Community Enjoy Sport - Quarto d'Altino

The Enjoy Sport Sile-Piave community is born of water: it brings together three municipalities of eastern Veneto spread between the Sile and Piave rivers, east of Venice — Quarto d'Altino, the lead town, San Donà di Piave and Musile di Piave — with some 61,000 inhabitants in all. Each contributes a layer of history. Quarto d'Altino rises over ancient Roman Altinum, the city from which Venice's first settlers fled and today home to a national archaeological museum. San Donà di Piave, the largest of the three, was a front line in the First World War: razed in 1917 on the Piave — the 'sacred river of the homeland' — and rebuilt after the 1918 armistice.

The territory makes the river its sporting facility. The GreenWay del Sile links some 125 kilometres of cycling and pedestrian routes that cross the community to the lagoon. San Donà di Piave also contributes a tradition uncommon in Italy: rugby. Rugby San Donà, founded in 1959 and present in the national categories since the late 1970s, plays at the Stadio Mario e Romolo Pacifici, with 1,500 covered seats, and has a second pitch, the Pippo Torresan, host to youth national-team matches.

In 2025, ACES Europe recognised the group as European Community of Sport, with Quarto d'Altino as the lead town. The community category rewards precisely what the Sile-Piave represents: three riverside municipalities that pool sport and the river landscape in a single project, within the dense Italian and Veneto presence in the ACES network.