Franco Bastianon’s Conference

“They are robust, clean, sparing in words and movements”: these are the succinct traits attributed to the Cimbri in the “Nuova Rivista Forestale” of 1879.

Other references regarding their attitudes and work capabilities can be gleaned from the birth records preserved in the archives of Tambre and Fregona, where various activities are associated with the names of the Cimbri: “tamiseri”, “scatoleri”, “carpenters”, and “artists”. Their presence is documented starting from the early 1800s, when the Azzalini brothers, originating from the Asiago Plateau, settled in Cansiglio and founded the village of Pian dei Lovi, the first of several groups resulting from subsequent migrations in the area.

Today it is possible to visit them by walking along the paths traced by the associations that keep the Cimbrian cultural heritage alive.

This heritage will be presented by Franco Bastianon for the FRIENDS of the MUSEUM, a member of the Association and author of the book “Tamiseri and Cimbrian Scatoleri in Cansiglio in the 1800s”, on Saturday, March 29 in Sala Bianchi at 5:00 PM.

A researcher and scholar of not only local history, Bastianon is already known to the public of the Friends of the Museum for his learned and documented conference about the history of Cansiglio in the 18th century during the government of the Serenissima.

Born in Venice, with a degree in Mathematics from the University of Padova, and a managerial career, Franco Bastianon lives in Fregona, at the foot of Cansiglio, a human, historical, and economic reality to which, drawing from sources not only local, he has dedicated and continues to dedicate his literary and archival interests, in order to reconstruct the picture of a distant past that is still intimately connected with our reality today.

Free entry.