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'''Asolo''' ({{IPA
[[File:The Fortress of Asolo, TV, Italy.jpg|thumb|The Fortress of Asolo.]]
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The theatre was later purchased by [[Florida]], for the [[John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art]]. The theatre was disassembled, shipped to [[Sarasota, Florida]], and reassembled in one of the museum's galleries in 1952.
It was then decided that the theatre should be reassembled into a usable theatre, on the museum's grounds in the late 1950s. The
The town was also home to the English poet [[Robert Browning]], the actress [[Eleonora Duse]], the explorer [[Freya Stark]], the violinist [[Wilma Neruda]] and the composer [[Gian Francesco Malipiero]].<ref>[http://icarus.umkc.edu/sandbox/perseus/pecs/page.18.a.php Richard Stillwell, ed. ''Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites'', 1976:] "Acelum (Asolo), Italy"</ref><ref>Leslie E. Ellis. "The Early History of the Asolo Theatre" [[Florida State University]], Dissertation.</ref>
===Jewish history===
The earliest evidence of Jews in Asolo dates back to the middle of the sixteenth century. At that time, 37 Jews were living in Asolo. The community had owned a cemetery, from which two ancient tombstones are presented in the local gallery.<ref>[https://belecaselusa.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/asolo-hebrew-inscription.jpg
Other documentations of the Jewish community of Asolo mentions the prohibition of Jews bearing weapons and obligation to wear the [[yellow badge]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www7.tau.ac.il/omeka/italjuda/items/show/1086 |title=Asolo · ITALIA JUDAICA |access-date=2014-10-13 |archive-date=2020-10-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029043438/http://www7.tau.ac.il/omeka/italjuda/items/show/1086 |url-status=dead }}</ref> There is evidence to Jewish presence after the 1546 attack, dating from the middle of the 17th century.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www7.tau.ac.il/omeka/italjuda/items/show/1086 |title=Asolo · ITALIA JUDAICA |access-date=2014-10-13 |archive-date=2020-10-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029043438/http://www7.tau.ac.il/omeka/italjuda/items/show/1086 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The [[Jewish quarter (diaspora)|Jewish quarter]] was situated at the turn of Colmarion street, bounded on the north by the old road Colmarion, on the south by Piazza del Pavion and by the last stretch of via s. Caterina and crossed by the short Belvedere alley - this area was called "the [[Ghetto]]", housing about six houses.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www7.tau.ac.il/omeka/italjuda/items/show/1086 |title=Asolo · ITALIA JUDAICA |access-date=2014-10-13 |archive-date=2020-10-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029043438/http://www7.tau.ac.il/omeka/italjuda/items/show/1086 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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[[File:Castello della Regina Cornaro Asolo.jpg | thumb|220x124px | right | Inner court view of the Castle]]
*''Palazzo della Ragione'', housing the city's museum.
*The
For a number of years, the Convento di Santo Pietro (situated just below la Rocca) housed an American university: [[CIMBA|Consortium International for Management and Business Analysis (CIMBA)]].<ref>
* Chiesa dell'Assunta (Assumption of Our Lady, who is portrayed in the mosaic of the main façade), the cathedral of the former residential see of Acelum or Asolo.
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* Chiesa di Santa Caterina, with frescos from the 14th century
* Chiesa di Sant'Anna, next to the cemetery where [[Freya Stark]] and [[Eleonora Duse]] are buried.
== Demographic evolution ==
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=== Foreign ethnicities and minorities ===
As of December 31, 2022, foreigners residents in the municipality were {{formatnum:1169}}, i.e. {{formatnum:13.1}}% of the population. The largest groups are shown below:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://demo.istat.it/str2022/index.html|editor=ISTAT|title=Demographic balance and foreign resident population as at 31 December 2022 by gender and citizenship|accessdate=31 July 2023}}</ref><ref>[https://www.tuttitalia.it/veneto/35-asolo/statistiche/cittadini-stranieri-2023/ Foreign citizens] tuttiitalia.it</ref>
# [[Romania]] {{formatnum:584}}
# [[Morocco]] {{formatnum:97}}
# [[Kosovo]] {{formatnum:54}}
# [[Republic of Macedonia|North Macedonia]] {{formatnum:53}}
# [[Albania]] {{formatnum:49}}
# [[China]] {{formatnum:49}}
# [[Ukraine]] {{formatnum:30}}
==Economy==
Asolo is best known for its lace production. and also for one of the largest companies in the Italian and international technical mountaineering and hiking footwear sector: Scarpa. Casella d'Asolo is home to the headquarters of Fashion Box S.p.a., founded in 1981 by Claudio Buziol. Replay is an Italian denim and smart casualwear brand belonging to the industrial group with exports that account for around 92% of the total turnover.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.venetoeconomia.it/2022/05/da-doha-allaustralia-le-nuove-aperture-di-replay/|title=Da Doha all'Australia, le nuove aperture di Replay|language=it|accessdate=25 May 2022}}</ref>
==Infrastructure and transport==
Located along the state road 248 Schiavonesca-Marosticana, between 1914 and 1931 Asolo represented the western terminus of the Montebelluna-Asolo tramway, the first element of a never built rail route between Bassano del Grappa and Susegana, which at the time represented an important development tool for the economy of the area. Since 2014 it has been connected to Montebelluna and Treviso by several bus lines of MOM - Mobilità di Marca.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://mobilitadimarca.it/p/linee-e-orari/servizio-extraurbano/invernale-2024-in-vigore-dal-08-01-2024|title=Servizio extraurbano - MOM |language=it}}</ref>
==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Asolo Il Castello.JPG|Aerial view of the castle
File:Asolo - Duomo - Campanile.jpg|The imposing bell tower of the Duomo
File:Campanile di Asolo.jpg|View of the historic center of Asolo from the castle
File:VillaScottiPasini.jpg|Villa Scotti Pasini, in the center of the city, whose façade overlooks Piazza Garibaldi
File:Fontana Asolo.jpg|Fountain in Piazza Garibaldi, with the lion of St. Mark
File:Lorenzo Lotto 039.jpg|[[Lorenzo Lotto]], the ''[[Asolo Altarpiece]]'' (1506)
File:Madonna Asolo.jpg|Fresco in the loggia of the civic museum
File:Asolo - chiesa di Santa Caterina - indulgenza.jpg|Terracotta plaque walled into the façade of the church of Santa Caterina
</gallery>
==References==
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