Treviso

Treviso
/trdde vee"zaw/, n.
a city in NE Italy. 90,632.

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Italy
ancient (Latin)  Tarvisium 

      city, Veneto regione, northeastern Italy, situated north of Venice in a fertile plain at the confluence of the Sile and Botteniga rivers and intersected by canals. Originating as the Celtic Tarvisium, it was a Roman municipality and had an important mint at the time of Charlemagne. As capital of the march of Trevigiana, it reached its cultural peak in the 13th century under the da Camino family. Loyal to the republic of Venice from 1339 until it fell to the French in the Napoleonic era, Treviso was subject to Austria from 1815 until it was incorporated in united Italy in 1866. Treviso suffered from aerial bombing in World Wars I and II.

      Most of its important buildings have been restored, including the cathedral, founded in the 12th century, which houses treasures by such artists as Titian, Pordenone, and Paris Bordone, a native of Treviso. The Romanesque-Gothic Church of San Nicolò contains a group of saints by Tommaso da Modena, and the Church of San Francesco (where Dante's son Pietro and Petrarch's daughter Francesca are buried) has frescoes by the same artist. Characteristic of the city are the frescoes on house facades, notably those by Pordenone and Bordone. The Luigi Bailo Civic Museum contains prehistoric and Roman relics, as well as early Christian and Byzantine sculpture and a rich picture gallery.

      An important agricultural market centre, Treviso has rice and paper mills and food, textile, chemical, and ceramics manufactures. Pop. (2006 est.) mun., 82,399.

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