The Chief Town of Basso Piave

With its nearly fourtythousand inhabitants, San Donà di Piave is overall indicated as the Chief Town of the eastern part of the Province of Venice, also called Basso Piave, with reference to the last part of this gorgeous river; it is moreover an important linking point between Venice and the beautiful seaside resorts of Jesolo and Eraclea Mare, from which San Donà di Piave is not too far away.

As far as ancient times, The town was famous and an important trading point, where the Piave River flows by: San Donà di Piave has been various times destroyed and rebuilt. Nowadays it has a modern layout and the town planning choices have been taken in the respect of ancient traditions bound to the rural reality with a considerable attention to its possible development and to the future.

Its wide streets, its broad squares, the abundance of green in all the numerous hamlets and in its beautiful parks, the Parco fluviale (River Park), the many fitted out places for sport and leisure time make of San Donà di Piave a pleasant town to live in.
Its characteristic of modern town, based on different trading, craft and partly industrial activities succeeds in cohabiting with a flourishing agriculture.

Very expressive and with many proposals from a cultural point of view, in San Donà di Piave can be found a beautiful Park of the Sculpture in Architecture, further then the well-known Museo della Bonifica (Land Reclamation Museum), dedicated to the history of the important works of land reclamation, carried out on the entire territory of the Basso Piave, and in which it is well- presented, also through an interesting photographic documentation, life and culture in this peculiar area during the century just gone-by.

Numerous are the events organized throughout the year; among them the Spring Feast and Festival, the Palio of Città di Piave, Estiamo a San Donà, The Festa della Polenta ( The Maize Porridge Feast).

The most expected and the nearer to the heart of citizens takes part every year during the first week of October and is known as The Rosary Feast. Till the middle of IX century, this Festivity was the greatest in The eastern Veneto Region, but it seems that its origins dates back to XVI century.