Belluno - useful informations about Belluno and its district

Belluno rises on a high natural terrace to the convergence of the torrent Ardo in the Piave, is the more spacious province and it except for populated of the Venetian because almost entirely mountainous. In 1999 it was defined "Mountain Town of the year". What gives back it sole are the quiet squares, the old medieval and renaissance roads, the fountains and the splendid palaces in Venetian style. The city center offers environments quite preserved, with important monuments of the centuries XV and XVI and spacious panoramic closes. Between of their we find the sixteenth-century church of San Rocco, modernized around the half of the XIX century, the Church of Santo Stefano, sole gothic church of the Bellunese. Part of the territory bellunese return in the favorite area of the National Park of the Dolomites and presents an exceptional interest whether from the environmental point of view or naturalistic. A special caution deserves the Nevegal, a suitable place to spend every type of vacation, to tight contact with the nature. They do it from track of kilometers owner from come down and from fund, numerous sporty structures suitable to satisfy the different requirements of age and of preparation. The cooking bellunese is a simple kitchen of mountain, but not poor. The typical dishes are the soups with bean, gnocchi of zucca with ricotta, the mush of yellow flour accompanied with potatoes and sausages and for how much pertains the sweets go remembered the Kodinzon, delicate sfoglie of apples left dry to the sun.