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City Walls
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The construction of
the first city walls
must have taken
place after 1179,
the year in which
Frederick I issued a
decree allowing
Drudo, the Bishop of
Feltre, to
strengthen the
defenses of the
town. The position
of the medieval
walls, with
irregularly spaced
towers, is preserved
in some places, and
is indicated by the
layout of later
buildings. The war
between Sigismund of
Austria and the
Venetian Republic in
1487 led to a
modernizing of the
defenses in line
with the new
techniques of siege
warfare, and was
undertaken (though
never completed) by
the engineer
Dionisio da Viterbo. |
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In 1489, under the
governorship of Girolamo Cappello,
the section between
the Imperial Gate
and a medieval tower
further to the east
was completed. In
1492, under the rule
of Domenico
Contarini, the
semicircular tower
between the Imperial
Gate and the
Pusterla Gate was
added. |
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Under Francesco Marcello, in 1494, the Pusterla Gate and the tower immediately to the east were finished. Both towers were demolished between the end of the 18th century and the early 19th century. In 1496, the walls
were extended as far
as the Oria Gate to the east. |
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Finally,
in 1502, under
Francesco Bollani,
the construction of
the walls to the
south and the
restoration of the
Oria Gate were
completed. After the
destruction of the
1509-1510 the walls
were hurriedly
repaired but were
only used for
customs purposes. |
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Region |
Veneto |
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Province |
Belluno. |
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Elevation |
325 m |
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Population |
20,560 |
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Demonym |
Feltrini |
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Time |
CET(UTC+1) |
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Postal |
32032 |
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Dialing |
0439 |
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Patron |
St.
Victor |
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