| Municipality of Pagnacco
|
|
Pop.: 4,597
Area: 14,87 sq. km, 170 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Castellerio, Plaino,
Fontanabona, Lazzacco, Zampis
Town Hall: V. del Buret, 8 - 33010 Pagnacco
Phone.: 0432.660093 Fax: 0432.650691
www.comune.pagnacco.ud.it
|
|
|
At Pagnacco several
typical rural
buildings can still be
seen and special
mention must be made
of the rural village at the foot
of the Castle of Fontanabona,
still characterized by partly
|
 |
16th- and 17th-century
architecture and by the original
urban plan. Some lovely villas
are scattered in the surrounding
countryside, among which Villa
Colombatti at Castellerio and
Villa Savorgnan di Brazzą at
Pagnacco are worth seeing. The
parish church of S. Giorgio in
Pagnacco contains an exquisite
16th-century spout by
Bernardino da Bissone, and the
church of S. Floreano at Plaino
has a fresco by Carlo Boldi
portraying the Adoration of the
Magi (end of 18th cent.).
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
It is not certain that the name Udine is of
pre-Roman origin, as researchers support,
deriving from a word meaning 'mamma'
and then metaphorically 'hill'. The fact is,
however, that from the hill in the middle
of the city (which according to a
legend was formed with the earth
carried in Attila's soldiers'
helmets since the king, after
having sacked Aquileia, wanted to see
it on fire) it is possible to sweep in
one look the whole of Friuli, from...go
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
