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Belluno

How Was Belluno Built

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The town's fabric is local limestone rather than the brick of the plain -- a straightforward consequence of what the mountains supply and the Piave could not carry upstream.

The Palazzo dei Rettori (1409-1499) is the set piece: a Venetian Gothic-Renaissance facade of arcades and mullioned windows, built for the Republic's governors and deliberately reading as Venice rather than as the Alps.

The Duomo is a sixteenth-century rebuilding, but its campanile is by Filippo Juvarra, completed in 1743 -- an unexpectedly grand piece of Piedmontese Baroque in a mountain town, and the landmark visible from the whole valley.

Two medieval gates survive, Porta Dojona and Porta Rugo, at either end of the spur, marking exactly how small the defended town was.

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