Proceeding from the Piazza Santa Maria for Battuti you reach Piazza San Leonardo, which took place in the market during the Middle Ages. In this square, and in the Piazza dei Signori (once Piazza Maggiore) and the Duomo, the auctioneers were reading the City of proclamations and invitations, preceded by the sound of trumpets and drums to summon the people and to impose silence.
The Church of San Leonardo, renovated several times in different eras, Inside a wooden triptych of school Giambattista Cima da Conegliano making the Madonna of the Holy Apostle Bartholomew and Prosdocimo Bishop, the altarpiece more Pozzoserrato Louis, depicting San Leonardo, patron saint of prisoners.
Opposite the church stands the Palazzo Spineda dating to the second half of'500, now headquarters Cassamarca, the Cassa di Risparmio of Brand Trivigiana. E 'one of the most characteristic of urban dwelling aristocratic Venetian era. From Piazza San Leonardo goes to the eponymous bridge over Cagnan and through the Vicolo del Molinetto (which almost kept an old wheel well) we reach the Island of Fish in the pond of Cagnan Grande.
The Island along the horse chestnuts, is home to the itinerant fish market (in the morning of weekdays). This urbanistica singular invention dates back to 1855. Through a bridge from cast iron railings, the crowd place is packed every morning in the nearby street where other banks will sell fruit and vegetables, away from traffic and cars and tranquility of nature. Even the houses in the streets adjacent to participate in these meetings Corali di human offering numerous shops and taverns as permanent stations for the popular pilgrimage.
On the one hand a number of fronts, with their imaginative and lively painted decoration ranging from Gothic to Renaissance (from 1400 to 1500), constitute almost a sample of this particular genre.
On the left, three arches leading to peaceful Piazzetta San Parisio, already views fifteenth cloister convent of the nuns Camaldolesi, which will see the arches occluded. But Fish also has a discreet and intimate aspect that you can grasp in the spring or summer evenings when the big chestnut trees and thin breeze brought by Great Cagnan become the stage for unique emotions.
In the nearby Via Palestro, five arches give light to rooms on the ground floor of Ca `Carraresi for exhibitions and conferences, created by Cassamarca restoring and renovating old buildings. E 'This is a sober building by a brick facade that romantic, above the porch, opens with elegant mullioned windows and triple, spread simmetry involved with. The emblem of Carraresi, found sull'affresco the facade, gave the name of the house.