Roads of Mestre

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Miranese
It links Mestre to Mirano (20 km). In Mestre it crosses Gazzera and Chirignago, then it passes through Spinea, reach Mirano and from there continues to Padova. It was described, in the 19th century, by Francesco Scipione Fapanni, who listed in a manuscript, unfortunately uncomplete, the villas and the palaces for holidays. Among these, making the Miranese start from Villa Erizzo-Bianchini in the actual Carducci St. in Mestre, Fapanni listed Querini Palace in Mestre, Morosini Palace and the Ponci Casino in Orgnano of Spinea, Villa Cabrini and Zinelli Palace in Mirano.
Castellana
It links Mestre to Castelfranco Veneto (33 km). In a register of 1315 it's mentioned as "Strada de Barban" (Street of Barban), because it passed through the village of Barban, today corresponding to the zone between Cipressina and Borgo Pezzana. Today it starts at Quattro Cantoni and passes through Zelarino and Trivignano (north-eastern Mestre).
Terraglio
It links Mestre to Treviso (21 km) and forms thre first part of the arterial road Pontebbana. "Terraglio" is the name given in the ancient times to all the very beaten roads or to the roads on a bank. Documents dating back to the 1000 a.D. quote already the Terraleum as a roman and then venetian road. In the 14th century thel Terraglio had gone to rack and ruin and the bordering woods were polluted by brigands; it was under the the Republica of Venice that the Terraglio prospered again and began to be plenty of amazing villas of the venetian nobles, among which Villa Albrizzi-Franchetti in San Trovaso of Preganziol. Napoleon Bonaparte reorganized the local system of roads and the Terraglio too in 1808. In 1819 between Mestre and Treviso was instituted a regular public service of stage-coaches, substituted by tram in 1909, bytrolley-bus in 1934 and by bus in 1964. In the meantime the Terraglio had been asphalted, in two rounds, in 1925.
Riviera of Brenta
It's the arterial road that running along the river Brenta comes up to Padua (railway distance from Mestre 28 km). Tre riviera of Brenta is sparkling with wonderful villas, among which stand up the great Villa Pisani in Stra, with its huge garden and its labyrinth, Villa Widmann (property of the District of Venice) in Mira, The Villa La Malcontenta. The Riviera starts in the south of Mestre and, after Mestre, goes through Malcontenta, Mira, Dolo, Fiesso d'Artico, Stra.
Ponte della Libertà (Bridge of Freedom)
It links Mestre to Venice (total distance 8 km). Proposed in 1835, it was built by the Austrians between 1841 and 1846 as a railway bridge, inaugurated on january 11th 1846 by a trip from Vicenza to Venice. In 1849 the venetians destroyed five arches of it  to try to resist to the Austrian siege. On april 25th 1933 the motorbridge was inaugurated (by then named "Ponte del Littorio"). With its 3,623 meters at the age of its building it was the longest bridge in the world and still today it's the longest in Italy, at least untill the bridge on the Straits of Messina will be made.
Triestina
The Triestina road is about corresponding to the ancient Roman roads Annia and Popilia (look beside). In the Middle Age it was calle Orlanda Street because a legend pretended that the most important roads were defended by the Paladins.
The ancient roman roads
Since the roman age, the land of Mestre was crossed by important roads that linked lively centers like Altino and Padua. The Via Annia-Popilia went from Padua to Altino, the Romea towards Ravenna, the Claudia-Augusta from Altino to Augsburg (Augusta) in Germany.
The railway line Mestre-Padua
The railway between Milan and Venice was approved by Ferdinand I of Austria in 1837. The railwayt Mestre-Padua was the third railway stretch in Italy, after Naples-Portici (1839) and Milan-Monza (1840). The railway stretch between Mestre and Padua as a matter of fact was inaugurated on 12 december 1842 and began to work on the following day. It's 32 kilometers long and it cost 7,200,000 Austrian liras.
The "roads of the sky"
In Mestre there is the third Italian airport for the amount of the air traffic, whose name is "Marco Polo", at Tessera, Mestre east.
In the 20s of the 20th century at Campalto (Mestre east) there was a big hangar for dirigible balloons.
The modern roads: motorways, by-pass and circular-road
Motorway A4 Milan-Mestre and Mestre-Trieste: the stretch Mestre-Padua (impassable after the second world war, it was doubled in 1959-1961) allows also the immission into Padua-Bologna.
Motorway A27 Mestre-Belluno.
The By-pass of Mestre (dating back 1972, 3,2 km of viaduct e 2,9 km of bank, to link the motorways Milan-Mestre, Mestre-Trieste and Mestre-Belluno) is by now a bottleneck for the whole transports of Northern Italy and towards the European East, bacause, in spite it isn't a motorway nor a ring-road nor a city-street, it would have to work as each of these. Inaugurated by the major of Venice Favaretto Fisca, it was projected as a definitive solution but the too fast growth of Mestre made the city be crossed and not by-passed by the By-pass. In 2005 the By-pass of Mestre grew to 40 million cars for year, 30% more than the Golden Gate of San Francisco, so it was necessary to build the Circular-road di Mestre.
The Circular-road di Mestre was opened in 2009.

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