‘CASA DELLE REGOLE’ (House of the Rules)

On the small Tancon square at about 150m from the main square of the village, going along Via Tancon on the right of the town hall, there is ‘Casa delle Regole’, historical building from 1640, completely frescoed, where the heads of the families met to take decisions concerning the management of the community. The external frescos represent the Virgin Mary surrounded by the patron saints of the Rulers: Lawrence (patron of the melters), Nicola, Girolamo and Giovanni Battista (patron of the Pieve di Canale).
On the right there is a sundial and a Crucifix, whereas all the windows are decorated with ornaments. Under the main truss, you can see the date 1640.
The house was probably built by the Doglionis from Belluno and it was bought towards the end of the 17th century by the Regola of Forno-Tancon. It became the meeting place of the Regola itself and later on the Regola of  Pitigogn-Garés joined it, too.
Inside the House there is the kasa (kitchen) with the traditional fireplace, the stua (the only room heaten by an old fornèl, in other words a big stove). Upstairs you can see a partly faded inscription revealing the presence of a certain Andrea Tancon.
A fresco – which once belonged to the facade against which the House was built – dominates the inside of the stua and depicts the Blessed Virgin with her child in her arms and an inscription tells us that the purchasing of the fresco was an ex-vow of a certain Tancon, in the 16th-17th centuries.
The building is the only example of Casa delle Regole having outlived the centuries in Agordino and one of the most typical constructions in all the Dolomites.