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Feltre, beautiful Lady of the Dolomites, even in winter.

felt and the lady of the Dolomites. Because of its history, its unique fortified center for conservation, size, monumentality. Queens are indicated and Pearl of the Dolomites resort known for majestic landscape and sports. Feltre, Belluno in the Dolomites that are the setting and background, combining buildings, churches, sixteenth-century walls, castle, climbs and corners and stairways. And, on top of the hill, Piazza Maggiore.
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HISTORY OF FELT

pre-Roman times: it is certain to be extremely ancient origin not just the award to the founders, given in gradually Hills, Networks and Etruscans.
In the sixth century BC the city was fortified by the networks. In
is dated 172 BC the Roman conquest in 140 AD and is recognized Feltham Hall Menenia aggregate to the Tribe. Feltham is important and flourishing city, passing close by the Roman military road Claudia Augusta Altinate.

Photo: Claudia Augusta Altinate milestone, Villa Centeno Cesiomaggiore (BL)

In 409 the city was devastated by Alaric, in 455 by Attila in 477 by Great Danes .
With the invasion of the Lombards (569) undergoes Feltre still seems to be ruins and Alboino to determine the movement of the city from the top of the hill of the goats, however, established fact for later feudal times.
comes in 776 Orlando, grandson of Charlemagne.
In 900 the Hungarians arrived.
the end of the tenth century, after a lapse of some government local families (by Romagna, Lusa, Court, Rainone) the domain goes to the bishop's power (974).

Pictures: Castelbrando

Until the mid-thirteenth century, the situation remains confused by struggles between Guelphs and Ghibellines, and contrasts with nearby cities: Treviso, Bassano, Trento and also Belluno.
1193: Feltre and Belluno, allies, beat Treviso winning Casteldardo.
1220: Treviso, who had the loss of their leader by Gualperto Cavaso, besiege Feltre, without results, destroy, outside the walls, the Cathedral and the Bishop's Palace, mills and villages.
1248: Feltre falls under the rule of Ezzelino Romano, and for a long period, it is passed from hand going to Camino, the Scala family, the Dukes of Carinthia, the Bohemians, the Emperor Charles IV, King of Hungary, Duke Leopold In Austria, in Carrara, and finally to the Visconti of Milan.
1404: Gian Galeazzo Visconti dies. Feltre, like other cities, he decided to offer the Republic of Venice, which had begun expanding into the mainland.

Photo: S. District sbandieratori Stephen Palio

1414, the city passed to the Counts of Gorizia.
1416: the Venetians take over the holding it firmly in 1420.
1509-1511: The Venetian, peaceful, interrupted by the attack of the troops of Maximilian of Austria, the League of Cambrai. the city was taken and lost several times. On July 1, 1509 the felts give up, then pushed back the imperials 24, August 3 Maximilian's troops broke into the city massacring and destroying. In November, the rebellion of the pads for the kidnapping of Paola, wife of Jerome Lusa. On July 1, 1510 returning troops of Maximilian for three days looting and burning the city.
1519-20: Venice reconstructs Feltre giving the current arrangement.
1551: published in Venice, the Statutes of Feltre, approved in 1406 by Doge Michele Steno.
1797: French domination. The city was occupied March 13, 1797.
1798: Austrian rule as a result of the Treaty of Campoformido.
1805: Back in the Veneto Feltre, taken by Napoleon I.
1813: reoccupied by the Austrians enter the Kingdom of Lombardy-Veneto.
1848-1859: takes part in the riots of the Risorgimento.
1866: August 14 Bersaglieri the Italians into the city.
1917: Feltham, after the defeat of Kobarid in World War I, was occupied on November 12 by the Austro-Hungarian troops.
1918: October 31, the city was taken by Italian forces during the last battle before the victorious conclusion of the conflict.

Photo: Museum of the Great War, Caorera Vas (BL)