Castello di Godego

Castello di Godego
Country	Italy
region	Veneto
province	Treviso  (TV)
Local name	Godego
Coordinates	45 ° 42 '  N , 11 ° 52'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 42 '0 "  N , 11 ° 52' 0"  E
height	51  m slm
surface	17.98 km²
Residents	7,273 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density	405 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	31030
prefix	0423
ISTAT number	026013
Popular name	Godigesi
Patron saint	Virgin Mary's birth
Website	www.comune.castellodigodego.tv.it

Castello di Godego is a northern Italian municipality ( comune ) in the province of Treviso in Veneto . The municipality is located about 28 kilometers west-northwest of Treviso , about 12 kilometers southeast of Bassano del Grappa and borders directly on the province of Padua . The Muson flows through the community and the village .

history

The place was first mentioned in a document on May 28, 972: Otto I gave Abraham, Bishop of Freising, some possessions between Vicenza and Treviso , including around Castello di Godego. After the rule of various feudal families, the settlement came under the rule of the Republic of Venice in 1379 , which, with a few small interruptions, lasted until its fall in 1797 and gave the place a peaceful development. In the following years of the Napoleonic occupation there was looting and pillage.

From 1815 Castello di Godego belonged to the newly founded Kingdom of Lombardy-Veneto and was thus under Austrian rule. At the end of the Wars of Liberation, with the Peace of Vienna in 1866, Veneto fell to Italy. During the First World War , the northern Veneto became a war zone and suffered considerable damage until 1918. The consequences of the war and the economic hardship led to increased emigration in the interwar period.

During the Second World War , Northern Italy was occupied by the Germans. On their retreat at the end of the war, parts of the 29th Panzer Grenadier Division committed the massacre of San Martino di Lupari on April 29, 1945 . They took hostages, tortured and murdered them, and committed looting and destruction just before capitulating to the British 8th Army in northern Italy . In San Martino di Lupari, 5 km southwest of Castello di Godego, 73 civilians were murdered.

Attractions

Between 1820 and 1842, Villa Frida was built by the Moresco family next to the older Villa Zorzi . The furnishings include wall paintings by Noè Bordignon from the second half of the century, and the salon on the upper floor contains remarkable Art Nouveau decorations. Villa Frida became famous in 1900 through the marriage of Maria Moresco to Ferruccio Macola in 1900. The bourgeois-liberal Ferruccio Macola, founder of the Genoese daily Il Secolo XIX , later publisher of the Gazzetta di Venezia , was friends with the socialist Felice Cavallotti , whom he Accidentally killed in a duel in 1898.

traffic

The municipality lies with a train station on the Trento – Venice railway line . The former Strada Statale 245 Castellana (today: regional road) from Venice via Castelfranco Veneto to Rosà leads through the town.

Community partnerships

Castello di Godego maintains an intra-Italian partnership with the municipality of Boves in the province of Cuneo and a partnership with the French municipality of Labastide-Saint-Pierre in the Tarn-et-Garonne department .

Web links

Commons : Castello di Godego  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Website of the Villa Frida [1]

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.