[21] 72 FORGE ON THE RU SECCO – ES The metalworking

[21] 72 FORGE ON THE RU SECCO – ES
The metalworking establishment on the left bank of the Rusecco torrent was built towards the end
of the nineteenth century by an unidentified valley-dweller, and later purchased by Giuseppe
Galeazzi, who used it until he emigrated in 1929. The forge remained closed until after the Second
World War, when it was entrusted to Dante Del Favero, who worked in it for a number of years, and
it remains the property of the Galeazzi family to this day. Inside the well-preserved bare stone is
the forge itself, a press and a set of bellows, all of which were powered by water.
Also in the municipality of Valle di Cadore, on the Rite torrent, we can still spot the mining site of
Ronzei: the iron from these veins, and from those further east at Carsiè di Cibiana, was worked
from the end of the seventeenth century until 1770 in the Cibiana forge, which specialised in the
production of keys.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
S. De Vecchi, Lavorare il ferro in provincia di Belluno, study material available at the Seravella
museum in Cesiomaggiore
Various Authors, La via del ferro, Comunità Montana Cadore-Longaronese-Zoldo, 2001
C. Dal Mas, C. De Angelis, Cadore: Musei e Territorio, degree thesis from IUAV, Venice, academic
year 1996-97
FILE COMPILED BY: Antoniol
ACCESSIBLE: the forge looks onto Via Dante
MUNICIPALITY: Valle di Cadore
PLACE: Rusecco
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES: X 1756729 – Y 5146082
PROVINCE: BL
INTERESTING FACTS
On a lofty headland not far from here is the Parish Church of San Martino, from the courtyard of
which it is possible to admire the view over the Boite torrent, an affluent of the Piave.
A little further south is the covered wooden bridge over the Rualan torrent, which leads across to
the ancient Greola road that once ran to Perarolo, the port of the Piave.
HOW TO GET THERE
The building is located between the SS51 Alemagna road for Cortina d’Ampezzo, and the cycle
path that runs parallel to it on the right.