History of a village in the land of great battles

The territory of Pozzolengo has been inhabited since Prehistory, although the first settlement was built around a Roman mansio.
Around the year one thousand, the Castle was built, a fortified village on the top of Monte Fluno, inside which the frescoed apse of the Church of San Lorenzo from 1300 is still visible. The parish church, built in 1510, houses an organ from 1600 and canvases of great artistic value attributed to Brusasorci and Celesti.
The historic residences of particular value are concentrated in the historic center, among which Palazzo Gelmetti stands out, the municipal seat since the early 1900s. In the nineteenth century Pozzolengo was the scene of the Risorgimento battles which led to the independence and unification of Italy and, in particular, of the Battle of San Martino and Solferino on 24 June 1859: fought between the Austrian and the Franco-Sardinian armies which the Second Italian War of Independence ended. It was the largest battle, after that of Leipzig in 1813, with the participation of over 230,000 soldiers.