Fregona: Sarmede
Sarmede is best known in Veneto for its International Illustration Exhibition for Children. This small municipality in the province of Treviso lies in the wooded foothills of the Venetian Prealps, below the Cansiglio plateau and above the plain around Vittorio Veneto. Since 1983, the exhibition has brought work by illustrators from many countries to the village; it grew from an initiative of the Czech-born artist Štěpán Zavřel, whose Casa della Fantasia remains central to Sarmede’s identity. Scattered hamlets, meadows and broadleaf woodland occupy the surrounding slopes, while the lowland Veneto opens beyond them. The rural setting provides a quiet counterpart to the cultural programme for which Sarmede is widely recognised.
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Fregona has served as a foothill settlement in Veneto since the Middle Ages. Set beneath the Cansiglio plateau in the eastern Italian Prealps, it extends across wooded slopes between the Treviso plain and higher forest country. The Caglieron stream has cut a narrow gorge nearby, where the Grotte del Caglieron combine water-shaped passages with chambers excavated for sandstone, preserving evidence of local quarrying. Scattered hamlets and a working rural setting give Fregona a distinctly quieter character than Veneto’s larger cities. Browse nearby webcams to place Fregona within the Cansiglio and Treviso foothills.
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