Fossalta di Piave

Fossalta di Piave
Country	Italy
region	Veneto
Metropolitan city	Venice  (VE)
Local name	Fosalta de Piave
Coordinates	45 ° 39 ′  N , 12 ° 31 ′  E Coordinates: 45 ° 39 ′ 0 ″  N , 12 ° 31 ′ 0 ″  E
height	0  m slm
surface	9 km²
Residents	4,149 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	461 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	30020
prefix	0421
ISTAT number	027015
Website	Fossalta di Piave

Fossalta di Piave is a municipality with 4149 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the metropolitan city of Venice in the Veneto region in Italy .

Fossalta is 60 kilometers north of Venice. It covers an area of ​​9 km².

The residents mainly work in viticulture and tourism.

The city gained literary fame because it was here that the young writer Ernest Hemingway was seriously wounded during the battles of the Piave in 1918 during the First World War . A monument has been erected in his honor on the banks of the Piave . On the memorial there is a personal dedication from Hemingway to the region: Io sono un ragazzo del basso Piave (“I am a boy from the Piave plain”).

Web links

Commons : Fossalta di Piave  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Hemingway in Fossalta

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
2. ↑ http://hemingwayswelt.de/hemingway-verliert-seine-unschuld/