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Old May 31, 2022 | 10:26 PM
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The plateau of Cansiglio was a retreat for the partisan resistance fighting the german occupation. In August and September 1944 the partisans were attacked and defeated. On sattelite photos you still can see the several bomb craters. The plateau was long used as a mountain pasture. Nowadays there’s not many cows left. There’s a golf course and some houses that looked like holiday homes. Many of the touristical buildings like restaurants are abandoned. Obviously there’s not much to see.
















Typical and lovely Italian village (Spert) north of Cansiglio. With the mandatory war monument, mourning the losses of sons, brothers and fathers during both World Wars.






Chapel with a view (Valdenogher).




Romanesque basilica (Parrocchia di Santa Maria Annunziata) in Sedico. In Italy bell towers are very often built separately. But being so far away from the church is quite unusual.

Like many other romanesque churches this also was changed over the centuries. Other than the basilica in my home town this still has the romanesque apperance and windows, the latin cross and 1:3:1 layout of the nave, but on the inside you can spot „improvements“ like the gothic vaults.








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