Pontemarco

Description

Pontemanco is a small village of medieval origins in the municipality of Due Carrare, at the foot of the eastern slope of the Euganean Hills. It is perhaps the only intact example of a 16^th-18^th century town centre in the Paduan area, preserving its urban layout and almost all of the buildings.
Its name seems to derive from an initial lack (mancanza) of a bridge (ponte) over the Biancolino canal, which still flows through it today. Symmetrical residential centres have developed on the opposite banks of the canal; one clustered around 18^th century Villa Lovato Sperandio and the other around Villa Grimani Fortini with its small 17^thcentury Oratory della Santissima Annunciata which houses frescoes, decorations, works of art and original furnishings from the late 17^th century.
Pontemanco is still known as "the ancient village of mills" because of its very early milling activity which ended in 1970 after a fire in the mill on the left bank. The symbol of the village is its ancient mill which probably dates to the 14^th century.

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