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(581 m). It's the hamlet with the greatest number
of inhabitants. It's placed on the west side of a large dell of
dolomitic rock, surrounded by birches and old chest-nut woods. The
village, in spite of the re-or-ganizations made to satisfy modern
exigences, shows all the characteristics of the ancient agricultural
village of the beginning of the century. Near the village you can
see what remains of the marble-quarry still in use at the end of
the Sixties, from where they quarried a valuable marble with red
venations. There are two churches important from the historical
point of view: S. Bernardo, erected in the XVIIth c. thanks to the
local inhabitants, and S. Rocco erected, during the pestilence which
afflicted the whole valley in 1648/49, where the area of the parish
church of Plesio meets that of Barna.
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