Raixe Venete

{{Short description|Venetist cultural association}}

Raixe Venete (translation: Venetian Roots) is a Venetist cultural association.

Founded in 2002, Raixe Venete is aimed at "keeping the Venetian identity alive through the promotion, the protection and the circulation of the millennial Venetian culture, in all its forms, from history to language, from tradition to music".{{Cite web |title=l’Asociasión : chi che semo |url=http://www.raixevenete.com/presentazione/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190205120733/http://www.raixevenete.com/presentazione/ |archive-date=2019-02-05}} The association publishes a journal in Venetian and has connections with kin organisations and separatists from all over Europe, especially from the Basque Country and Catalonia. Its most prominents members have included Davide Guiotto and Alberto Montagner.{{Cite web|url=http://www.miglioverde.eu/festa-dei-veneti-la-crisi-il-successo-e-il-saluto-di-davide-guiotto|title=Festa dei veneti: La crisi, il successo e il saluto di davide guiotto|date=3 September 2012}}

Raixe Venete's leading event takes place every year on the first weekend of September in Cittadella. The so-called Festa dei Veneti, which has featured Venetist associations, actors, musicians and other artists since 2003,{{Cite web |title=FESTA DEI VENETI 2015 El programa |url=http://www.raixevenete.com/festa-dei-veneti-2015-el-programa/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170708190946/http://www.raixevenete.com/festa-dei-veneti-2015-el-programa/ |archive-date=2017-07-08}} is a meeting opportunity for Venetists from all ideological backgrounds. The first nine editions of the feast took place under mayor Massimo Bitonci.{{Cite web|url=http://mattinopadova.gelocal.it/regione/2010/09/02/news/la-festa-dei-veneti-a-cittadellafuoco-incrociato-sul-gonfalone-1.1202350|title = La Festa dei Veneti a Cittadellafuoco incrociato sul gonfalone|date = 2 September 2010}} Over the years, the feast has drawn leading politicians, notably including Luca Zaia of Liga Veneta–Lega Nord and Simonetta Rubinato of the Democratic Party,{{Cite web|url=http://ricerca.gelocal.it/mattinopadova/archivio/mattinodipadova/2009/09/07/MP2PO_MP202.html|title = In 30 mila alla Festa dei Veneti - il mattino di Padova}} and intellectuals and opinion-makers, such as Vittorio Feltri, Carlo Lottieri and Lorenzo Del Boca.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ilgazzettino.it/PAY/NAZIONALE_PAY/dalla_festa_dei_veneti_vento_d_indipendenza/notizie/884317.shtml|title = Dalla Festa dei Veneti vento d'indipendenza| date=8 September 2014 }}

In the 2015 regional election Guiotto stood as candidate in Zaia's personal list,{{Cite web|url=http://www.trevisotoday.it/politica/elezioni/regionali-veneto-2015/elezioni-veneto-2015-candidati-come-si-vota.html|title = Elezioni regionali: I candidati in provincia di Treviso e come si vota}}{{Cite web |title=COMUNICATO: dimissioni di Davide Guiotto |url=http://www.raixevenete.com/comunicato-dimissioni-di-davide-guiotto/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170705081458/http://www.raixevenete.com/comunicato-dimissioni-di-davide-guiotto/ |archive-date=2017-07-05}} but was not elected.{{Cite web|url=http://elezioni2015.consiglioveneto.it/elezioni2015/regionali|title = Elezioni Regionali 2015}}