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Extract from the Feltre Travel Guides:
The historic centre of
FELTRE
, spread along a narrow ridge overlooking the modern town, owes its beguiling appearance to the calamity of 1509, when, in the course of the War of the League of Cambrai, the troops of the Imperial Army decided to punish the place for its allegiance to Venice by wiping much of it from the face of the planet. The Venetians took care of the reconstruction, and within a few decades the streets looked pretty much as they do nowadays. You're not going to find architecture students on every street corner, but you'd have to travel a long way to get a better idea of how an ordinary town looked in sixteenth-century...
read the whole Feltre Travel Guides...
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