(6460) Bassano = 1992 UK6
Named for Bassano Bresciano, an ancient village in the Italian
province of Brescia. Situated on the Padana plain, in the early Middle
Ages it was under Longobard and Frank dominion. Later it was ruled by
Sforza and the Venice republic. In the sixteenth century the
Brescian agronomists Camillo Tarello and Agostino Gallo reclaimed this
marshland. The most important monuments are Luzzago's sixteenth-century
palace and Brunelli's seventeenth-century villa. In the church there is a Via
Crucis attributed to Tiepolo's school.