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Piazza delle Erbe

Valbelluna

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Piazza delle erbe
Piazza delle Erbe, via Rialto - 32100 Belluno (BL) IT

 Among the buildings that surround it stands the Monte di Pietà. Started in 1501 on the impetus of the preaching of the Servite friar Elia from Brescia, the palace was completed in 1531. It still retains the original entrance reinforced with iron bars, as well as part of the fresco decoration that originally was meant to cover the entire interior.

On the façade, besides the original symbol of the Monte, which is a life-sized "Pietà" in stone and a Venetian lion partially carved away by the Jacobins in 1797, numerous coats of arms of the Venetian rectors appear, who ensured the administrative and managerial autonomy of the Monte from repeated attempts at interference by the Council of Nobles. The related inscriptions, however, were carefully chiselled away by the Venetians themselves in 1691, following a decision against the excessive glorification of the rectors from the mainland. In the adjoining church of the Blessed Virgin of Health, under the portico on the ground floor, important works by Andrea Brustolon and Leonardo Ridolfi (1684-1758).

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