The former “A. Pitter” Hydroelectric Power Plant Museum, Malnisio (Montereale Valcellina)
Distance from Maniago: 8 km (5 mi) in 10 minutes
A masterpiece of ingenuity and technical skills, a “cathedral of scientific knowledge”. The “Antonio Pìtter” hydroelectric power plant was designed to create energy, and nowadays it corroborates the universal relationship between man and water. Built in the early 1900s, the plant provided the electricity for the first public lighting of St. Mark’s in Venice. It was powered by the waters of the Cellina River channelled here thanks to the work of more than two thousand miners, stonemasons, bricklayers, carpenters, wheelbarrow labourers, and women porters. Here, you can still admire the four massive Francis turbines.
