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Pop.: 18,156
Area: 32,62 sq. km, 25 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Camolli, Cavolano, Cornadella,
Ronche, San Giovanni del Tempio,
San Giovanni di Livenza, San
Michele, Sant'Odorico, Schiavoi,
Topaligo, Villorba, Vistorta
Town Hall: Piazza del Popolo, 65 - 33077 Sacile
Phone.: 0434.787111 Fax: 0434.780694
www. comune.sacile.pn.it
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The slow,
meandering
flow of River
Livenza in the
historical centre makes Sacile
one of the most picturesque
towns of western Friuli.
As usual in the typical urban
plan of Venetian towns, the
grand façade of Palazzo
Ragazzoni-Flangini-Biglia,
the most notable residential
palace in town, fronts on the
riverbanks. Outside, the
building boasts a courtyard
with statues from A. Vittoria's
studio and inside a cycle of
frescoes extolling the history
of the Ragazzoni family by
F. Montemezzano
(end of 16th century). Also the
porticoed Church of
Madonna della Pietà
(17th century) fronts on the
riverbanks: with its unusual
hexagonal plan, the church
houses one of the greatest
examples of Vesperbild in the
region (namely, the sculpture
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of Pietà to which vespertine
prayers were addressed,
according to a central- and
northern European tradition)
realized in the mid-1400s of
gusstein, a mixture of ground
sandstone, plaster and marble
powder that is cast in moulds
from which the sculpture is
obtained, later to be chiselled
by the artist. It is from the
river that the best view of the
apse of the Duomo of San
Nicolò is enjoyed (recently,
such view has been highly
enhanced by the building of a
pedestrian bridge). Rebuilt
between 1471 and 1496 by
Beltrame and Vittorio da
Como (while Giovanni
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da
Pordenone built the bell
tower) under the influence of
the Venetian architecture of
the time, particularly clear in
the façade reminiscent of
Codussi's models, and heavily
redecorated inside in the 19th
century, the duomo preserves
important works of art,
among which the frescoes by
G. Battista da Udine and A.
Zago portraying busts of
Prophets and Sybils
(straddling the 15th and 16th
centuries, inspired to the print
prototypes by a Tuscan artist),
formerly located under the
central trusses and now
exhibited in a chapel
adjoining the left aisle. Other
conspicuous works include a
painting by F. Bassano with
Enthroned Virgin with Child
among SS. John the Baptist
and Antonio Abate, with
enthroned San Nicola
between SS. Michael
Archangel and George
(1589-1590) at the entrance
of the left aisle, and the large
wall cycle by P. Casarini
(1946) completely
decorating the apse. On the
square outside the duomo
front Palazzo Ovio-Gobbi
(16th-18th centuries, today the
rectory) on whose upstairs
floor is a large hall with 18thcentury
stucco decorations
and historical-allegorical
frescoes; Palazzo Carli
(16th-17th centuries), by the
rigorous volumetric plan, and
the Palazzetto della
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Fabbriceria, on whose
façade traces of an early
16th-century fresco (formerly
attributed to Pordenone)
portraying the SS. Bishops,
worshippers and members of
the Confraternita dei Battuti
are still visible. The large
Piazza del Popolo is
dominated by the Town Hall
and Loggia (15th-16th
centuries), which testify, the
modern restructuring
notwithstanding, the effective
adherence to civil Venetian
architecture that is also
found in the
surrounding
buildings,
with their
fronts symmetrically
developed around the central
windows with balcony and
rear berthing on the river. The
panorama of important
religious buildings is
complemented by the
Church of San Gregorio
(16th cent.), on whose walls
are found, surviving decay,
frescoes such as a portrait of
as San Giacomo dated 1519
and fragments of a frieze
with the typical Renaissance
alternation of sacred and
mythological characters, and
the modern Church of
S. Michele, where the wide
stained-glass window with
St. Michael
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Archangel on a
drawing by Luigi Veronesi,
one of the great masters of
abstractionism in Italy, is
noteworthy. At Vistorta the
church of Santa Maria
delle Grazie is an
interesting example
of rural religious
architecture, on
whose walls a
series of Virgin
with Child
paintings, dating to
the 15th and 16th
centuries, is a clear
token of popular
ad personam
devotion.
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| HOLIDAY FARM B&B LE FAVOLE (SACILE)
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| Our farm structure offers you a quiet, friendly environment for a pleasant, relaxing, cordial stay.
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| The farm holidays "Le Favole" offers you an exclusive Bed and breakfast in Sacile.
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| PORDENONE AND LIVENZA AREA
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The landscape surrounding
Pordenone is lively and varied,
changing from the ups and downs of
the Pedemontana hills and the green
area of Polcenigo to the expanse
of cultivated and clay-coloured fields
of the southern area.
The geographic, historical
and cultural
development of
the whole territory
has
been
marked by go
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