Across the Piave in Castellavazzo, it is possible to visit the only museum in Italy devoted to the transport of timber on rafts: the Ethnographical Museum of the Timber Raftsmen of the Piave (60 ES) in Codissago, which houses the International Centre for the Study of Timber Rafts, and the “Fameja dei zater e menadas”, the association that runs it. In front of the museum a traditional Venetian-style sawmill, recovered in the Centro Cadore area, has been placed.  Codissago played an important role in the timber industry, because close to the village there were buildings that could be used to store and process timber, as well as the river port area. Almost all of these facilities are now gone, and all that is left are the remains of the barrages (roste) at the bridge that links Codissago with Castellavazzo. Towards the south, at the mouth of the Vajont torrent, a number of modern sawmills are still in operation.

The museum is in Codissago, a village near Castellavazzo, about 6 km from the A23 motorway, on the left bank of the Piave, opposite Longarone.

ACCESSIBLE: yesx
MUNICIPALITY: Castellavazzo
PLACE: Codissago
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES: X 1755110 – Y 5130085
PROVINCE: Belluno

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The modern building that houses the Castellavazzo Technology Park (132 CA), built on a flat area near the right-hand channel of the Piave, is composed of three shells in stiff metal that cover the lightweight wooden and glass structures that face towards the water. The Park, designed to house laboratories, offices and a multi-function hall, is equipped with top-quality, hi-tech telecommunications infrastructures, and its main power source is a plant with an integrated gas-geothermal heat pump. The Science Park project is structured in such a way as to include specialised companies and research entities operating in the field of environmental technologies. From a functional point of view, the structures of the Park are organised around three core buildings: a central facility for collective services (reception, management offices, congress hall, training classrooms), flanked by two wings on two levels, adding up to a total of eight 65 m2 cells,  designed to accommodate new businesses or local offices of research entities.

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