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Vigorovea is a hamlet of the municipality of Sant'Angelo di Piove di Sacco, in the province of Padua, but before 1807 it formed a commune by itself and as such it was appointed for the first time in 1491.

Origins of name
Vigorovea, in Latin Vicus Rubetae, probably means a place full of rock.
In 1179 it was called Vici de Roveta, in 1405 Vicoruede, in 1489 Vico de Rovedo, in 1517 Vigo di Rovea, in 1571 Vicorovede, in 1590 Vigo di Roveggia. In the Agro Patavino del Gloria, the villa of Vigorovea is called Vicus Robeus.

History
The first official document mentioning a Nemus Vici de Roveta is a landslide of 2 December 1179, between Martino Canipario di Piove di Sacco and the bishop of Padua Gerardo. The pastoral care of the faithful of this parish church of Piove di Sacco was exercised directly by that collegiate one, until it passed to the rector of the church of San Giacomo, whose first stone was placed on 28 February 1322 (Arch. Vescov. of Padua, Feudorum IV c. 253 v), in execution of the will dictated on 29 May 1311 by the Paduan Jacopo de Zacchis. As he also recalls the inscription referred to by the Psalm, he had equipped it with 32 fields for the maintenance of a priest, who with the assistance of a cleric celebrated every day the Holy Mass in suffrage of the soul of the testator and his relatives. The inhabitants immediately began to prefer this church of St. James to the distant archpriest church, so that its rector, in fact before law, ended with the exercise of the care of souls.
When on 28 September 1489 Bishop Barozzi visited the ecclesiam S. Iacobi de Vico de Rovedo capellam Plebis Sacci judged that he could no longer take his baptistery: Baptisterium sicut aliarum plurium ecclesiarum claudi non potest.

Monuments and places of interest

Religious architecture

Church of San Giacomo
From the report of this pastoral visit, this primitive church is more than 10 meters long, a little more than 9 meters wide and illuminated by 8 windows; another window illuminated the chapel where the main altar was, while two other altars were attached to the northern wall, because in the southern one, immediately to the right of the chapel of the main altar, hung the ropes of the above bell tower. Bishop Barozzi suggested to move the bell tower over the facade; but only in 1793 a new one was built, the current one, with the alms of the faithful.
The early church had the facade to the west and three altars: Most Holy, Blessed Virgin and Saint Sebastian. The Sartori, in his Historical Guide, on the relationship of the restorations of that church, notes that it was totally restored in 1507. A memory that was in the church itself and was preserved by the Psalm, says that the same was restored and embellished by its patron Livio Conte Nores of Cyprus, Canon of Padua (1586-1631) and the Men of Comun in 1605. Another restoration we can hypothesize it