Origins of the name "Forte del 48"

An old inn was called "Forte del 48" (from which part of the village took its name) and its origins come from the Independence war and from the resistance of Venice in 1849. The Hapsburg army built a bulwark on the same place that was destroyed during the First World War. In "Goodbye to weapons" Ernst Hemingway mentioned the existence of this redoubt.

At the end of 2000 Doc. Dino Casagrande published a book in collaboration with the De Faveris. It was entitled: "Forte del 48 and the unsuccessful military action in Piave area". About the building he says:

"An old inn was known as Osteria Forte del 48 over a hundred years ago. We can say that the oldest part of the building may be dated before 1878, when the land-registry office did a revision. At the beginning if the twentieth century it was used as a inn but its name had changed in "Locanda Forte del 48" and the area around it was called "the Forte zone", a definition that has been holding down over the years till today. After being well refurbished, recently this inn has become an all-comfort hotel, "Hotel Forte del 48", that has been run by De Faveri family for over thirty years. It is a hotel that keeps an ever-last name, and it reminds an Austrian redoubt of San Donà di Piave built in 1848".

Forte del 48 and the unsuccessful military action in Piave area

This book tries to give n answer to the reason why an area of San Donà di Piave, Forte del 48, was called this way. A manuscript came out while consulting historical books, and it deals with an Austrian redoubt that was built in order to make stronger the defence around Piave. It also deals with a military action project whose purpose was to beat the foreign soldiers in Venice, but throwing away all hopes of an immediate victory, it has never been done.

[Author: Dino Casagrande]

De Faveri's family

De Faveri's brothers (Antonio, Guerrino e Silvano who are respectively married to Gabriella, Nirvana e Giovanna) started their activity in 1968 when they bought "da Toni" restaurant (Toni is the shortest of Antonio, the oldest brother). When the Venice-trieste motorway was opened there were just a few people who used to drive through "the Triestina", so they had to find a way out for their business.

In 1971 De Faveris bought "Locanda Forte del 48" from Boroscos. Their restaurant was run by Antonio and his wife and De Faveri's mother, Virginia. Instead their hotel was run by Guerrino, Nirvana, Silvano and Giovanna, and in 1989 by Guerrino and his wife and their two children Lodovico and Prisca. In the same year they started refurbishing and enlarging the building. Then in 1999 it gained a third star for his quality, so it become one of the largest and most comfortable hotels in San Donà di Piave and low Piave area.