At the curve where the Great Cagnan you enter in Sile can be observed during the rains a curious phenomenon: the waters of Cagnan, Terragni aspect arising from the countryside, do not mix with those immediately clear Tomorrow, but for a certain stretch there is accompanying. It 'just that that gave reason to remind Treviso Dante in his Divine Comedy, with the verse: "And where Sile and Cagnan s'accompagne ..." (Paradiso, IX, 49).
So the city wanted to reciprocate the memory of the poet raising, in 1865, a stele on the bridge that bears the name. Before dell'Impossibile Ponte was called because, when it was built in masonry, as we see today, replacing the wooden artefacts that were continually overwhelmed by Cagnan in full, it seemed impossible to Trevigiani that the new bridge reggesse the fury of water.
Tomorrow in the waters that open in front of Ponte Dante every year, on the evening of Thursday, half of Lent, involving a huge crowd, it plays the traditional process to Vecia, a great phantom hung over the river that represents all the evils Treviso occurred in the last year. And as always, after a farcical ceremony was Vecia the court inevitably condemned to death penalty and is now performed by the fire.
Ponte Dante views on Cagnan it sinks beyond the barrier where once running the wheels of many mills (in 1685 it surveyed are thirty-six), owned by prominent families and monasteries. To these are added the monumental complex as a bridge milling San Martino sixteen wheels governed directly by the Serenissima Domain.
To trace the course of Cagnan takes the Alley of Squero, still paved with pebbles, whose name derives from the basin formed by the area of water near the bridge where Dante once the boats were waiting to be repaired. Going beyond Sottoportico, water Cagnan approaches the street where once the washerwomen did the laundry.
Here languages land grasslands dilate the course of Cagnan Grande, so we need three arches of the bridge that crosses the street and for which we reach the hospital for Battuti old.
From street Squero, crossed the bridge over Cagnan, it comes at Via Gualpertino from Coderta. This way the old lines of Lost Hospital, which belongs to the Church of Santa Croce that protrudes on the road with its old brick facade and which owes its name to a relic from Jerusalem and left as a gift from Paolo di Sassoferrato in 1447 that here was hospitality and care. Inside the Church are preserved three major paintings by Bartolomeo Treviso Orioli dated around 1626.
Among these, the procession of the School is the largest painting on canvas exists in Treviso (15 meters). On the other side of the road are still preserved in some houses Barbican. Along this road to the right you reach the Piazza Santa Maria for Battuti, the center of which is a column in Istria stone bearing the name of Lost and the image of the Madonna.