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Municipality of Belluno

Belluno (Belùn in Belluno, in the state of bëlum Ladin) is a town of 36,546 inhabitants, capital of the province, and largest town in the Valbelluna.
Piazza Duomo is the heart of the ancient city. In it the palazzi of the old city power: the palace of the Rectors of 1491 it says designed by Lorenzo Ghiberti (now the Prefecture), the red building (City Hall) in neo-Gothic style, the palace now houses the auditorium of bishops, erected in 1190 by the Bishop-Count Gerardo de 'FSX and the town tower decorated in '500 by Andrea Palladio. The cathedral, elevated to the rank of Minor Basilica by Pope John Paul II in 1980 in honor of his predecessor, John Paul I from Belluno, has three naves with an apse facing west, the Cathedral of the project is attributed to Tullio Lombardo, Venetian architect, who was in Belluno in 1517 when the construction work had already been started for some time under the direction of a foreman of the place, a certain Nicholas Tagliapietra, who also watch the Rector's Palace. The interior has three naves, contains works by Andrea Schiavone, Cesare Vecellio, Jacopo Bassano, Palma the Younger, Peter Muttoni, Gaspare Diziani, Tullio Lombardo.
The bell tower was designed by Philip Messina Juvarra: measures 71.98 meters and is the highest in the province. The altar in the crypt of the tomb consists of an ark Avoscano dating from the fourteenth century. Walking away Mezzaterra (decumannus the ancient Roman city) onto which dozens of buildings all date back to the temporal included between 1300 and 1600, we reach the church of St. Peter's is affiliated with one of the cloisters of the adjacent seminary Gregorian , as documented by an entry within the current Fulcis Chapel, the church of S. Peter was finished in 1326, after more than forty years of work, held in conjunction with the Jubilee of 1300 called by Boniface VIII. The church, built by the Friars Minor in Gothic style, now comes in Baroque style, with many works of art: four paintings by Andrea Schiavone (San Pietro, San Paolo and the Annunciation), three works by Sebastiano Ricci (a "New American Conversation "on the table, placed in the apse and two paintings," Beheading of St. John the Baptist "and" Calling of St. Peter, "in Fulcis Chapel, built in 1704 between the church and the vestry) and especially two-bladed wooden Andrea Brustolon . Above the sanctuary, there is a rare example of two manual organ fonocromico Giovan Battista De Lorenzi (1860).

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