The powerful fleet had to be improved continually, the tonnages were multiplied, so the trees needed to be higher and stronger, in order to resist the strong winds blowing in the growing sails.

At that time neither the carbon fibre, nor the kevlar, the aluminium or the ergal where known…instead, the forests of the Cansiglio and of the Fiemme Valley with its beautiful, straight and elastic trees that grew up to 40 or 50 meters were known.

These trees are made of a water and salt resistant fibre that is able to resist the sea storms, which can be employed in different ways and above all, is irreplaceable to build fundaments at deeper levels.

A large part of Venice too “stands” on firs of the Fiemme Valley.

Over centuries today’s Hotel la Stua beared the name restaurant/tavern VENEZIA.

Why? The wood buyers sent here by the Doges spent their nights and signed the contracts here, in the restaurant VENEZIA.

Not far apart from it there still is the palace of the MAGNIFICA COMUNITA’ GENERALE DI FIEMME the magnificent general community of the Fiemme Valley, which was the place of administration of the community for the trees in the valley. This was the place where contracts were negotiated, seals were impressed and the cutting of trees was planned and organised. Briefly, the restaurant VENEZIA could have been today’s stock exchange, the place where buyers and sellers meet. During the last ten years the hotel was in constant change in order to bring back the flair of the time passed by.

It’s splendour is now given by furniture of rare beauty, five hundred years old parlours, centurial rocks, antique pictures and precious sculptures, open cheminees (stone fireplaces) and ceramic stoves, a house whose history has been written through itself.