Short history
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It is believed with good reason that the brickworks were built around 1880 by Bortolo Zanesco, who came from Possagno. The site had most probably already been occupied by another works built in the first decades of the 1800s.
The new works, specialized in the production of bricks, double bricks and blocks, was a significant example of local industry from the very beginning, giving employment to over fifty workers.
The Fornace di Casella was an innovative works using a Hoffmann type kiln that guaranteed a continuous firing cycle and consequently high production standards.
In the years following the construction of the brickworks the product underwent further rationalization in the baking techniques and the mechanization of work with the gradual insertion of motors, first operated by water then by steam and lastly by electricity.
In 1922 the brickworks was bought by the Favretto family who ran it until 1965. When the business closed down the building became a building materials depot that slowly and inexorably deteriorated.
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