Top of the World
Once called Roncum frontulo, a toponym that indicates its location in a wooded area, this village is mentioned for the first time in a document of 1075, but the current name appears only in documents of 1540.
– Chiesa Parroccchiale di Santa Margherita We have news of this building since the 11th century; initially it was a chapel that depended on the parish church of San Pietro di Feletto, but in the second half of the fifteenth century it was rebuilt to later become a parish church. Enlarged again in the first half of the twentieth century on a design by the architect. Possamai Giovanni di Solighetto, currently sees placed on an external fence three eighteenth-century sculptures who originally enriched the facade. Inside, the second altar on the right is noteworthy, the work of the Ghirlanduzzi da Ceneda, a famous family of carvers operating until 1689, which houses a painting from the Titian area; Also interesting is the main altarpiece, made at the end of the sixteenth century by an unknown painter of Venetian Flemish training. The bell tower dates back to 1613.
– Villa Spada Battaglia Peretti This villa, built in the second half of the seventeenth century by the Marzer family, is surrounded by greenery near the parish church, on the site where a castrum was built in ancient times, mentioned in a document dated 1138. Completed in the late nineteenth century, when it passed to the Spada family, it presents decorations made by Angelo Lorenzon [1927-1978], a painter from Senaglia della Battaglia, who enjoyed the esteem of the famous poet Andrea Zanzotto. Occupied by enemy troops during the last year of the First World War, it is the setting in which the plot of the novel by Molesini is set, Not all bastards are from Vienna, winner – among others – of the Campiello Prize 2011, which draws inspiration from the diary written by Maria Spada during the days of the invasion.
– Molinetto della Croda Two kilometers north of the city center is the Molinetto della Croda, an ancient mill that exploits the 12-meter water drop of the Lierza stream, the main tributary of the Soligo. A very suggestive place, it was immortalized in a scene from the film Mogliamante, played in 1977 by Marcello Mastroianni and Laura Antonelli. This building, whose construction probably dates back to the sixteenth century, preserves the characteristic millstone inside and temporary exhibitions are often set up in the various rooms used as a home by the miller’s family.
