Borgo Valsugana, whose ancient name was Ausugum (the main street of the town, indeed, is named "Corso Ausugum"), used to be a Roman settlement along the Claudia Augusta Altinate road which connected
Altino to Tridentum (ancient name for Trento) and then to
Augsburg, nowadays in
Germany. Thanks to its location at the bottom of an open valley, the town always benefited from trade. Noblemen from
Castelnuovo and
Caldonazzo and the Welsperg family used to govern the town and its surroundings. In 1862 a huge fire destroyed a large part of the town, whose buildings were largely built using wood. From 1943 to 1945 the antifascist partisans fought in the framework of the "Gherlenda" battalion of the Garibaldine brigade "Antonio Gramsci" located in
Feltre. == People ==