Rivers of
Mestre
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- Marzenego-Osellino
- The Marzenego river gushes
out from a resurgence in the locality of Fratta of Resana,
it flows through Noale, reaches Mestre and here licks up
the Rio Cimetto and apparently forks into the Branch of
Muneghe and the Branch of Campana or of Saint Laurence (that
in fact is a proxecution of Rio Cimetto). The two
branches join again, under the bridge of Colombo Street,
in the canal excavated in 1502 and named Osellino,
that takes the waters of Marzenego to flow into the
lagoon near Tessera. The Marzenego in the most ancient
documents is also mentioned as Mestre or Flumen
de Mestre, evidencing how much its history is
closely linked to history of our city.
- Musone
- In ancient times named
Bottenigo, the Musone is the only river of source and non
of resurgence between Piave and Brenta. It rises in
Castelcucco and in Monfumo, on the hills at north of
Asolo. Then the two branches unite, get water from the
Erega, the Lastego, the Viazza and of several other
tributaries. Very rich in water, in the past the Musone,
that flowed into the lagoon, often caused violent floods.
Therefore its course was modified in 1612: the branch of
Musone dei Sassi was put into Brenta opposite Vigodarzere,
while the branch of Musone Vecchio was put into Brenta
opposite Fusina (Mestre south).
- Dese
- The river Dese rises at
Brentella, at north of Resana, then flows through Scorzč,
Martellago and Marocco. It flows into the lagoon with two
branches, one, the main, in th marsh of Cona and one in
the locality of Mortiron.
- Zero
- At the beginning the Zero,
that gushes out near Campigo, was a small river of
resurgence tributary of Sile. Around 1530, the waters of
Sile, together with the Zero, were diverted into the so
called "ditch of Treviso" to take water to the
activities of the mills and of the production of wool at
Molini and at Folli, respectively in the current zones of
Caneve Street and Spalti Street (Mestre center). But
after that it was impossible to make the come out water
flow back into the Sile and, since 1532, the Zero became
definitively an autonomous river.
- Sile
- In spite of not directly
flowing through Mestre, the Sile could be considered a
part of the catchment-basin involving our city, as it was
in the past an object of some projects for river
deflection together with the above mentioned rivers.
The rivers of Mestre were in the past very rich in mills,
specially in the zone of Zelarino (Mestre west). There were a
good eight mills on the river Zero, nineteen on Marzenego and
eighteen on Dese. Nowadays the mills are no more in operation and
are mostly without the blades, but the buildings are still
visible.
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Bibliography and further informations:
- Antonio STANGHERLIN, Il fiume Dese e i suoi mulini,
in Quaderno del Centro Studi Storici di Mestre, N. 7-8
vecchia serie, p. 22, Mestre, 1965-66
- Ugo FASOLO - Leone CISOTTO - Eugenio MIOZZI - Luigi
BRUNELLO - Franco PIANETTI, Quaderno del Centro Studi
Storici di Mestre, N.12 vecchia serie, Mestre, 1969
- Luigi BRUNELLO, Antica idrografia della terraferma
veneziana, Quaderno di Studi e Notizie N. 2 nuova
serie, Centro Studi Storici di Mestre, 1993
- Giorgio ZOCCOLETTO, I quattro fiumi. Marzenego, Dese,
Sile, Zero, Centro Studi Storici di Mestre, Mestre,
Liberalato, 2005
