S. Catarina, from the Pozza farm

Where the Rubbo family come from....

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May 24th 2010
Geo: 45.7446, 11.6555We had arranged to meet Nonno and Nonna in the little village of Santa Catarina di Luisana, in the hills behind Bassano, as this is the village that Nonna's mother and father came from. We arrived, after a very pretty drive from Marostica, to be met by a woman we had never seen before, saying "you must be Rita's son – I'll give you my car park!" N ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more