Cradle of noblemen and great military men, but also of high prelates and a "missed" Pope in the ecclesiastic Pileo, founder of the first Paduan university college, it is lapped by the Meduna, Livenza, Sile and Fiume rivers, whose waters have contributed to creating a landscape rich in wet areas. It is one of the three communities that, together with Pasiano and Brugnera, are within the Furniture area, one of the most developed Italian furnishing clusters.