 The town of Fossò is located in a fertile plain in the territory of the Riviera del Brenta, between Padua and Venice.The name may be derived from the Latin " Fossadum ", a ditch, with reference probably to a minor line of river Brenta.An old sale contract shows that this town was existing at least since 1073 onwards with the consequent assumption that a church was already built here, though we must wait until 1130 to find the first sure mention of the existence of a chapel dedicated to St. Bartholomew, in a letter of the bishop of Padua.