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Asolo
Asolo
	— Comune —
Comune di Asolo
	; Coat of arms
	; Coat of arms
	; Asolo Location of Asolo in Italy
	Coordinates: 45°48′N 11°55′E / 45.8°N 11.917°ECoordinates: 45°48′N 11°55′E / 45.8°N 11.917°E
Country	Italy
Region	Veneto
Province	Treviso (TV)
Frazioni	Casella, Pagnano, Villa d'Asolo
	Government
- Mayor	Daniele Ferrazza
	Area
- Total	25.24 km2 (9.7 sq mi)
Elevation	210 m (689 ft)
	Population (October 31, 2007)
- Total	9,056
- Density	358.8/km2 (929.3/sq mi)
- Demonym	Asolani
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
- Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	31010
Dialing code	0423
Patron saint	San Prosdocimo from Padoa
Saint day	November 7
Website	Official website

Asolo is a town and comune in the Veneto Region of Northern Italy. It is known as "The Pearl of province of Treviso", and also as "The City of a Hundred Horizons" for its mountain settings.

[edit] History

The town was originally a settlement of the Veneti, and was mentioned as Acelum in the works of Pliny.

In the early Middle Ages it was under the jurisdiction of the Bishops of Treviso and a possession of the Ezzelino family.

Later Asolo was the capital, and seat of the court, of the fiefdom of Asolo, which was granted by the Republic of Venice (to which it belonged) to Caterina Cornaro, the former Queen of Cyprus; in 1489 it was granted to her for life, but in 1509 when the League of Cambrai conquered and ransacked Asolo, Caterina fled to exile and died in Venice a year later. Under her reign, the painter Gentile Bellini and the humanist Cardinal Pietro Bembo were part of the court.

In 1798 the Italian impressario Antonio Locatelli built the Asolo Theatre in the former audience hall of the castle of Caterina Cornaro. The theatre was later purchased by the State of Florida for the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. The theatre was crated up and shipped to Sarasota, Florida and set up in one of the museum's galleries in 1952. It was then decided that the theatre should be reassembled into a usable theatre on the museum's grounds in the late 1950s. The newly constructed theatre opened in 1958 and is now the home of both the Asolo Repertory Theatre and the Florida State University/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training.

The town was also home to the English poet Robert Browning, the actress Eleonora Duse, the explorer Freya Stark, the violinist Wilma Neruda and the composer Gian Francesco Malipiero.^[1]^[2]

[edit] Main sights

Remains of an amphitheatre (in the Villa Freya) and of an aqueduct.
Rocca (castle, late 12th-early 13th centuries).
The Castle of Caterina Cornaro, now home to the Eleonora Duse theatre.
Palazzo della Ragione, housing the city's museum.
The Cathedral, built in 1747. In the interior is the Assunta altarpiece by Lorenzo Lotto.

Atop the town sits a converted convent that now houses a university: Consortium International for Management and Business Analysis (CIMBA)^[3]^[4]. Students from all over the world live/work/study in Asolo while earning their MBA. CIMBA has a sister campus for undergraduates in Paderno del Grappa.

[edit] Frazioni

[edit] References

^ Richard Stillwell, ed. Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, 1976: "Acelum (Asolo), Italy"
^ Leslie E. Ellis, Ph.D. The Early History of the Asolo Theatre (Florida State University, Dissertation available through www.lulu.com)
^ Asolo Festival
^ CIMBA

[edit] External links

Asolo Boots & Shoes
Asolo Festival
CIMBA
"Asolo". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911.

[0] Richard Stillwell, ed. Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, 1976: "Acelum (Asolo), Italy"

[1] Leslie E. Ellis, Ph.D. The Early History of the Asolo Theatre (Florida State University, Dissertation available through www.lulu.com)

[2] Asolo Festival

[3] CIMBA

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Contents

[edit] History

[edit] Main sights

[edit] Frazioni

[edit] References

[edit] External links