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Pop.: 2,904
Area: 11,21 sq. km, 210 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Sornico Superiore
Town Hall: P.Marnico, 21/22 - 33011 Artegna
Phone.: 0432.977811 Fax: 0432.9778195
www.comune.artegna.ud.it
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Via Villa is the distinguishing
element of Artegna's urban plan,
running at the foot of the hill and
lined with a series of pretentious
buildings showing typical features of
18th-19th-century manor houses in Friuli. The
hill, inhabited since Roman times, is the
location of the small
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church S. Martino,
built in 1005 probably on the site of a
previous building; inside a lovely cycle of
coloured, naïf frescoes by Gian Paolo
Thanner datable to 1525 ca. is preserved,
portraying Evangelists, Doctors of the
Church, and Saints but also more complex
scenes such as the Adoration of the Magi and
St. Martin's Alms. On top of the soaring bell
tower cupola is the bronze statue of
St. Michael Archangel as a weather vane.
A bit further down the hill side is Castle
Savorgnan, with its articulated structure built
in different times, mentioned by Paolo
Diacono in his Historia Langobardorum.
The parish church of
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S. Maria Nascente,
built on a design by Pietro Schiavi between
1824 and 1829, shows good frescoes by
Sebastiano Santi on the nave ceiling
(Coronation and Birth of the Virgin, figures
of Saints, 1835) and by Leonardo Rigo in
the presbytery (Entrance in Jerusalem,
Recantation of Julian the Apostate,
1888-1892). In 1930 Valerio Mariani, a
painter from Velletri, completed the choir
decoration by adding Evangelists on the
ceiling and Jesus appearing to S.
Margherita on the end wall. Mention must
be made also of a portrait of S. Domenico,
showing daring chromaticism and luminous
traits, representing 19th-century painter
Luigi Pletti's most famous work. The
recently restored small church of S.
Stefano in Clama has revealed its antiquity
thanks to stone findings dating to the
8th and 9th centuries and to frescoes
(unfortunately heavily damaged) dating to
the 11th, 12th and 15th centuries.
The most recent frescoes may be attributed
to a Friulian painter strongly influenced
by northern art and therefore he might
be related to both Tommaso from Villach
and Janez Ljubljanski.
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The pleasant hilly area of Friuli, the
strip of land running from Gemona to
San Daniele almost to reach the suburbs
of Udine, has always been, through the
centuries, subject to earthquakes: suffice
it to mention the appalling
earthquakes of 1348
(also mentioned by
the Florentine historian
Filippo Villani), of
1511 (that halfdestroyed
Udine...go
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