The origins of the municipality are ancient: in fact, in the area, and more specifically in the locality of Falzè, an ancient port on the Piave River and a center of commercial exchange interests, artifacts dating back to the Eneolithic and Paleovenetian periods have been found, and there is no shortage of traces of Roman presence in the rest of the territory.
During the Middle Ages, after the fractionation of the properties of the counts of Collalto, the communal territory came under the rule of the Della Rovere and later the Da Camino, only to return, after 1312, back into the possession of the counts of Collalto.
The latter, according to popular tradition, turned their castle into a place of torture for prisoners of war and criminals: hence the name “Serra Canaglia,” later transformed into the current first part of the place-name; the second part, on the other hand, clearly refers to the epic Battle of the Piave in 1918.
With the decline of the Serenissima, under whose rule it remained until 1797, it opened, like the whole of the Veneto, to French occupation, followed by Austrian occupation and annexation to the Kingdom of Italy in 1866.
The most recent history is a history of emigration: the sad living conditions of the population, aggravated by the two world wars, led, in fact, from the beginning of the century and until not long ago, to a massive exodus, in memory of which the Emigrant Fountain-Monument was erected between 1962 and 1967.
