transformed into power Mediterranean, and mistress of the sea that called it "Mare Nostrum", after the three Punic Wars lasted over a hundred years and ended with "Cartago delenda est", Carthage was destroyed.
In the event of threats and invasions on the towers of the great fires were lit, visible at a distance of thirty miles, more or less distant from each other but always very eyes. With the fall of
then the abandonment, decay, ruin the flow for centuries by inhabitants of the poor to build their homes. It seems that the first group of our church (1180) was made with such materials (stones erratic), as has been noted with the restoration eighties of the last century. And the monks to their convent Hilary were no exception.
End of the Old.
The modern part begins with the appointment of the first parish priest of Campoverardo, with a splash of the Diocese of Aquileia XXVI Nov / is 1667, and ends with the book "The Marquis is Manfredini says." Ready to be printed sleep for two years the book, and waiting to be published in search of sponsors. James Giantin
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