Top 4 Natural Monuments around Fontanelle

a clear octagon in the middle of the plain: outside a always useful fountain. Inside, the surprise of a modern church that encloses a millenary history, which you can find described next to the door. Santa Maria in Palù or della fontanella, is a protector of those with vision problems: this explains the evangelical citation of the blind man from the pool of Siloam, which is found inside, behind the altar

The Grassaga, a canal of the Lower Piave, "is born" near Roncadelle: the spring water seems to come out of this pipe that connects it to the Bidoggia canal, which in this photo is beyond the houses and the road that runs alongside it: via Bidoggia di Roncadelle, in fact, which then becomes via Postumia di Faè.

Gravel segment that from Salettuol crosses the Codibugnolo Naturalistic Oasis, a floodplain area of 24 hectares located along the course of the Piave in the central stretch of the river between the municipalities of Spresiano and Ponte di Piave. The oasis, due to its particular geomorphological conformation and the biological varieties present, offers an ideal educational reservoir, which is why the Piavenire Naturalistic Route was born, conceived by the local Legambiente section to demonstrate, with maximum evidence, the richness natural that still finds refuge in the remnants of riparian forest. Once the route is reversed, you take the Strada delle Grentine towards Spresiano.

The old name of the Meolo river is Pero. This is why, in these parts, river and place names blend together

Sources of the Grassaga river near the SP 7 in the Roncadelle hamlet in the municipality of Ormelle in the province of Treviso.

The sources of the Meolo river are about 200 m away. from the bridge, unfortunately it was not possible to approach them because they were fenced off. It originates east of Breda di Piave, in the Campagne area, and flows for about twenty kilometers in the provinces of Treviso and Venice, crossing, among others, San Biagio di Callalta and Monastery of Treviso. At the town of the same name, the river bifurcates: the new main axis, maintaining the name of the Meolo river, heads south and flows shortly afterwards into the Vallio; the historic course, called the Meolo flowway, moves towards the south-east and its waters flow partly into the Colatore Principale reclamation canal and partly, by means of a structure that bypasses the previous watercourse, into the Fossetta canal. This situation is the result of the reclamation that affected the Lower Piave and was completed in the 1930s. Along its course there are country residences built by Venetian families between the 15th and the 19th centuries as well as the former Abbey of Santa Maria di Pero

The church of S. Maria della Fontanella was built in the place where centuries ago, I don't know when, a convent of monks stood. Let's not forget that it was a short distance from the Church of the "Knights of the Temple" of which the small village Tempio keeps the memory. This convent sank underground due to an earthquake. “It sank and how? Because? Because the area was and still is impregnated with water. The municipality is Fontanelle, a name that reveals the presence of many water sources. It was swampy terrain; for this, I think, the convent and the church were swallowed up. The church was called for this reason: "Santa Maria del Palù". But now the area is cultivated in a superlative form; and therefore it is good to call it "Santa Maria della Fontanella". Under the altar stood and still stands a fountain that gave and which gives its clear and fresh water: a symbol of that water of which Jesus spoke: "whoever is thirsty, come to me and drink". Don Emilio Girelli had the good idea of reviving that past, the ruins of which are five or six meters deep, as far as I have heard. Don Emilio, therefore, had the current and pretty octagonal church built. And my mother, she told me, was so eager to attend the inauguration on March 25, 1924. But she couldn't: I was in her womb. I was born on March 27, two days later. This is why I consider it a bit my little church. And my mother who knows how fervently she will have prayed for me, not yet born. And Our Lady was good to her and to me. I was parish priest in Jafa di Nazareth, a suburb of Nazareth, for forty-two years. I love to attribute this grace to my mother's prayers: and so Our Lady took me from S. Maria della Fontanella to her village where she truly received the announcement of the archangel Gabriel. I also want to remember that Jafa di Nazaret, according to tradition, is the native town of S. Giovanni and S. Giacomo, patron saint of the Church of Colfrancui, where I was baptized on March 31, 1924. I have seen and heard that S. Maria delle Fontanella is very venerated. I always saw it full of fresh flowers and candles. I remember that when I was little, under the age of five, many people came to our house, to be able to take holy water from under the altar. One day my mother sent me to fill a bottle of this water for a woman who stayed with her. I returned with the empty bottle and told her: "Mom, the water is deep. and I almost fell into it ”. Mom put her hands on her frightened face and said: "But what did I do?". I did not fall because Our Lady was waiting for me in Nazareth.

The Lia river ends here: it delivers its waters to the Monticano and in turn leaves them to the Livenza to reach the sea. The Lia is an ancient river that marks the territory. Born in what is now the Gambrinus park (that of the shrimp of this river), you can cross it under the bridge of the Church of the Templars of Ormelle and you can hardly follow its meanders in Colfrancui. Here you can greet its waters and its millenary memory of this territory