This essay aims to explore cultural representations and iconographical tradition of Montello and its karst phenomena. Prose and poetic works, historical maps and photographs, postcards, affiches and illustrated guides are here examined as landscape texts, within their cultural contexts, in order to understand how the image of Montello has been perceived, interpreted, and even celebrated in past and recent times. "Gran Selva" in the age of the Republic of Venice, patriotic icon during the First World War, source of literary inspiration and memory, attractive naturalistic site that needs protection, Montello has preserved till now a strongly vivid both visual and cultural image.