Batteria Rocca Vecchia, Corpo di Guardia e Deposito polveri

The entire block of these buildings, dating back to the period of the rule of the Republic of Venice, was distributed along the road and never assumed a purely military character.

The Rocca Vecchia battery (referred to several times in historical documents as Vecchia Rocca) was demolished in an accidental fire in 1924 and created, through its morphology, a gateway to the Tyrol. Some documents read: ‘The Rocca Vecchia battery, as mentioned, was the first to be found coming from Anfo, about 700 metres from the village. It was crossed by a wide 30-metre-long vaulted corridor, equipped at the sides with mighty iron gates, which were never closed because the corridor served the traffic of the upper Valle Sabbia and the Giudicarie. Outside the gates were the two iron drawbridges that functioned, once the banks were removed, by raising the road surface to match the gates by means of powerful chains. Above the gates, the Rocca Vecchia was adorned with large corbels perfectly carved from granite.