The name of Altivole speaks of small rises in the ground, the altiòle, or else of a place good for fowling; the coat of arms, granted in 1937, kept the first reading and added what really counts here, water, with a wavy field beneath three hills. The first written mention is from 1297 and concerns a chapel; in 1339 a decree of doge Francesco Dandolo assigned the territory to the podesteria of Asolo, and from then on Altivole followed its neighbour's fate. That is how it came to have a queen: Caterina Cornaro, queen of Cyprus, held the lordship of Asolo from 1489 to 1510, and the barco that bears her name is what survives of a far larger complex.
The other thing to see is five centuries younger and stands in the cemetery of San Vito: the Brion tomb, which Carlo Scarpa built out of concrete, water and small gold mosaics, and which has become one of the most visited works of twentieth-century Italian architecture. In summer there are guided visits on Saturdays and Sundays. At Caselle, meanwhile, the archpriest's church carries the signature of Francesco Maria Preti and holds a monumental organ built by Antonio Barbini in 1758: for a municipality of seven thousand people, three centuries of important commissions in three different hamlets.
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📅 Every year, on 13 and 14 February
Altivole celebrates Saint Fosca on 13 February and Saint Valentine on 14 February, in the Church of Santa Fosca. In the hamlet of San Vito, the town also holds the Brion Tomb, a masterpiece by architect Carlo Scarpa, open for visits on summer weekends.
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Outside Altivole, but an easy day trip away.
