Pieve di Cadore

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Pieve di Cadore
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Pieve di Cadore (Italy)
Pieve di Cadore
Country Italy
region Veneto
province Belluno  (BL)
Coordinates 46 ° 26 '  N , 12 ° 22'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 25 '45 "  N , 12 ° 22' 30"  E
height 878  m slm
surface 66.6 km²
Residents 3,729 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 56 inhabitants / km²
Factions Nebbiù, Pozzale, Sottocastello, Tai, Damos
Post Code 32044
prefix 0435
ISTAT number 025039
Popular name pievani
Website Community website

Pieve di Cadore is a town with 3729 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the province of Belluno , Italy . It is 878 m above sea level at the confluence of the rivers Piave (from Auronzo di Cadore ) and Boite ( Cortina d'Ampezzo ). In addition to the main town, the municipality consists of the villages Nebbiù, Pozzale, Sottocastello and Tai di Cadore.

The city is the birthplace of Titian , whose presumed birthplace can be visited. The place had a train station on the Dolomitenbahn .

history

General view of Pieve

The area at the confluence of the Piave and Boite rivers was already inhabited prehistorically. The Romans subjugated the paleovenetic precursor settlement of Làgole in the 2nd century BC. In the High Middle Ages the place was a military base of the Signoria da Camino (1138-1335); the fort she built no longer exists. Together with nine other settlements in Cadore , Pieve founded the Magnifica Communità di Cadore in 1338, which guaranteed the predominantly Ladin country extensive autonomy under the Republic of Venice , to which it belonged from 1420 to the Napoleonic conquest in 1797.

In 1808, Emperor Napoleon I made his Foreign Minister Jean-Baptiste Nompère de Champagny Duke of Cadore.

After the Congress of Vienna , Pieve di Cadore, like all of Veneto, was temporarily part of the Habsburg Empire, but fell back to Italy after the Risorgimento in 1866.

Since the second half of the 20th century, the capital of the province of Belluno has developed into a summer resort and winter sports resort. At the same time, it has become a cultural attraction through a targeted "Tizian tourism", although there is only one painting by the master in his place of birth.

Attractions

Piazza Tiziano with Palazzo Comunale and Tizian statue
Titian's birth house in Pieve di Cadore
  • On the Piazza Tiziano with a monumental statue of the artist stands the Palazzo Comunale , which dates from the time of the Magnifica Communità di Cadore and was rebuilt in the 16th century on the foundations of a predecessor. It houses paintings by Titian's relatives Marco Vecellio and Cesare Vecellio as well as other artists from the 16th and 17th centuries. In the palace there is also an archaeological museum, in which finds (votive pictures, weapons, everyday objects, statuettes, coins) from the paleovenetic settlement of Làgole (from the 5th century BC) are collected.
  • In the parish church from the 19th century ( Santa Maria Nascente ) is the only painting by Titian a late work, Madonna with child from the Holy Tiziano, Bishop of Oderzo performing, and the Holy Andrew, stored, and a shepherd with a pilgrim's staff left outside in Image has been identified as the artist's self-portrait. There are also other paintings by the Vecellio family in the church, including a Last Supper by Cesare; Professor Giuseppe Fiocco (University of Padua, 1884–1971) put forward the unverified thesis that the heads of Christ and Peter were executed by Titian. Late Gothic pieces of equipment from the German culture are a winged altar by Hans Klocher von Brixen (around 1450) and a Pietà, attributed to Agidius Gutenstein von Wiener Neustadt (around 1475).
  • A stone house from the 15th century, heavily modified by the wooden external staircase and balcony installed around 1900, is traditionally passed down as the house where Titian was born, without there being any definitive evidence of this. It includes a small museum with memorabilia (manuscripts, prints and reproductions).
  • Another curiosity of the city is the glasses museum , which is explained by the fact that the manufacture of glasses in Cadore has been a tradition since the end of the 19th century. 2000 pieces from all over the world from the Middle Ages to modern times have been brought together, which tried to optimally harmonize the ophthalmological knowledge with the respective fashion ideas of the time. For example, there are monocles with gold and gemstones of French origin, English glasses in ivory and Chinese glasses in jade.

sons and daughters of the town

literature

  • Belluno e provincia. Guide d'Italia, ed. from Touring Club Italiano, Milan 2004, ISBN 88-365-3135-0

See also

About the name: Pieve

Web links

Commons : Pieve di Cadore  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
  2. ↑ Kristian Ghedina. In: munzinger.de. Munzinger Archive , accessed January 5, 2016 .