Historic events

The Musile territory once consisted of valleys, sandbanks and marshes, except for a wood abounding stretch that corresponded to the actual small town of Croce. The Via Annia crossed that area and connected Rome to Aquileia and it corresponded to the present Via Emilia, as some finds (amphoras, glasses) and the recent recovery of the basements of the piers and the wood beams of a Roman bridge in Ponte Catena demonstrate.
The place-name Musile appeared for the first time only around the year 836 and it was referred to a small town on the banks of the Piave river. Just here they raised the first sacred building dedicated to Saint Donato, bishop and martyr. Somebody says that the original name of Musile was San Donato but the town gained the name of San Donà after an exchange of capons. That explains why the church of Musile brings the name of San Donato, instead of San Donà.

At that epoch, Musile came under the jurisdiction of the bishop of Torcello, while Croce belonged to the patriarch of Aquileia.
In 1177 it became a feud of the Ezzelini to be then included in the city of Treviso's properties (1260), despite the objection of the patriarchs of Aquilea who only after some years relinquished their jurisdictional rights.

In 1329 the town was sacked by hand of the Della Scala troops. In 1331 the Foscaris, owners of several territories, built up a chapel dedicated to the holy Cross. That chapel depended on Noventa until it became parish in 1509.
After the Venetian domination, the valleys, the pastures and the few lands of Musile were bought by the Malipieros who also raised a new church dedicated to Saint Donato and increased the separation of Musile from Noventa, attempting to give birth to an urban independent settlement

Such settlement would have developed in a very inhospitable site: on the one hand it was a malarial region because of the progressive lagoon's becoming marshy and, on the other hand, it was a flooding-prone zone. In 1483 the Fossetta Channel was dug to increase the connections with Venice.
In the XVI century (1534-1543), the San Marco bank was built by the Republic on the right riverside from Ponte di Piave to Torre del Caligo, in order to protect the lagoon from the internment caused by the flood.
In 1641-1644 it had been deviated because of the occlusion of the stretch Musile-Caposile and the creation of a new channel from Musile to Cortellazzo.
As it crossed the actual built-up area of Musile, the Piave river once deviated in direction Piave Vecchia and Caposile, to end up in Cavallino through the actual Sile channel. This process remarkably increased the brakish waters and, as a consequence, the malarial phenomenon.

Then they open the break of the Sile river, the Malipiero and Foscari woods turned into marshes. The territory become a totally depressed area.

During the Napoleonic domineering, Musile finally became a city and only after the Italian Union did it raise again, especially through the re-establishment of the Old Piave (1873) and the beginning of the decontamination interventions. 
Musile became a stage of battles after the Caporetto defeat (autumn 1917): the city was a heap of rubble.
The actual urban centre of the city was reconstructed during the Twenties.

The Municipality and the parish Church had also been rebuilt according to the Neo-Gothic style in 1919.

At the Municipality and the Secondary School of Musile it is still possible to find some Roman evidences that have been discovered in local excavation sites.

Moreover, at I Salsi there are some ruins of an ancient customs tower that somebody considers the only remaining part of the San Romualdo hermitage