Piazza BorsaJust past Palazzo Scotti along Via Toniolo, you reach the gardens of St. Andrew descending from the summit dell'altura St. Andrew's until the bank of the river Sile. The garden, divided in two by the way, gives an idea of just signorilità that was until a few years ago, the park of the Palazzo Onigo destroyed by bombing during the last war.
Sant'andreaAlong with Piazza Duomo and the Piazza dei Signori, the high ground of St. Andrew is one of the most remote settlements in the city of Treviso (XVI century BC). Archaeological finds unearthed during recent excavations have occasional opportunity to confirm this hypothesis.
The confluence of the Sile Cagnan (in other eras richest water) has allowed the formation of alluvial hills sufficiently secure for the first inhabitants. This, which is the highest part of the city (17.50 meters above sea level, compared with the lowest share of 8 meters), was certainly privileged for defensive reasons. Here the old men built their huts, taking food from the river by fishing and by vegetation made prosperous by its richhezza water.
Sant'AndreaLeaving behind the gardens and go along Via Toniolo, we reach the Piazza della Borsa where he established the Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Handicraft and Agriculture. The Palace was opened in 1953 and holds inside the great hall of trading, which hosts shows frequent specialized skills or industrial production. Piazza della Borsa and the same Via Toniolo dall'abbattimento buildings were destroyed or damaged during the last war, in particular the hotel Stella d'Oro, who during the Reign of Italy was meeting aristocrats and port town guests and the distinguished artists who will perform in the near Teatro Comunale.
On 7 April 1944 were gathered in the hotel senior German army officers and the alert had come on the sky of Treviso two waves of bombing Americans that, while meeting the target, spreading death and destruction across the city, carved on the memory one of the most tragic moments in the history of Treviso.
Liberty remains of the Palace of telephones, at the crossroads between Via XX Settembre and Via Martyrs of Liberty, decorated with tiles of the company Gregorj now ceased but that was one of the most glorious ceramic industries that developed around the city. Under the porch of Banca Commerciale Italiana was recomposed the capital of the Madonna of Noli, who was on the other side of the existing building. The name of the capital comes from the Piazzetta Noli where once stop carriages of vetturini waiting to be hired by travelers.