Ugo Spezia, nuclear engineer originally from Colmirano with a passion for the history of our areas: “The Locks of Quero and Feltre” is the title of the book and the evening, with which we will go back in time to revisit the history of the Valley of the Piave between Quero and Feltre. Around the year 1000, in fact, the territory of Quero belonged to the bishop-count of Treviso and bordered the territory controlled by the bishop-count of Feltre.

Guarding the border between the two bishoprics, on either side, were two fortified systems: the Lock of Quero and the Lock of San Vittore. The Lock of Quero was made up of two bastions guarding the access to the Canal of the Piave, at the point where it was easiest to control the passage on the road that connected Treviso to Feltre.

 The older of the two bastions, called Bastia della Moschetta, dominated the so-called montada of Quero, while the second, more recent, was located at the summit of Monte Cornella.

The Lock of San Vittore, which stood in Anzù, at the gates of Feltre, was made up of three different fortifications. The first was a wall that included three towers and blocked the valley floor from the slopes of Monte Miesna to those of Monte Tomatico.

 The second was made up of the Castle of San Vittore, while the third was a sort of redoubt that dominated and protected the Castle of San Vittore from a secondary prominence of Monte Miesna. The history of these two fortified systems has its roots in the Roman era and constitutes, with some surprises, a fundamental part of the history of Veneto from the 10th to the 16th century.

Guest Ugo Spezia who will tell the historical notes on the fortifications of the “Canal del Piave”