The metalworking establishment on the left bank of the Rusecco torrent was built towards the end of the nineteenth century by an unidentified valley-dweller, and later purchased by Giuseppe Galeazzi, who used it until he emigrated in 1929. The forge remained closed until after the Second World War, when it was entrusted to Dante Del Favero, who worked in it for a number of years, and it remains the property of the Galeazzi family to this day. Inside the well-preserved bare stone is the forge itself, a press and a set of bellows, all of which were powered by water.
Also in the municipality of Valle di Cadore, on the Rite torrent, we can still spot the mining site of Ronzei: the iron from these veins, and from those further east at Carsiè di Cibiana, was worked from the end of the seventeenth century until 1770 in the Cibiana forge, which specialised in the production of keys.

The building is located between the SS51 Alemagna road for Cortina d’Ampezzo, and the cycle path that runs parallel to it on the right.

ACCESSIBLE: the forge looks onto Via Dante
MUNICIPALITY: Valle di Cadore
PLACE: Rusecco
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES: X 1756729 – Y 5146082
PROVINCE: Belluno

FILE COMPILED BY: Antoniol

On a lofty headland not far from here is the Parish Church of San Martino, from the courtyard of which it is possible to admire the view over the Boite torrent, an affluent of the Piave.
A little further south is the covered wooden bridge over the Rualan torrent, which leads across to the ancient Greola road that once ran to Perarolo, the port of the Piave.

S. De Vecchi, Lavorare il ferro in provincia di Belluno, study material available at the Seravella museum in Cesiomaggiore
Various Authors, La via del ferro, Comunità Montana Cadore-Longaronese-Zoldo, 2001
C. Dal Mas, C. De Angelis, Cadore:  Musei e Territorio, degree thesis from IUAV, Venice, academic year 1996-97