There are some historical indications that the first count of Collalto was baptised by Saint Prosdocimus, the Bishop of Padua, who arrived in Treviso 150 years after Christ! But more accurate records, though, conclusively confirm that they were of Longobard origin, a Germanic people originally from Northern Europe, and that they settled in Treviso, which is the nearby city, and, as the Counts of Treviso, exercised political and administrative control over that city for a long period, until they resettled in the Susegana hills. By the 12th ce .....[more]