The Carenzoni Monego Institute (IPAB) was originally an orphanage to which was later annexed the Bertagno professional school for women.
The Carenzoni orphanage owes its origin to Mons. Bernardo Maria Carenzoni, bishop of Feltre, who left in his will in 1810 a bequest to establish a home for girls, orphans of father and mother, and poor “who would probably end up begging in the street, exposing themselves to the peril of losing their innocence...” . The will did set the terms and rules of the home, and entrusted its running to the Charitable Congregation of the city.
The Carenzoni orphanage owes its origin to Mons. Bernardo Maria Carenzoni, bishop of Feltre, who left in his will in 1810 a bequest to establish a home for girls, orphans of father and mother, and poor “who would probably end up begging in the street, exposing themselves to the peril of losing their innocence...” . The will did set the terms and rules of the home, and entrusted its running to the Charitable Congregation of the city.
The Congregation used the yield to purchase the building of the suppressed convent of the Ursulines and welcomed eight orphans. It opened officially in 1818 and was named after Carenzoni. It became a charitable foundation on 1st January 1818. After the First World War the school was restored with donations from private citizens and with assistance from the State, and prepared to accommodate sixty orphan girls.
In 1920 the engineer Giovanni Battista Monego gave a legacy to the Institute which was used to revive it economically and to meet its operating costs, and founded the men's section, which began operation in 1929.
In 1914 was established, within the Institute, the Professional School for Women "Bertagna", for teaching the art of cutting-sewing-embroidery, and in 1952 it was transferred to a new building, adjacent to the Institute, built with the donation of the senator Achille Gaggia. The school, named after Mrs "Maria Paoletti Gaggia", ceased its activities in 1970.The Insitute ceased it function of orphanage in 1970 and currently houses boarding rooms for male and female high school and university students, and it is used as a holiday home during the summer.
