Pieve di Cadore
Pieve di Cadore is a town with 3956 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) in the province of Belluno, Italy. It is situated in 878 m at the confluence of the rivers Piave (from Auronzo ) and Boite ( Cortina d' Ampezzo ). The community is made up next to the main town from the villages NEBBIU, Pozzale, Sottocastello and Tai di Cadore.
The city is the birthplace of Titian, whose alleged birthplace can be visited. The town had a station on the railway Dolomites.
History
The area at the confluence of the Piave and Boite was inhabited prehistoric. The Romans conquered the paläovenetische precursor Lagole settlement in the 2nd century BC. In the High Middle Ages the military stronghold of the Signoria was there Camino (1138-1335); , built by her castle no longer exists. Together with nine other settlements in the Cadore Pieve founded in 1338 the Magnifica Comunità di Cadore, the, extensive autonomy guaranteed the predominantly Ladin ridden country under the Republic of Venice, to which it belonged from 1420 until the Napoleonic conquest of 1797.
1808 brought the Emperor Napoleon I. his foreign minister Jean -Baptiste de Champagny Nompère Duke of Cadore.
After the Congress of Vienna in Pieve di Cadore, such as the Veneto was temporarily Habsburg- Austrian, but fell after the Risorgimento in 1866 returned to Italy.
Since the second half of the 20th century, the capital of the province of Belluno developed for summer and winter. At the same time he is a cultural attraction by a targeted " Titian - tourism " has become, although there is only a single painting by the Master at his birthplace.
Attractions
- In Piazza Tiziano with monumental statue of the artist is the Palazzo Comunale, which dates from the time of the Magnifica Comunità di Cadore and was rebuilt in the 16th century on the foundations of a precursor. It houses paintings by Titian relatives Marco Vecellio and Cesare Vecellio and other artists from the 16th and 17th centuries. In the palace an archaeological museum is also set up in which found objects ( votive paintings, weapons, everyday objects, statuettes, coins ) from the paläovenetischen settlement Lagole are collected (from the 5th century BC).
- In the parish church from the 19th century (Santa Maria nascente ) is the only painting by Titian, a late work, Maria depicting with child from the Holy Tiziano, Bishop of Oderzo, and the Saint Andrew, stored, where a shepherd with a pilgrim's staff left outside in image has been identified as a self portrait of the artist. Furthermore, there are other paintings in the Church of the Vecellio family, including a Last Supper by Cesare; Professor Giuseppe Fiocco (University of Padua, 1884-1971 ) has set the unverified hypothesis, the heads of Christ and Peter were executed by Titian. Late Gothic features pieces from the German culture are a triptych by Hans Klocher of Brixen ( 1450 ) and a Pietà, Giles Good stone of Wiener Neustadt attributed ( 1475 ).
- A stone house from the 15th century, greatly changed by means incorporated in 1900 outdoor wooden staircase and balcony, is traditionally handed down as the birthplace of Titian, without that there is a latest valid proof. It contains a small museum with memorabilia ( manuscripts, prints and reproductions ).
- A curiosity of the city is also a spectacle Museum, which is explained by the fact that the production of glasses in Cadore since the late 19th century tradition. 2000 pieces from around the world from the Middle Ages to the modern era are brought together, the optimal tried the ophthalmologic knowledge to reconcile with the respective fashion ideas of the time. For example, there are monocle with gold and precious stone trimming of French origin, english eyeglasses in ivory and jade in Chinese.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Titian ( between 1477 and 1490-1576 ), painter
- Pink Pompanin (* 1984), curler
- Silvano Varettoni (* 1984), skier
- Simone Bertazzo (* 1982 ), bobsledder