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