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Feltre (Venetian: Fèltre) is a town and comune of the province of Belluno in Veneto, northern Italy. A hill town in the southern reaches of the province, it is located on the Stizzon River, about 4 kilometres (2 miles) from its junction with the Piave, and 20 km (12 mi) southwest from Belluno. The Dolomites loom to the north of the town.

Panorama of Feltre in winter.
Panorama of Feltre in winter.
Feltre
Comune
Comune di Feltre
The Cathedral of Feltre.
Location of Feltre
Feltre
Location of Feltre in Italy
Feltre
Feltre (Veneto)
Coordinates: 46°01′07″N 11°54′36″E
CountryItaly
RegionVeneto
ProvinceBelluno (BL)
Frazionisee list
Government
  MayorViviana Fusaro
Area
  Total100 km2 (40 sq mi)
Elevation
325 m (1,066 ft)
Population
 (December 31, 2007)[2]
  Total20,560
  Density210/km2 (530/sq mi)
DemonymFeltrini
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
32032
Dialing code0439
Patron saintSaints Victor and Corona
Saint dayMay 14
WebsiteOfficial website

An area incorporating Feltre and 12 contiguous municipalities is known as Feltrino [it]. In 2014, the Feltrino area was formalised in the Unione Montana Feltrina (Feltrino Mountain Community).


History


It was known in Roman times as Feltria and described as an oppidum by Pliny,[3] who assigned its foundation to the Alpine tribe of the Rhaetians. The city obtained the status of municipium in 49 BC with its citizens inscribed into the Roman tribe of Menenia. In spite of its rigorous climate, which led a Roman author, perhaps Caesar, to write:

Feltria perpetuo niveum damnata rigore
Atque mihi posthac haud adeunda, vale[4]

Feltria lay on a Roman road mentioned in the Antonine Itinerary as passing from Opitergium (Oderzo) through Feltria to Tridentum (Trento).[5]

The Church of St. Roch and the Castle of Alboin.
The Church of St. Roch and the Castle of Alboin.

After the fall of the Western Empire, under which it had developed into a flourishing city, it became a Lombard dominion. Later in the Middle Ages, it was ruled by Ezzelino III da Romano, by the Camino family, and then by the Scaligeri of Verona, from 1315 to 1337. Feltre was subsequently under Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, the da Carrara and the Visconti until 1404, when, together with Belluno, it was conquered by the Republic of Venice. In 1499 it received a new line of walls.

In 1509 the center of the town was mostly destroyed during battles between the Venetians and the League of Cambrai, and later rebuilt with a characteristic 16th-century style. In 1797, after the capitulation of Venice to Napoleon, it was ruled for some time by the French. Napoleon made his minister of war, Henri Jacques Guillaume Clarke, Duke of Feltre in 1807. After the Congress of Vienna (1814), Feltre was assigned to the Austrian Empire, to which it remained until it was joined to the Kingdom of Italy in 1866.

It was besieged by Austria during World War I.

During World War II, Adolf Hitler demanded a meeting with Benito Mussolini to discuss his strategy for defending Italy from the Allied Armies since the Axis armies had just surrendered Tunis to the British Army, giving Allied Armies total control of North Africa. This meeting took place on July 19, 1943 in Feltre, Italy.[6]

Notable people of Feltre include printer Panfilo Castaldi, Friar Minor, missionary and founder of Monti di Pietà Blessed Bernardine of Feltre, humanist educator Vittorino da Feltre and painter Morto da Feltre.


Main sights


Outside the city are:


Frazioni


Anzù, Arson, Canal, Cart, Cellarda, Croci, Farra, Foen, Grum, Lamen, Lasen, Mugnai, Nemeggio, Pont, Pren, Sanzan, Tomo, Umin, Vellai, Vignui, Villabruna, Villaga, Villapaiera, Zermen.


Twin towns – sister cities


Feltre is twinned with:[7][8]




References


  1. "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  2. "Popolazione Residente al 1° Gennaio 2018". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  3. Among Rhaetica oppida in Natural History iii, 130, amending Fertini to Feltrini.
  4. "Feltria, condemned to the rigor of eternal snows, from me too, who henceforth will scarcely approach you, Farewell!" The distich, given here as in Charles Stephens and Nicholas Lloyd, Dictionarium historicum... (London, 1686) s.v. "Feltria, is often attributed to Julius Caesar (Robert Pierpont, Notes and Queries, 26 October 1907, p. 332)..
  5. William Smith, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, s.v. "Feltria".
  6. Shirer, William (1960) [1959]. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. Simon and Schuster, Inc. p. 996.
  7. "Migrazione e integrazione nel convegno internazionale tenuto a Feltre". marcopologeie.eu (in Italian). Feltre. Retrieved 2020-05-22.
  8. "Villes jumelées". dudelange.lu (in French). Dudelange. Retrieved 2020-05-22.




На других языках


[de] Feltre

Feltre (deutsch veraltet „Felters“) ist eine Stadt mit 20.564 Einwohnern (Stand: 31. Dezember 2019) in der italienischen Provinz Belluno, Region Venetien.
- [en] Feltre

[es] Feltre

Feltre es un pueblo y también una comuna de la provincia de Belluno en el Véneto italiano. Enclavado en una colina al suroeste alcanza el extremo de la provincia, se localiza a las orillas del río Stizzon, alrededor de 4 km de su unión con el río Piave, y a 20 km al suroeste de Belluno. Los dolomitas se asoman al norte del pueblo.

[ru] Фельтре

Фельтре (итал. Feltre) — коммуна в Италии, располагается в провинции Беллуно области Венеция.



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