Valle di Cadore

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Valle di Cadore
Country Flag of Italy Italy
Region Veneto
Province Province of Belluno (BL)
Mayor
Elevation m
Area 41.3 km²
Population
 - Total (as of Dec. 2004) 2,092
 - Density 51/km²
Time zone CET, UTC+1
Coordinates 46°25′N 12°20′E
Gentilic
Dialing code 0435
Postal code 32040
Frazioni Venas di Cadore


Location of Valle di Cadore in Italy

Valle di Cadore is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Belluno in the Italian region Veneto, located about 110 km north of Venice and about 35 km northeast of Belluno.

As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 2,092 and an area of 41.3 km2.[1]

The municipality of Valle di Cadore contains the frazione (subdivision) Venas di Cadore.

Valle di Cadore borders the following municipalities: Cibiana di Cadore, Ospitale di Cadore, Perarolo di Cadore, Pieve di Cadore and Vodo di Cadore.

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[edit] History

In the conflict between Venice and the Empire, at the beginning of the 16th century, during the War of the League of Cambrai, the Venetians and Cadorines defeated the Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I in 1508 at the so-called Battle of Valle di Cadore.

During the period 1530-50, as was foreshadowed by his "Martyrdom of St. Peter", Titian devoted himself more and more to the dramatic style, producing historical scenes, of which unhappily it is difficult to judge, the most characteristic having been much injured or destroyed; thus, the "Battle of Cadore", the artist's greatest effort to master movement and to express even tumult, his most violent attempt to go out of himself and achieve the heroic.

[edit] Demographic evolution

[edit] Twin towns

[edit] Sources

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This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913. Titian

[edit] References

  1. ^ All demographics and other statistics: Italian statistical institute Istat.