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In allestimento

Architettura della villa Veneta

Breve storia di Venezia

Giardini

Precorso tra le ville

I commerci

La villa nei secoli

Villeggiatura

 

Manufatti the more antichi recovered in the zone to collinare asolana and the countries limitrofi authorize to assume the passage to us of the man in wrap of the asolani reliefs approximately 30,000 or 40,000 years A.C., that is in the recent Medium Paleolitico. The stanziale presence of the man in the Asolano comes made to go back to the period between the XI and X the century a.C., that is to the age of the bronze. Subsequently, around the VIII-VII sec. a.C., they arrived the Paleoveneti and with they it begins the age of the iron. Asolo rose on an preexisting takeover paleoveneto. Between the II and the I sec.a.C. Asolo endured the infuence of the culture, the civilization and the traditions Roman. After the social war of the 90 a.C., the Veneti remained faithful to Rome and in the 89 a.C. they will receive the Latin right, the " Jus Latii ". In the 49 a.C. Asolo obtained the full citizenship Roman with the title of Municipium.

From this moment the importance of our city went increasing and it caught up the apex of the pr0sperity in the period of the first empire Roman. Perhaps its pianeggiante territory already at the beginning of the sec. a.C. was interested from the participation of centuriazione. The importance of Asolo Roman is testified from the rests of ancient public works realized in city within: large the Terme, the aqueduct
and even the Theatre. The centuries began then for Asolo oxen of the invasions of migranti people (V-X sec. d.C.) that they carried destruction, epidemics and scarcities. Relative a resumption was had under the domination Longobarda (569-774), whose laws were conserved for centuries.

Nacquero then the Common ones that they had to defend the autonomy fighting against Barbarossa emperor. The Common one of 1164 Treviso was already consolidato nel and comprewndeva also the asolano  territory. In this period of insecurity, between the end of the XII and the beginning of XII the century, it came built up the forterzza called the Rocca that oggio is the symbol of our city. Subsequently
Asolo was contesa from several Lordships: they began the siblings and Ezzelino and Alberico from Roman, continued the castles, from Fireplace, the Scaligeri, the Carraresi. this last during the period of their occupation (XIV century) made to cestruire the town-walls of walls citizens, than in part we can admire still today.

In the 1337 Asolo already was sottopmessa spontaneously to the Rpubblica Serenissa di Venzia, in order to perhaps achieve peace and emergency. Between the 1489 and the 1510 accommodated the reign of  Caterina Cornaro, former esiliata Regina of Cyprus. To Asolo it lead a Sfarzosa life and received prewsso its short artists and men of letters like the umanista venezianoe its cousins Petro Bembo (1470 -
1547) that in its book " Asolani ", it celebrates the glad and
spensierata life that was carried out near the court. The sovran not satisfied of the castle, that it had to Asolo was made to construct little distant, to Altivole an inhabited complex more wid e one, nicknamed the Barco. Our city remained under the Veneziana lordship until the fall of the Republic uses of Napoleone in 1797.Between the six hundred and the seven hundred Asolo assumed the structure urban planning that still today we can admire, becoming uin
pleasant place and only a lot loved from men of letters and artists. They rose new palaces and villas and were decorated with pregevoli putties other already existing villas in the 1815 Asolo passed under the dominion of the Austro-hungarian empire. In 1866 it entered to make part of the Reign of Italy. In ours it participated direttemente to the two world wars. In the pril but, also being motion near the forehead place between the Pave and the Grappa, it did not endure serious destructions. They loved asolo poets, writers and artists
like the teatrale attrice Eleonora Duse, the English poet Robert Browning, the English esploratrice Freja Stark.