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To live in Pauso Hill

A hill of great archeological interest for findings of artifacts from the Roman age, among which there stands out a votive discus that can be dated back between the 1st century BC and the 1st century AD. This hill is thought to have very likely been a place of worship. The location of the Pauso hill between the flat land and the hilly range is closely connected to the transit and transhumance trail to and from the pasture lands of the mountains forming the Asiago Plateau. The site has therefore been inhabited by humans since time unspoken. Around the year 1000, the top of the hill was already the seat of an elementary defense system, a fortress that was enlarged in the following two centuries and assumed the configuration of a robust and powerful fortified structure, a real castrum (settlement) with a torre gironata (fortified tower), a dongione (dungeon) and a torre (tower). In other words, the fortified structure hosted on the Pauso hill was the very first castle of Marostica (before the birth of the Scaligeri walled town) that played a significant strategic and political role during the war between the city of Vicenza and the Ezzelini family (from the end of the XII century to the death of Ezzelino III da Romano in 1259). A document dated 1262 confirms that the fortified settlement on the Pauso hill consisted of an entirely walled structure with a palace and a fortified tower. The document also specifies that three other towers dominated the hills of Marostica: one on the Pauso hill, the second one on the Pausolino hill and the third one on Mount Agù. The now gone fortified structure on the Pauso hill protected the Church of Santa Maria Assunta at its foot and the inhabitants of the underlying borough, the "earliest"’ Marostica. The castle on the Pauso hill resisted the attacks of the Paduans during the first war the Scaligeri waged against Padua in 1312-1314, which brought about great devastation upon the underlying borough, in the aftermath of the establishment of the Scaligeri rule in Marostica as well (1311). A Cross stands out now on the top of the hill, where there used to be the ancient fortified settlement and its presence is documented as far back
as the end of 1600s and the beginning of the 1700s.

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