Italy is a country that, besides its beautiful landscapes and cities rich in history and museums, finds its most intimate beauty in the villages that dot it from north to south. Among the most beautiful ones there is Portobuffol\u00e8, the smallest village of the entire province of Treviso, located right on the border with Friuli-Venezia Giulia. Awarded the coveted “Orange Flag” by the TCI, Portobuffol\u00e8 lies on the banks of the Livenza River, once an important link between the Venetian Lagoon and the hinterland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Discovering Portobuffol\u00e8<\/strong> Each of these lords and peoples left their mark on Portobuffol\u00e8, whose historic center is a real gem waiting to be discovered: passing through Porta Trevisana you reach the cobbled Piazza Beccaria, truly enchanting with its elegant palaces with frescoed facades, including Ca' Soler. Walking through the historical center of Portobuffol\u00e8, it is possible to see the Municipal Tower dating back to the tenth century: it is made of bricks and it is the only one surviving of the seven towers that defended the town in the past. At the foot of the tower there is the Monte di Piet\u00e0, built during the Venetian period: on its facades you can admire frescoes depicting Peace, Charity, Justice and Hunger, but also the Lion of San Marco.<\/p>\n A village with a rich historical and enogastronomical heritage<\/strong> Adjacent to the church is the Casa dell'Arcisinagogo, near which a typical Jewish candelabrum with seven arms was found. On its facade there is a plaque that remembers the condemnation to the stake to which a group of Jews of Portobuffol\u00e8 was condemned, for the unjust accusation of infanticide. The sentence was actually executed but in Venice, in the very central Piazza San Marco.<\/p>\n Iconic is then the Friuli Bridge, built in stone in 1780 in place of an old wooden drawbridge: walking along this elegant bridge with two arches, you can see a Bocca della Verit\u00e0 (Mouth of Truth) and valuable balconies. To know Portobuffol\u00e8 also means to taste the typical products of the place: from veal kidney, to gnocchetti dressed with duck sauce, to the Portobuffol\u00e8 soup made with mushrooms, pumpkin and bread. Not to be missed are also the wines of the territory, in particular the red wines of Alta Livenza.<\/p>\n"},"stato_borgo":[],"village-conntection":[101804],"borghi":[76393,76389],"village-category":[35899,35901],"class_list":["post-176889","village","type-village","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","village-conntection-portobuffole-en","borghi-treviso","borghi-veneto","village-category-most-beautiful-villages-in-italy","village-category-orange-flag-countries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/village\/176889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/village"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/village"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/village\/176889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"stato_borgo","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stato_borgo?post=176889"},{"taxonomy":"village-conntection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/village-conntection?post=176889"},{"taxonomy":"borghi","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/borghi?post=176889"},{"taxonomy":"village-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/village-category?post=176889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe first traces of Portobuffol\u00e8 are linked to its hamlet, Settimo, called by the Romans Septimum De Liquentia, in reference to the distance of 7 miles from the ancient Oderzo. Many people dominated the town during its history, from the Carraresi to the Patriarch of Aquileia, up to the Ripalto, Tolberto da Camino and Samaritana Malatesta. The Venetian dominion over Portobuffol\u00e8 began in 1339 and coincided with the period of maximum splendor for the village, which was assigned a podest\u00e0, a coat of arms and the title of City.
\nTowards the end of the 18th century, especially after the Treaty of Campoformio, Portobuffol\u00e8 was bitterly contested by the French and the Austrians.<\/p>\n
\nNot far from the square here is the fourteenth-century Casa Gaia Museum, residence of the famous poet Gaia da Camino: the woman, who has been attributed a dissolute life by gossip, is also mentioned by Dante in the Purgatory of the Divine Comedy, since the Supreme Poet was a guest of the woman's father, Gherardo da Camino. Casa Gaia preserves splendid frescoes of the 14th century, related to the surrounding territory of Portobuffol\u00e8 but especially to the court life of that time, among ladies, armigers and pages. The building is also home to the \"Museum of Cycling\", with jerseys and memorabilia such as the woolen undershirt that Gino Bartali wore during the accident he had at his first Tour de France.<\/p>\n
\nAmong the symbolic monuments of Portobuffol\u00e8 there is Fontego, the ancient customs house where food and cereals were stored and on whose fa\u00e7ade stand out the sixteenth century coats of arms of the podest\u00e0. To see then is the Duomo, which in reality in the past was a large synagogue: the building dates back to 1559 and contains a beautiful altarpiece of the Virgin made by Francesco da Milano, an organ with more than 400 pipes in tin and zinc and a valuable fifteenth-century crucifix of the German school.<\/p>\n
\nJust outside the city center there are historical places of great beauty such as the Church of San Rocco, with inside the Madonna della Seggiola dating back to 1524 and the neoclassical Oratory of Santa Teresa: the latter is located next to the elegant Villa Giustinian and inside shows all its splendor with decorated floors, frescoed ceilings and a crucifix by Brustolon. One of the best times to visit Portobuffol\u00e8 is at the end of June, on the occasion of the historical commemoration \"Portobuffol\u00e8, XIII century\", when hundreds of people in period costumes parade through the streets of the village.<\/p>\n