It is a branch of the Botteniga river, which was born at Pria Bridge at the entrance to the city of Treviso, where once the women of the area came to wash clothes. In this mighty entrance door, divided into seven arches, each of which there are two sluice gates or buoys, the Botteniga river is divided into three branches, of which the most famous is the Buranelli canal, the largest being the Cagnan Grande and finally the Cagnan della Roggia, also called Siletto.
On the opposite bank of the famous canal is the house of the great Treviso writer Giovanni Comisso, who wrote, "I live in the landscape, I recognize in it the source of my blood. It penetrates for my eyes and increases my strength. Perhaps the reason of my travels around the world was nothing more than a search for landscapes, which functioned as powerful calls ".
And he continues, "Perhaps there is still in me that instinct that was to dominate the emigrating races, an instinct that was thirsty for new and wonderful landscapes, even before being an instinct for prey and conquest. In the landscape it is the first sign of the hands of God and I justify certain sensitive beings who in the midst of the most beautiful landscapes attest to having seen the appearance of divinity.
The other sign is man, but man is formed and grows in relation to the landscape: he is a mirror of the landscape "(work" Happy Veneto. Itineraries and tales "of 1984). A little further on, always on the canal , the sixteenth-century building that once was the home and warehouse of fish traders from the island of Burano, from which it took its name, stands out.
The waterway continues through the whole city, flowing among the numerous medieval and Renaissance buildings, passing under the weeping willows and next to the characteristic washhouses suspended by chains, meeting mills and bridges, eventually ending up in the Sile river. Today, on one of the buildings overlooking the water, we can admire a metal work by Mario Martinelli, which depicts the famous writer from Treviso Giovanni Comisso.
