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Pop.: 6,670
Area: 25,55 sq. km, 226 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Andreuzza, Avilla, Camadusso, Camartino,
Campo Garzolino, Caspigello, Codesio, Collosomano,
Madonna, Monte, Ontegnano, Saletti, San Floreano, Solaris,
Sopramonte, Sottocolle, Sottocostoia, Strambons, Tomba,
Tonzolano, Urbignacco, Ursinis Grande, Ursinis Piccolo
Town Hall: Piazza S.Stefano , 3 - 33030 Buja
Phone.: 0432.960151 Fax: 0432.960632
www.comune.buja.ud.it
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The origins of Buja are really old,
but its castle, the first settlement,
was probably built around the mid
-6th century AD. Already mentioned in
a document by Charles the Great
in 792, Buja is mentioned again - with Fagagna,
Gruagno, Braitan and Udine - also in the famous
Ottone II's diploma of 983. Restored after the
1976 earthquake, the pieve of S. Lorenzo in
Monte, built in a place that had always been
inhabited, is notable for the late 14th-century
frescoes by an unknown Friulian painter
portraying scenes from the life of the Virgin
and visible on the barrel vault of a small chapel.
The church also contains a large altarpiece with
St. Lorenzo's martyrdom and two paintings
with episodes from the Saint's life: this is what
remains of a large wooden altar carved and
painted by Giovanni Battista Grassi (1558).
Moreover, wooden statues (15th cent.) are
doubtfully attributed to Domenico da Tolmezzo,
who, instead, is certainly the author of a
beautiful statue of Virgin with Child (1481) in the
church of Madonna di Buja. The neo-Gothic
duomo of S. Stefano, partly destroyed in the
earthquake, was
rebuilt. In the
church of
S. Pietro at
Avilla, there is
a peculiar
Via Crucis
with panels
by well-known
contemporary
artists.
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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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