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".
[1] 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.
[2] Raixe Venete's leading event takes place every year on the first weekend of September in Cittadella.
[4] 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,[5] and intellectuals and opinion-makers, such as Vittorio Feltri, Carlo Lottieri and Lorenzo Del Boca.