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BELLUNO (anc. Bellunum)

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 710 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BEC-BER
BELLUNO (anc. Bellunum) , a city and episcopal see of Venetia,
Italy
 , the
capital
  of the province of
Belluno
 , N. of Treviso, 54 M. by
rail
  and 28 m. direct. Pop. (1901) town, 6898; commune, 19,050. It is situated in the valley of the Piave, at its confluence with the Ardo, 1285 ft. above sea-level, among the
lower
  Venetian Alps. It was a Roman
municipium
 . In the middle ages it went through various vicissitudes; it fell under the dominion of Venice in 1511, and remained Venetian until 1797. Its buildings present Venetian characteristics; it has some good palaces, notably the fine early Lombard Renaissance Palazzo dei Rettori, now the seat of the prefecture. The
cathedral
 , erected after 1517 by Tullio Lombardo, was much damaged by the
earthquake
  of 1873, which destroyed a considerable portion of the town, though the campanile, 217 ft. high, erected in 17321743, stood firm. The
facade
  was never finished. Important remains of prehistoric settlements have been found in the vicinity; cf. G. Ghirardini in Notizie degli Scavi, 1883, 27, on the necropolis of Caverzano. (T. As.)


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