urrent excavation works will help the Archaeology Office for Veneto to solve any doubt on the topography of the ancient Feltre. After the Roman age, Feltre has been sacked several times by the Barbarians and pushed towards the Forum Romanum, near the fortress. Under the bishops' control and the Earls of Feltre's (Earls of Feltre and Belluno starting from 1204, whose common aim was the fight against the trevigiani) it included also the Primiero and the Sugana valleys in its territory. It was later on taken over by the families da Romano, da Camino, Scaligeri and Visconti up to 1404 when the town offers itself to Venice. This anniversary is celebrated every year during the first week-end of August through the famous Palio. The 4 boroughs of the town, through a parade of historic costumes, compete for 15 golden ducats (the reward for the first celebration of the devotion to the Serenissima Republic

he town reached its highest splendour during the Venetian domination up to 1509 when during the Cambrai war it was sacked by the Hapsburg troops and razed to the ground in 1510. Its rapid reconstruction is proved by an old town centre featuring a typical 16th-century architectural structure. After the fall of the Venetian republic in 1797, Feltre was taken over by the French (most tombstones were destroyed or lost during this period in order to overshadow the Venice record), then by the Austrians, later annexed to the Regno Lombardo Veneto up to 1866, year of the foundation of the Regno d'Italia.