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dialect), formerly Crocetta Trevigiana, is a ''

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'' (municipality) in the

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in the

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, located about northwest of

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and about northwest of

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, and borders the municipalities of

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. The present name literally means "Little Cross of the Little Hill", and refers to the Montello, an isolated hillock, in size and in elevation, that rises from the Piave's

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at the west edge of the town.

History

Prehistory and antiquity

Traces of human occupation dating from the

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have been found along the north-east edge of the Montello, above the boroughs of Ciano and Santa Margherita, which at the time were on the Piave river. The main finds are

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tools that appear to be

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points. Ciano takes its name from an ancient

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temple devoted to the cult of

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. The temple's focus was the Buoro di Ciano spring, which presently lies at the end of a long

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, and whose water was reputed to be beneficial to the health.

Rural beginnings

In the

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the temple was replaced by a

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dedicated to Saint Mamertus, patron of

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. Up to the 11th century, the area was still a sparsely settled woodland, plagued by lack of water and periodic flooding by the Piave. In the 15th century the Brentella Canal] or Bretella Canal (''Brantea'' in Venetian) was built to draw irrigation water from the Piave. The Bentella, which presently bisects the town in the north-south direction alongside Via Gugliemo Marconi and via Erizzo, was to become a major landmark and economic benesse for Crocetta and its surrounds three centuries later. After

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turned the Montello into an off-limits

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reserve, the displaced

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s and

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who used to live there became a class of landless, homeless and jobless miserables, the ', who survived on odd jobs and occasionally crimes. By the beginning of the 19th century, the area was occupied by a few large manorial properties belonging to the

nobility, many small family farms producing

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, rye and

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, and a few small

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on the hill slopes. Some

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work was produced at Ciano, and the town had a few smiths and coopers. A

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, powered by the Brentella, operated near Via Rimembranza. In the second half of the 19th century,

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production became popular across northern Italy, and the raising of

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s became an option for local farmers. The first silk spinning shop, the Filanda Marcato Ancilotto, was established in 1870.

The Canapificio Veneto

In 1882, Andrea Antonini, who owned a

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mill in Venice, joined with fellow businessmen Pacifico Ceresa and Angelo Zorzetto to build the Canapificio Veneto Antonini Ceresa, on the west bank of the Brentella, which opened its doors in May 1883. The Canapificio dominated the town's economy for more than seven decades (1882–1958), and Antonini, its main owner and manager, became one of the most influential personalities in the town's history. The first workers were recruited among the ''bisenti'', but as the mill grew it attracted workers from the neighboring towns as well. Antonini sponsored the construction of popular housing for those workers along Via Sant'Anna (1890) and Piazza Cadorna (1896), and the establishment of basic services. The first two electricity generators of the town, driven by the Brentella, were installed in 1883 by the Canapificio. Antonini first had his own residence built inside the Canapificio, but in 1898 he started the construction of a new house, Villa Antonini, which is now a landmark of Crocetta. His old residence became the worker's

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Independence from Cornuda

Throughout the 19th century, Crocetta was only a suburb of the municipality of Cornuda. It only became an independent municipality on July 2, 1902 by detaching the hamlets Ciano and Nogarè. The split was an initiative of Lodovico Boschieri, then mayor of Cornuda, who became the first mayor of Crocetta. In the years following the split, Crocetta gained a

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, an

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, a

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, a barber shop, a cooperative

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, and an aqueduct. Schools were opened at some of its boroughs. A dormitory for the girls who worked on the silk mill was also built at that time. Antonini himself established a semi-industrial

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and a spinnery in Crocetta (1904), a

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at Ciano (1905), and a

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at Crocetta (1910). Another electric plant was built upstream at Croce del Gallo, and a third one downstream from the Canapificio (1911). A worker's union (the ''Società Operaia di Mutuo Soccorso'', "Worker's Society for Mutual Help"), was established in 1910. In 1913, workers went on a 20-day worker's strike for better living conditions, which ended with a promise by Antonini to build a

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Between the two wars

Mortar shells outside Ciano Church during World War One. Crocetta found itself on the front line of

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. The Montello hill was the stage of the Battle of the Solstice between Italian and

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troops (June 15–23, 1918). Many buildings were destroyed or heavily damaged, including the Canapificio and all the town's churches. In the years after the war, some of the local business gradually resumed their activities, including the Canapificio. In 1920 a merger turned it into the Linificio e Canapificio Nazionale, with Ceresa as one of the directors, while Antonini chose to sell all its holdings. Crocetta's bakery and lime kiln, however, closed their doors. The town's original name Crocetta Trevigiana was changed in 1928 by the

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government, to honor the soldiers who died fighting for control of the Montello hill during World War I. An

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, the Orfanotrofio Pontello, was built in the same year. Over the following decade, the

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regime took control of all freetime activities of the country's population through its ''

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'' ("National Leisure Organization"), or OND. At Crocetta, the OND took over the Arts and Crafts school as its local headquarters. In 1935, the regime turned the Anonini Cultural Center into the ''Casa del Fascio'' ("House of Fascism"). Crocetta was badly hit by the global economic turmoil between the two World Wars, especially by the downturns of 1922 (the Post-World War I recession), 1927 (the

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), 1933, and 1938. The Canapificio gradually reduced its operations and finally closed its doors in 1938, leaving many people without a job and triggering the

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of many local business that depended on it.

The Second World War

The first years of

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affected Crocetta only indirectly, by conscription and shortages. However, after the

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landed in southern Italy and fascism retreated to the

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, Crocetta found itself again in the crossfire. Allied bombing, resistance guerrillas and German reprisals took a heavy toll on the town and its inhabitants.

Geography

Since the 19th century, the main access roads to the region were the

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road (now the SR-348 regional highway), and the Via Erizzo road, built in 1817 (now the SP-2 provincial road). The main road east from central Crocetta begins as Via Lodovico Boschieri and continues along the northern edge of the Montello ; it eventually turns south and reaches

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as Via Decima SAS. It is locally known as the Panoramic Road for its views of the Piave valley. Along that road lie the eastern suburbs of Crocetta: Ciano (about 1.5 km), Botteselle (3 km), Sant'Urbano (3.5 km), Santa Margherita (4.0 km) and Santa Mama (4.5 km). Centuries ago, Ciano and Santa Margherita were ports on the Piave, but the river has since shifted its course and now runs 2 km to the northwest of Ciano. To preserve their water supply, the Brentella was tapped near the borough of Croce del Gallo to create the Costelviero Canal, that runs along the Panoramic Road. Westwards from central Crocetta, Via Lodovico Boschieri becomes Via Sant'Andrea and leads to the borough of Nogarè (2.5 km) and then to the Padova Industrial District (3.5 km). Due to its position across the valley that connects Cornuda and Valdobiaddene at the north to Montebelluna, Treviso, and Venice in the southwest, Crocetta today suffers from heavy through-traffic that severely strains the local roads.

Culture

Crocetta del Montello has a very interesting civic museum, which houses a prehistoric horn of Mammoth and a small dinosaur skeleton, as well as many other archaeological finds. The museum was opened to the public in 1978 with the contribution of numerous archeology scholars, including prof. Giuliano Palmieri, teacher of Greek and Latin at the Antonio Canova state high school in Treviso until the early 2000s.

Economics

In the space of twenty years, from 1965 to 1985, thanks to the resourcefulness and intelligence of many entrepreneurs, about a hundred artisanal and industrial companies, including medium-large ones, entered the productive fabric of the Municipality, some of which are very significant: a dozen shoe factories, four to five mechanical companies, four packaging companies, three wineries, and others in the canning sector and in the industrial machinery sector. Today, Crocetta's economy is based on a network of family agriculture, small industries and services.

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and

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are produced in the area. The town also benefits indirectly from wine production in nearby hills, notably the

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Demographic evolution

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Foreign ethnicities and minorities

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