There are three ancient passages that take the visitor to the old city. Three city gates, all with particular names that echo a story to be known.
The city gate road is a splendid walk on a mostly pedestrian area. You will walk inside the ancient city center (piazza delle erbe) still used today as a fruit and vegetable market (the herbs) here, you can visit the Monte di Pietà where the Bellunese in difficulty went to ask for loans mortgaging their belongings. Hidden between the Monte di Pietà and the square’s bar, do not miss a visit to the ancient church of San Pietro.
Narrow streets, always busy with traffic from the Belluno area, protected by the palaces of the ancient and powerful Belluno families will knock you at the door of the Gregorian Seminary and the structure of the neighboring Ospedale dei Battuti.
The visit ends with the exit from the main gate of the city: “Porta Dojona” and the visit to the currently active Municipal Theater.
Not to be missed..
The route is very easy to follow, suitable also for families with children. All external route. All the buildings are currently inhabited and can only be visited from the outside.
Renaissance building, raised on an older house dating to the mid of XIV century, used as a recovery and hospice by the Flagellants Confraternity meeting in School built just across the street and now the seat of the State Archive, after being restored in the Eighties, when were found and cleaned the frescoes (from XV…
The gate got its name from the near corner tower of the city walls, called “Dojon” (which is the local middle age form of the english word “dungeon”), with whom it used to be part of a fortified system, for a short period also bishops castle, on the north-east corner of the ancient walls. The…
Neoclassical building designed by Giuseppe Segusini in 1833-35 on the place of the ancient city grains storage (there is a last piece, the old architrave, fixed to wall on the rear of the theatre), a much smaller building that used to exist beside Porta Dojona, leaning on the city wall . On the façade, similar…
Opened on May 15th 1865, at the end of fifty years of Austrian rule, as a patriotic symbol of the cultural unity of Italy although still divided at that time. Actually it was just a new dedication, since the bronze bust of Dante was placed on top of the older venetian Renier gate, built in…
Typical XVI century building, with its structure with a high arcade on the ground floor and the double three-windows balcony on the upper floors. The façade, under the highest balcony, still preserves some fragments of the original fresco decorations, partly repainted by Giovanni De Min in the mid XIX century, but again cancelled in 1903.…
Started in 1501, after the preaching of the Servite friar Elia da Brescia, the palace was completed in 1531. It it still shows its original street door strengthened with iron bands and part of the inside fresco paintings, once covering every internal wall. On the façade the symbol of the “Monte”, a German statue of…
On the site of an older lodge built in 1347, the branch of the Costantini family arriving from Cadore valley to Belluno built its palace between 1471 (as testified by the coat of arms of the venetian Rector Benedetto Priuli carved in the capitol of the corner column) and 1473 (on the façade there is…
Built by the Franciscan friars in 1326, one century after their first arrival in Belluno. The original church was weakened by an earthquake in 1709, and required an heavy intervention: it was demolished and completely rebuilt in 1750, following a project by the Franciscan friar Ludovico Pagani, moving backwards the façade, as we can still…
Built at first as a Franciscan monastery, for a community recorded in Belluno since the XIII century. The construction was later completely rebuilt beside the nearby church of St Peter, erected in 1326, and again thoroughly readapted in 1750. Inside the best testimony of the architectural evolution of the complex are the two cloisters: the…
Sacred building, simple and essential, started at the beginning of XIV century for the Flagellants “Scuola” or Confraternity, whose first record in Belluno is dated back to 1260 and which was formally created with a statute and a register of the brethren’s names in 1310. Two inscriptions written in gothic characters remember the rising of…
The historic southern gate to the city, from the old river port of Borgo Piave. At the beginning of XIX century have been heavily modified the side fortresses which defended the gate, the two little towers that flanked it (le “Torricelle”) and the large tower that existed on the left. Of the original structure, entered…
Today’s building is the result of a XVIII century intervention that assembled the XV and XVI century houses of the Coraulo family (there is still the coat of arms over the entrance portal) and Bolzanio family, whence came the two greatest bellunese Renaissance scholars, the Franciscan friar Urbano Bolzanio (1442-1524), who in 1497 published in…
A XV century structure, with later enlargements and changes, that were necessary to adapt the building to the rapidly increasing nearby palace that Venice was raising to host its governors. Peculiar and rare the solution adopted for the ground floor arcade, with the twin central columns. The building also testifies the passage from one branch…
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