Favaro Veneto
Favaro Veneto is a part of the city of Venice located on the mainland (Quarters 8). The town with around 12,000 inhabitants is on the road that leads from Marco Polo Airport to the center of Mestre .
Surname
The place name suggests a forge ( favaro is the Venetian form of fabbro , the blacksmith). It is unclear whether this goes back to the Roman stations (mansiones) on the highways or to one or more forges. In any case, there was a Collegium Fabrum in the neighboring Altinum .
history
The place goes back to the Middle Ages. As it was close to the Venice lagoon , the area was criss-crossed by swamps and wetlands. Only the amelioration , which began in the 14th and 15th centuries and ended in the 20th century, drained the land. The division of the Marzenego was intended to protect against flooding and gain more land. Of the numerous waterways, only the Bazzera is visible today . Most of the land that was won belonged to the Venetian city nobility and was leased in the form of the mezzadria .
The town center began to develop at the intersection of the main roads between today's Via San Donà, Via Triestina, which was formerly called Spigariola, Via Gobbi and Via Altinia (formerly Desariola).
After 1300, part of the area that belonged to the Villa della Comunità di S. Andrea di Favaro, along with the church and the Torre di Dese and that of Texaria (Tessera), came to congregations of the Franciscan Order . The Franciscans were the first to drain swamps, which were feared to pose a risk of various epidemics, especially malaria . Around 1600 small accommodations were built there that were only inhabited from spring to the end of autumn. The residents laid out gardens, grew medicinal herbs and sold them. There was also viticulture , chickens, pigeons and pigs were raised. Much made its way to the markets of Venice, but also to the monasteries there. The Franciscan "Pax et bonum" can still be found today on numerous buildings in the town.
In the 18th century the place was dominated by the rich Venetian family Fornoni. The name refers to forno , the stove, and can possibly be traced back to the 12th century.
From 1819 to 1866 Favaro Veneto was Deputazione comunale under Austrian rule, from 1866 to 1926 Comune (city) under the Kingdom of Italy . From here the towns of Campalto , Tessera , Dese and Ca 'Noghera were ruled, which today form the district n ° 8 of the Comune di Venezia . Antonio Fornoni (1825–1897) was Senator and Mayor of Venice between 1872 and 1875.
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The Palazzo municipale , the town hall, was built in 1873 and significantly enlarged in 1930. It resembles villas of the Veneto . Today it is the seat of the Consiglio di Quartiere , the district council.
Around 1900 Giulio Fornoni was mayor of Favaro Veneto.
At the beginning of the First World War , a significant part of the Fornoni property went to the Scaramuzza family. The headquarters were occupied by the military until 1918. The Fornoni family died out around 1960 and their property passed to the Venetian brotherhood Fatebenefratelli . This in turn was replaced by the Azienda Sanitaria di Venezia , which owns the real estate today. From 2003 the buildings were renovated. Today they are used for agrotourism . There is a museum of the Civiltà Contadina , the rural culture, under the direction of the Associazione Culturale Terra Antica . The organization, founded in Mestre in 1992 , has its headquarters in Via Monte Boè 3 / a in Favaro Veneto. Its president is Gabriele Scaramuzza.
literature
Published in the series I Quaderni di Terra Antica :
- Ettore Aulisio: 1819–1866 - Favaro Veneto ei comuni del Distretto di Mestre durante il Regno del Lombardo Veneto .
- Ettore Aulisio: 1866–1901 - Il Comune di Favaro Veneto dopo l'annessione al Regno d'Italia .
- Ettore Aulisio: 1901–1926 - Favaro Veneto da municipio a frazione .
- Sergio Barizza, Ettore Aulisio: Barche e barcaioli tra terra e acqua , 2002.
- Ettore Aulisio: 1848-'49, Il Comune di Favaro e l'insurrezione di Venezia .
- Sergio Barizza, Ettore Aulisio: 1848-'49, “Con la guerra guerreggiata in loco” I Comuni e gli abitanti di Mestre e di Favaro Veneto e l'insurrezione di Venezia .
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Coordinates: 45 ° 30 ' N , 12 ° 17' E