Between the two world wars, Mussolini decided to implement the remediation of the swamps. Thousands of men, called sotans, used their hands, spades and wheelbarrow to create land. Patanostrada is the story of a swamp becoming land, of the creation that is at the core of the Venetian culture. This is the name given by the elderly to the fact of meeting in the countryside taverns or at a crossroads to talk freely, specifying who di what.