The walled town. Giorgione's home town. Castelfranco Veneto lives on the myth of the most extraordinary and mysterious artist of the XV century, considered as the puzzling genius of light and colour.Only a few of his works are available today, but they are among the most valued art works of Italy...
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The town was the result of a plan: it was built by the rulers of Padua
in 1220 to defend the most northern part of its territory, which
bordered the commune of Treviso, and that is how Cittadella became an
important strategic military and administrative centre opposing the
fortified structure of Castelfranco...
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Perhaps it was the same atmosphere of serene romanticism as today that made Petrarch fall in love with this medieval town. Still well preserved, elegant palaces and villas stand in the historical centre, while all around there is the quiet sentimentality of the Euganean hills.. .
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In Piazza Libertà there is the Town Hall, whose façade is embellished
with a magnificent 18th Century clock, and the Pretorio Palace of 13th
Century origins. In the same square, there is the vast complex of the
Remondini House...
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From the Pausolino hill, the majestic city wall connects the Upper Castle (Castello Superiore) to the Lower Castle (Castello Inferiore), and from the panoramic path that connects them you can enjoy an extraordinary view. Both built starting from 1312, the masses of these two constructions seem to watch the old own centre of Marostica...
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You can get lost even only looking at the wide, flat, uniform and fertile plain around Montagnana, while the roundish profiles of the Euganean hills appear at a distance together with the Berici hills. An extraordinary glance at a town, Montagnana, that looks like an austere and imposing medieval castle...
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The wide, sunny basin of the Valbelluna, marked to the north by the Feltrine mountains and to the south by Mount Tomatico, contains the town of FeltreRoman in origin, it has been contested for through the centuries for its strategic position. Prior to being spontaneously entrusted to Venice in 1404...
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