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Villa Clizia is located in Mas of Sedico, a crossroads between Feltre, Belluno and Agordo, not far from the ski lifts of Falcade and Alleghe, within the Dolomites. It’s an ideal place for those who want to take a pleasant walk in the mountains and then relax with a good dinner or relax with a delicious lunch.

The restaurant is located in a historic villa dating from the XVII and later reconstructed enlarged, around 1840. Today, the villa has been completely restored, the works were completed in 2005. The area is also rich in fashionable places, rich of architecture and beautiful landscapes.

• Vedana Chartreuse
  The Chartreuse of Vedana, at the foot of the homonymous mountain, is a large building the structure of which reminds one of that of a fortress or a castle.
  The place is peaceful and relaxing, an oasis of meadows and fields. The original 1155 hospice – Ospizio di San Marco – was turned into a chartreuse in 1456. A large cloister was added in 1521. The Republic of Venice closed it in 1768, but French Carthusian monks later reopened and held it until 1977. Nowadays, a sisterhood of cloistered nuns lives there.
  A small lake extends nearby, surrounded by moraininc heaps partially overgrown.
  On the altars of the Chartreuse there are two valuable canvases by Sebastiano Ricci - "Jesus's baptize" and "Madonna with Child between St Bruno and St Ugo" – while a remarkable tabernacle is attributed to Andrea Brustolon. The main altar features a 1610 canvas by Francesco Frigimelica. The Relics' Chapel is exquisitely decorated and arouses visitors' admiration. The 16th century small cloister with a well in the centre is well-proportioned and really beautiful. We cannot forget that Vedana is the birthplace of Girolamo Segato (1792-1837), traveller, cartographer and naturalist who became famous after discovering a process of petrifaction of human and animal body tissues.


• Mis Lake
  There are two lakes in the Park: Stua lake, in Val di Canzoi (Municipality of Cesiomaggiore) and Mis lake, in the homonymous valley (Municipality of Sospirolo). They are both artificial basins built for hydroelectric purposes and represent important elements of the landscape, especially Mis lake, which develops for about 4 km along the valley and represents a classic summer resort on Sundays. Moreover, the presence of these lakes helps to increase the variety of fauna: they are important for fish and amphibians reproducing in their waters. Some bird species like this kind of habitat: Mallards, for instance, spend the winter in the area of Mis lake.
  
  
• Dolomiti Park
  Parco Nazionale Dolomiti Bellunesi was created in order to protect a territory of extrordinary landscape and naturalistic value. The Vette di Feltre and Mount Serva were already famous for their flora in the 18th century. The presence of rare species and of a great variety of natural environments is mainly due to the geographical position of the territory. The Park is situated on the edge of the South-eastern Alps, in impracticable areas which, in part, were not covered by the glaciers forming during the glacial periods of the Quaternary, the last of which disappeared about 10,000-12,000 years ago.
  
  
• Val Cordevole and Glacial Formations
  The ice age has left a heritage of formations characterizing many environments of the Park (cirques, roches moutonnées, morainic deposits). During the last great glaciation (from about 75,000 to 10,000 years ago), the Park area was interested by the presence of both small local glaciers on the mountain summits and valley glaciers of regional relevance (Mis and Cordevole glaciers) supplied by the upper Agordino area, beyond the Park borders. The cirques (locally called "van" , "buse", "cadin") are the most significant glacial formations in the high-mountain landscapes of the Park. Shaped by small local glaciers, they usually take on the shape of large niches surrounded by steep slopes and characterized by a large and almost flat bottom or a basin-shaped bottom. In the Park, the bottom of the cirques is often reshaped by a process of karstic dissolution (glacial-karst basins). The most typical forms of glacial deposits that can be found at high altitudes are morainic banks, taking on the shape of small tapered or arched detrital hills, marking in this way the point reached by ice tongues before a stage of withdrawal. The gradual withdrawal of the great glacier of Piave from the valley bottom of Val Belluna has left an undulated morphology, with basins and depressions and the great system of ice moraines (ice transport landslides) of Masiere di Vedana.