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Andraz Castle

Andraz Castle was the most southern Tyrol and belonged to the Prince-Bishop of Brixen.
It is located just north of the mines Selva di Cadore: Fursil mines, where metal was mined for sword blades.
His feudal lord was more important Guadagnino Avoscano who took the title Lord of the 'High Agordino, was a friend and ally of Can Grande della Scala, lord of Verona.
Its most famous guest was undoubtedly Nicholas of Cusa, philosopher and humanist, famous, but also Prince-Bishop of Brixen, and he defended himself by closing themselves in the castle when it was in conflict with the Count of Tyrol.
In 1850, about his last owner got off the roof and in this so showed that the castle was no more. He had therefore the right not to pay taxes on the property and went to live elsewhere.
today remains an impressive ruin with a high wall, 180 cm thick.

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Agordo was known to ancient times for its mines of iron, copper and silver. In 1840, the mines provided 4000 tons of copper, 6000 of vitriol and 400 sulfur. It employed 475 workers and 275 miners. Going Agordino then there was the old mine Fursil (at Selva di Cadore) which gave an iron suitable for making fine swords. The Emperor Frederick Barbarossa became interested in the possession of the mine as early as 1177. In the centuries after the mine was contested between the Prince Bishop of Brixen, the Count of Tyrol, the Patriarch of Aquileia and the Venetian Republic. The iron Fursil was largely worked in Belluno. In the seventeenth century the forge swords Belluno produced 25,000 a year. These swords were used in part from Venice, a good amount was then sold to foreign countries. You know contracts with British merchants. The exploitation of the mine ceased in 1753 for the Fursil exhausted the mainstream.