[4] The first attestation of Alano whose etymology should be traced back, according to some, to the barbaric horde of the Alans, who descended there from the North, and, according to others, more modestly, to the working of wool, once widespread in the area, is found in a document of the eighth century.

Subsequently, starting from the X-XI century, the information on the community thickens: the confusion present in the maps of the time is the clear consequence of the continuous succession of different governments in the control of Alano and the neighboring territories, constantly disputed between the various lords of Feltre and Treviso.

However, the Alanese not only suffered the sad effects of these struggles: in fact, they had to endure the fighting that dragged on until the beginning of the 1500s, at the time of the war of Cambrai - for the possession of the fourteenth-century fortress of Castelnuovo, which dominated the streets road and river.

The dramatic events that took place in the Alano basin during the First World War - located in a neutral zone and therefore hit by Austrian and Italian artillery at the same time they literally devastated its territory.

The pastoral visit of 1535 attests to the transfer of the Blessed Sacrament and the baptismal font to the church of Sant'Antonio Abate, in a more central position, which since then has become the place of worship of reference for the town.

In the first chapel on the left stands a statue of St. Anthony of Padua with baby Jesus, sculpted by Gabriele Brunelli in the second half of the seventeenth century.