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HISTORICAL BUILDINGS AND MONUMENTS

The Palazzo della Magnifica Comunita` di Cadore (Pieve): The Palazzo della Magnifica Comunita` and its tower were originally built between 1444 and 1492. In 1509, during the so-called War of the League of Cambray, both palazzo and tower were sacked and destroyed. In 1525 the building was rebuilt and in 1588, following a serious fire, the reconstruction work began which, apart from a few subsequent modifications, gave the building its current appearance. At the base of the tower there is a plaque dedicated in 1875 to Pietro Fortunato Calvi the commander of the victorious revolt in the Cadore valley in 1848.

The House of Titian's Birth (Pieve): Fourteenth century, bought (1926) and restored at the beginning of the twentieth century by the Magnifica Comunita` di Cadore, the official opening that followed the restoration of the house took place in 1932. A royal decree (no. 1725) of 17th December 1922 declared it a national monument. To be found at a short distance from the square of the same name on Via Arsenale, Titian's birthplace is embellished by a wooden staircase and terrace on the facade and iron gratings on the windows. The room on street level, originally the seed and foodstuffs warehouse, is now used as the ticket office and exhibition room and contains photographic reproductions of Titian's works. On the first floor, along the corridor, is the kitchen with its fireplace and its traditional floor paved with stone slabs, two other small rooms and a living room, possibly the study of father Gregorio, timber merchant and man of arms. On the walls there are reproductions of letters exchanged by Titian and the Magnifica Comunita` alongside prints and engravings of works by the artist.

La Chiesa Arcidiaconale di Santa Maria Nascente (The Archdea-conry Church of the Assumption of the Virgin) (Pieve): The church was rebuilt between the end of the eighteenth and the first decades of the nineteenth centuries, following the demolition of the previous fifteenth century Gothic style building which was in ruins. Traces of this earlier building remain not only in the works of Titian but also in the examples of German wood sculpture belonging to the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries inside the church. The facade was unveiled in 1876.

The house of Tiziano l'Oratore (Pieve): A fourteenth century building belonging to the Vecellio family among whom Tiziano (1538-1612) nick-named 'The Orator' because of his role as ambassador in Venice and namesake and relative of the famous painter, the house is situated in Piazza Tiziano. It is notable for its harmonious proportions and for its cornices and its stone coat of arms and inside for its wooden ceilings and its small vaulted study frescoed with 'grotesques'. The house is owned by the Magnifica Comunita` di Cadore. It is the seat of the Centre for Titian Studies and hosts exhibitions.

Palazzo Jacobi Solero (Pieve): Close to the Palazzo della Magnifica Comunita`, on the eastern side of the Piazza, the building is probably seventeenth century. It was the residence of Taddeo Jacobi (1753-1841), leader of the 'Cernide', the volunteer troops of the Cadore, and ambassador in Vienna and in Napoleon's Court. Napoleon, in fact, had such a high opinion of his intelligence and culture that he made a futile attempt to invite him to work in Paris. Jacobi dedicated himself so much to research into, and the study of, the Cadore that he is unanimously considered to have been the first historian of the region. A bifurcated window embellishes the austere facade of the building and the interior is characterised by wooden ceilings, stone arches and a beautiful stone fireplace. The Banca CariVerona currently occupies it.

Casa Sampieri Vallenzasca (Pieve): Situated on one side of Titian's house and originally also the property of the Vecellio family, the facade of the house is embellished by a rounded iron balustrade, by cornices and by traces of frescoes, typical of fifteenth century country houses in the Cadore. The interior contains a fresco depicting the Madonna and Child that a legend attributes to Titian as a child.

Palazzo Fabris (Pieve): This seventeenth century building is situated in the square, to the left of the Magnifica Comunita`. It was used by the Captain of the Cadore as a residence from the seventeenth century when, as a result of inadequate maintenance, the castle became uninhabitable.

Casa Genova (Pieve): Dating to the fifteenth century, the building is situated at the edge of Piazza Tiziano in the direction of Via Salvadei.

Statue of Titian (Pieve): Situated in the square of the same name in the place previously occupied by Pieve's fountain, this bronze statue (by Antonio Dal Zotto,1880) is on an octagonal platform (by Giuseppe Ghedina) engraved with a coat of arms of the Cadore in relief, the San Marco lion and a list of the names of the main works of the artist (The Deposition, The Presentation at the Temple, The Assumption, St. Peter the Martyr, Callisto and Venus).

Plaque to Pietro Fortunato Calvi (Pieve): Situated on the road to the fort of Montericco in Pieve, this is the work of Antonio Maraini and was laid in 1931.

Plaque to P. F. Calvi, hero of the Risorgimento (Pieve): This triangular plaque in Castellavazzo stone (by Valentino Panciera Besarel and Giovanni Battista De Lotto) shows a bust of Calvi and the coats of arms of the Cadore, of Agordo and of Forno di Zoldo, united in a league in the struggle for independence.

Roman Archaeological Site (Pieve): During the construction of the council buildings in 1950-1, the remains of a Roman house dating to the middle of the second century B.C, were found, complete with a mosaic and a heating system (hipocaustum or suspensurae). The discovery prompted excavations that led to the uncovering of a much fragmented mosaic floor in opus tessellatum, part of which was then taken up and is now in the Cadore Museum (Magnifica Comunita`).

The Carciofono Fountain (Tai): Built in 1865 by Ferdinando and Antonio De Polo to a design of the engineer Luigi Osvaldo Palatini, the fountain was built using Castellavazzo stone. It was restored in 2002.

Memorial Stone commemorating the Battle of the Cadore (Nebbiu`): This stone plaque commemorating the meeting in battle of the second of March 1508 between the troops of Maximilian the First of the Habsburg Empire, for the League of Cambray, and the Venetian Army and its allies in the Cadore, is situated on State Road no 51 Alemagna in the Rusecco area.

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