The West Gate of Venice
Villas, town squares and ancient walls!
The western hinterland of Venice, which is known as "Gate West", includes the following towns:
Gianbattista the father and Giandomenico the son were lovers of "miranese". That is why this small taste of the Veneto is called the Land of Tiepolo. Why are two world-famous artists chose just the current West Gate soil Venetian as a land of adoption, an expanse of parks, villas, castles and lush fields.
The campaign of miranese retains a great deal of the past. Following yet the rules of linearity of graticolato Roman large parcels are surrounded by hedges and intersected by roads that cross at right angles. It 'still in an manor houses, country cottages and villas aristocratic eighteenth from large green parks.
Taking from Mestre the historic Via Miranese is calling soon to the town that gives the name to the whole territory. It is the heart of Gate West: Mirano. During the period of Venetian domination of the fifteenth century reached its peak: experienced a long period of peace and enriched with villas commissioned by the Venetian nobility. At that time while the father Gianbattista Tiepolo undertook to decorate the church of St. Michael the Archangel with the Pala letters, always in Mirano his son Giandomenico Tiepolo affrescava the villa of his father with subjects of country place and carnival costumes. Villa Tiepolo was built for Christopher Angeloni and then bought in 1757 by the family of painters from which he took the name. Still to be seen in Mirano there are: Michiel Villa, Villa Bembo and Church of the Nativity of Mary.
Del country of Noale of West Gate of Venice is known already from the iron and there are many testimonies also of the Romanesque. This is an ancient settlement that touches the three provinces of Venice, Padua and Treviso. In the fourteenth century came under Venetian rule together with the entire Treviso. The medieval fortress is the only Noale in miranese to have maintained until now most of the walls. Not to be missed in Noale the Palazzo della Loggia and the Palazzo Mocenigo, the Church of Saints Felice and Fortunato and that of the Assumption.
But the towns of historical importance of West Gate are still many: Salzano with its shrine of Our Lady of Grace, his Villa Romanin Jacur and its Museum St. Pius X; Santa Maria di Sala, age "paleoveneta", with Villa Farsetti Baroque rococo French Spinea, name due to its "graticolati" shaped plug, with Villa Bellati, Villa Ansa Rossignano, Villa Marcon, Villa Simion, church of Saints Vito and Modesto, church of San Leonardo and the church of Santa Maria Assunta; Scorzč, in Roman times, with Villa Soranzo Connétable, Villa Orsini, Villa Dolfin, Villa Barbiero, and San Benedetto church Abate, and Martellago, Roman colonization, with Villa Corner and Villa Grimani Morosini.
