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Civic Museum of Treviso

The Civic Museum Luigi Bailo called the abbot, founder and first director, was inaugurated in 1882 as the Museum of Treviso.It is divided into three distinct sections: the archaeological, of a territorial nature, as it collects artifacts found in the city itself or the surrounding area, dating from the second millennium BC to High Middle Ages, the art museum, which covers art from the Renaissance to nineteenth century (Giovanni Bellini, Paris Bordone, Lorenzo Lotto, Titian, Rosalba, Giambattista and Giandomenico Tiepolo, Guardi, Longhi Pietro), the modern art gallery, exhibiting works from the late nineteenth century onwards (Arturo Martini, Gino Rossi, Guglielmo Ciardi, Sante Cancian).

Church of St. Francis

A group of Franciscan friars, sent by Saint Francis himself, arrived in Treviso in 1216 and took place in a chapel dedicated to Our Lady, in the area over the Great Cagnan. The community soon became numerous and in 1231 began to build the church and convent, which were completed in 1270 . Abolished in 1806 , were used for other purposes, until in 1928 were not restored and reopened for worship. The architecture is transitional between the Roman and the first Gothic . The interior has a nave and five side chapels. Inside you can see the graves of the son of Dante Alighieri and Francesco Petrarch's daughter.

Piazza Rinaldi

was built by the wealthy family Rinaldi.Piazza Rinaldi, unlike the Piazza Duomo, follows a fairly symmetrical.The plaza housed three buildings of different eras, but all in possession of the Rinaldi family.The first was built in the thirteenth century and was the residence of Rinaldi's just arrived in Treviso and fled from Frederick Barbarossa.The second building, dating back to fifteenth century, is decorated with curious pointed arches bending in a lodge on the first floor.The third and final building is eighteenth-century.In the square there was a "staging post".Here people came, with the help of horses, sorting and transporting the mail.Also served as a dormitory and tavern.At the beginning of the twentieth century became a marketplace and meeting.

Bridge Pria

is a bridge located in an area where the rivers converge Cagnan (Channel) Great, home to the island of Fish, Channel Buranelli and another channel.Here are the locks, designed and built by Fra Giocondo.The locks were used to flood the area around Treviso to block the advance of any enemy armies.

Giardino Fenologico

is a research botanical garden operated by the Accademia Trevigiana per il Territorio, and located adjacent to the Orto Botanico Conservativo Carlo Spegazzini at viale de Coubertin 15, Treviso, Veneto, Italy. It is open daily.The garden was established circa 1999 for experimental studies in phenology, and named in honor of Venetian botanist Alessandro Marcello. Its mission is to study the influence of various environmental factors on plant growth. To reduce the number of experimental variables, the garden contains 2-4 identical clones of the species Cornus mas, Cornus sanguinea, Ligustrum vulgare, Robinia pseudoacacia, Salix acutifolia, Salix smithiana, Salix viminalis, and Sambucus nigra.

Palazzo dei Trecento

is a building in Treviso, Veneto, northern Italy, located in the Piazza dei Signori. It is home to Treviso municipal council.The palace was erected in the 13th and 14th centuries, as the seat of the Maggior Consiglio ("Highest Council"), the main administrative council in the city. Built in brickworks, it has two floors, the lower one entered through a loggia. The upper floor has three triple mullioned windows.Internally, there are remains of frescoes painted from the 14th to the 16th centuries by Venetian artists, depicting coat of arms and themes of civil power and justice. On the southern walls are a Madonna with Child and "St. Liberalis with Peter and the Cardinal Virtues.In 1944 the palace was bombed by Allied planes and nearly destroyed.

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