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Stage Nineteen - Friday 25 May
Treviso-Alpe di Pampeago
197 kilometres, high mountain stage
Highest Point: 2,047 km
Here is a brief video of the stage preview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwKl1FRTbjU
And a bit of background as to the stage start city:Treviso, as to say “three visuals” (tre visus), means the ones which can be admired from Piazza Duomo, Piazza dei Signori and Piazza Sant'Andrea, corresponding to the three eminences selected by ancient people to establish their first settlements during the Pre-Roman era. Under the rule of Rome, Treviso bec0mes an important urban centre (Tarvisium), but due to its geographic position the city has to endure all the barbaric invasions.
After year Thousand, the University is founded but nonetheless Treviso cannot resist to its vocation of passing under the rule of earls, imperial deputies, aristocratic families and finally Venice, under whose domination it shall remain until the concession by the lagoon city of a kind of independence which will last up to the eighteenth century. That same eighteenth century features the acme of Treviso’s development, with the construction of Theatres (Dolfin, Onigo) and the building of palaces and monuments in the center of the city.
Unfortunately the era of splendor is followed by foreign occupation times: the first to rule the city are the French then, following the Campoformio Peace Treaty, the Austrians. Under the domination of the latter many public institutions are founded such as Schools, Postal Service, Law Courts, Railways. The whole historical center is rather attractive with its magnificent palaces ( Palazzo della Ragione, Monte di Pietà and della Prefettura) and religious monuments such as the Duomo, the Battistero and the San Nicolò Church. In a close neighborhood are also worth to be visited the beautiful aristocratic Manfrin-Margherita, Albrizzi-Franchetti, and Palazzi-Taverna villas, (the latter essentially for its park) as well as the magnificent Minelli mansion.
Stage Nineteen - Friday 25 May
Treviso-Alpe di Pampeago
197 kilometres, high mountain stage
Highest Point: 2,047 km
Here is a brief video of the stage preview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwKl1FRTbjU
And a bit of background as to the stage start city:Treviso, as to say “three visuals” (tre visus), means the ones which can be admired from Piazza Duomo, Piazza dei Signori and Piazza Sant'Andrea, corresponding to the three eminences selected by ancient people to establish their first settlements during the Pre-Roman era. Under the rule of Rome, Treviso bec0mes an important urban centre (Tarvisium), but due to its geographic position the city has to endure all the barbaric invasions.
After year Thousand, the University is founded but nonetheless Treviso cannot resist to its vocation of passing under the rule of earls, imperial deputies, aristocratic families and finally Venice, under whose domination it shall remain until the concession by the lagoon city of a kind of independence which will last up to the eighteenth century. That same eighteenth century features the acme of Treviso’s development, with the construction of Theatres (Dolfin, Onigo) and the building of palaces and monuments in the center of the city.
Unfortunately the era of splendor is followed by foreign occupation times: the first to rule the city are the French then, following the Campoformio Peace Treaty, the Austrians. Under the domination of the latter many public institutions are founded such as Schools, Postal Service, Law Courts, Railways. The whole historical center is rather attractive with its magnificent palaces ( Palazzo della Ragione, Monte di Pietà and della Prefettura) and religious monuments such as the Duomo, the Battistero and the San Nicolò Church. In a close neighborhood are also worth to be visited the beautiful aristocratic Manfrin-Margherita, Albrizzi-Franchetti, and Palazzi-Taverna villas, (the latter essentially for its park) as well as the magnificent Minelli mansion.
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