A gift for the community and yet another confirmation of the fact that local history holds precious events useful for strengthening our roots. “Spineda: history and stories of women and men, of lands and waters” is the latest work published by Giacinto Cecchetto, former director of the Castelfranco library, author of numerous books and research, attentive researcher of local history. Presented in recent weeks, right on the bridge over the Muson, a symbolic place between the communities of Spineda and Manzolino, it saw the participation of over 400 people, in an atmosphere full of history and memory. This work was strongly desired and supported by Tiziano Alessio, whose baton after his death was taken up by his son Vincenzo with the support of the 13 April 1945 Committee, and reflects the profound community commitment as well as the dedication to the historical memory of the place. The research is enriched by hundreds of illustrations, historical photographs, ancient maps and precious documents provided by the families of Spineda, and for this reason the book is not only the story of the millenary history of the territory, but tries to capture the soul of the community through the centuries.
Precisely because of its precious meaning, numerous authorities intervened during the presentation: the archpriest of Riese Pius Giorgio Piva, in his capacity as parish priest of Spineda, the mayor of Riese Pio of the Riese Pio X Comprehensive Institute, prof. Paolo Boffo.
The reconstruction-commemoration of the dramatic April 13, 1945, the day of the town’s fire, caused by the Nazi-fascist forces, is particularly heartfelt. The multivisions, edited by Giorgio Cividal and the readings by Maurizia Contarin paid homage to those painful pages of Spineda’s history, while the dialogues between the author and the children of the local primary school introduced the new generations to the themes of the book.
Among the details of the thousand-year-old and mysterious history of Spineda told by Cecchetto there is the description of the “motta” or “mountain” of via Boschi (2,300-1,700 BC), a probable very ancient funerary mound near which the author of the volume discovered the existence of the first church of Spineda, dedicated to Santa Giustina, equipped with a cemetery and also the settlement of the 1st-4th century AD from the Roman era, which was followed by another settlement from the Gothic age of the 6th-7th century.
The study of the interesting artistic heritage of the parish church of S. Antonio Abate is accurate and well documented, in which the splendid ceiling fresco by Giambattista Canal (1802-1803) and a Madonna and Child in mottled white marble from the century stand out. XVII.
In short, in the fifteen chapters of the book we reconstruct, on the basis of archive documents (the parish church of Spineda, the municipality of Riese, the state of Venice and Treviso and the diocesan of Treviso), not only the history, but perhaps the soul of the community from the Middle Ages until the dramatic fire of 13 April 1945.
