Pieve

Pieve di Cadore lies among the forested mountains north of Belluno. Its palace of the Magnificent Community was built in 1447, with a tower completed in 1491, as the seat of the council governing the district. Cadore's timber was valuable to Venice for buildings and ships, and the painter Titian was born in a family involved in the timber trade. The town's fortifications guarded an important route through the Alpine valleys.