Castello Roganzuolo
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Castello Roganzuolo is a frazione
of San Fior
comune
(municipality) in the Province of Treviso
in the Italian region Veneto
, located on Conegliano
hills (famous for productions of wine
, especially prosecco
) about 50 km north of Venice and about 30 km northeast of Treviso.
, painting a tryptych for SS. Peter and Paul Church.
Also Pomponio Amalteo
, 15th century painter, and Sante Cancian, 20th century painter, worked in Castello Roganzuolo.
Frazione
A frazione , in Italy, is the name given in administrative law to a type of territorial subdivision of a comune; for other administrative divisions, see municipio, circoscrizione, quartiere...
of San Fior
San Fior
San Fior is a comune in the Province of Treviso in the Italian region Veneto, located about 50 km north of Venice and about 30 km northeast of Treviso...
comune
Comune
In Italy, the comune is the basic administrative division, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality.-Importance and function:...
(municipality) in the Province of Treviso
Treviso
Treviso is a city and comune in Veneto, northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Treviso and the municipality has 82,854 inhabitants : some 3,000 live within the Venetian walls or in the historical and monumental center, some 80,000 live in the urban center proper, while the city...
in the Italian region Veneto
Veneto
Veneto is one of the 20 regions of Italy. Its population is about 5 million, ranking 5th in Italy.Veneto had been for more than a millennium an independent state, the Republic of Venice, until it was eventually annexed by Italy in 1866 after brief Austrian and French rule...
, located on Conegliano
Conegliano
Conegliano is a town and comune of the Veneto region, Italy, in the province of Treviso, about north by rail from the town of Treviso. The population of the city is of around 36,000 people. The remains of a castle that was built in the 10th century remain on a nearby hill...
hills (famous for productions of wine
Wine
Wine is an alcoholic beverage, made of fermented fruit juice, usually from grapes. The natural chemical balance of grapes lets them ferment without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes, or other nutrients. Grape wine is produced by fermenting crushed grapes using various types of yeast. Yeast...
, especially prosecco
Prosecco
Prosecco is an Italian white wine — generally a Dry or Extra Dry sparkling wine — normally made from Glera grapes. DOC prosecco is produced in the regions of Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia in Italy, and traditionally mainly in the areas near Conegliano and Valdobbiadene, in the hills...
) about 50 km north of Venice and about 30 km northeast of Treviso.
SS. Peter and Paul Church
In this place Titian worked and lived, during the RenaissanceRenaissance
The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...
, painting a tryptych for SS. Peter and Paul Church.
Also Pomponio Amalteo
Pomponio Amalteo
Pomponio Amalteo was an Italian painter of the Venetian school.He was born at Motta di Livenza in Veneto. He was a pupil and son-in-law of Il Pordenone, whose style he closely imitated; he inherited Pordenone's studio at Friuli, where he led a long career...
, 15th century painter, and Sante Cancian, 20th century painter, worked in Castello Roganzuolo.