Stage 05 (Seren del Grappa - Cesiomaggiore)

The Cesio territory has belonged to the Feltre area since antiquity, a land that was inhabited by the Raetians in pre-Roman times.

The toponym is believed to derive from the Latin anthroponym Caesius, referring to a gens Caesia, to which the Latin poet Cesio Basso (1st century A.D.) belonged. The presence of the gens Caesia in the area of Cesiomaggiore is attested by the finding of an inscription mentioning a L. Caesius L. Among the finds that testify to the Roman presence there is a monumental cippus from 47 A.D., which commemorates the construction of the Via Claudia Augusta altinate (between Altinum, on the Adriatic Sea, and Augusta Vindelicum, today Augsburg, in the Danube region), and which has become the heraldic symbol of the municipality. It is incorporated in an altar at the Church of St. Mary Major.