Italian
From the complex of the former civil hospital of San Leonardo between Piazza Santa Maria dei Battuti and the Sile river, to a university campus, as well as a residential and commercial district
Historically the site of the former city hospital San Leonardo, never forgotten, then for a period also of the Customs favored by the proximity of the river Sile, today it hosts as a result of a redevelopment commercial, residential and directional areas, designed by the recently deceased architect Portoghesi.
From the first hospital that arose in Treviso until 1932, where, having to make room for the fortress wanted by Mastino della Scala, the School of Santa Maria dei Battuti, an order of flagellants, entered into a contract to purchase a site, we are still on the banks of the Sile, positioned in the district of San Pancrazio, in order to build the new hospital.
And in the sixteenth century, important works led to a new building near the church of San Leonardo.
In 1795, the facade facing the Sile River was demolished and immediately replaced with the current one, in pure neoclassical style, designed by Daniele Danieletti, which was completed by Gaspare Petrovich in 1832. The sixteenth-century facade between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was rebuilt.
The decommissioning of the hospital complex, an origin that gave identity and prestige, has generated for a long time an isolation and abandonment of the area, we are in the period immediately following the Second World War.
With the recent restoration under the auspices of the Cassamarca Foundation, architect Paolo Portoghesi, by utilizing the spaces between the existing buildings, has created in the area of the ancient park of Palazzo Bortolan the new square of Latin Humanism.
The Latin Quarter is also now the central location of the university district, made up of branches of the University of Padua and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
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