Castelfranco Veneto

Castelfranco Veneto is a town and comune of Veneto, northern Italy, in the province of Treviso, 30 kilometres by rail from the town of Treviso. It is approximately 40 km inland from Venice.

The town originates from a castle built here by the commune of Treviso in the course of its strife against Padua . In 1246, it was captured by Ezzelino III da Romano, returning to Treviso after his death in 1259. In 1329, it was acquired by Cangrande I della Scala, lord of Verona. Ten years later, together with Treviso, it was handed over to the Republic of Venice, to which it belonged until 1797. Castelfranco Veneto then followed the history of Veneto. Indeed, the hand over to the "Serenissima" closes over a century of war events for the town. With its lands finally quiet and safe, some of the richest Venetian patrician families began undertaking several investments, laying down the foundations for the development of a relatively large area that will start one of its most prominent economic and cultural booming from the early decades of the sixteenth century. Almost freed from the rigid military dimension of the castle during the sixteenth century, Castelfranco Veneto transformed itself in a "quasi-city" , through a dynamic process of evolution of its economic fabric, as well as its redevelopment and thickening of its public and private building heritage.

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