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Pop.: 5,308
Area: 40,53 sq. km, 13 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Bagnarola, Marignana, Ramuscello,
Banduzzo, Borgo della Siega, Borgo di Sotto, Borgo
Magredo, Borgo Sacile, Braida, Braidacurti, Casette,
Fratticelle, Melmosa, Mure, Venchieredo, Versiola,
Vissignano
Town Hall: Piazza Castello, 1 - 33079 Sesto al Reghena
Phone.: 0434.693911 Fax: 0434.699500
www.comune.sesto-al-reghena.pn.it
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human life. The abbey itself (11th-12th
centuries) has a nave, aisles and transept, with
semi-circular apses, crypt and raised
presbytery, all of them typical Romanesque
features though reflecting the early 20thcentury
restorations. The controfacciata offers
a fresco of Virgin with Child
and Erfo saying farewell to his mother
Piltrude (14th cent.), while the left aisle shows
a double fresco of St. Valentine, by
Bellunello's followers, and the Procession of
St. Sebastian's Confraternity by Pietro Gorizio
(early 16th century). However, the most
remarkable frescoes are those in the apse,
transept and tiburio: the Stories of the Virgin,
St. John the Evangelist, St. Peter, St. Benedict
and Lignum Vitae, executed between the
second and third decades of the 14th century
by artists close to Giotto's studio at Padua,
show a strong sense of plasticity, volume and
space which translates to emotional intensity.
The most outstanding scenes include
St. Benedict's funerals- framed within threedimensional
architectures- and Monk Romano
taking food to the Saint, as
well as the monumental
Lignum Vitae:
Christ's
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Cross has turned into a tree (a pomegranate,
whose fruits are symbols of rebirth and
alternate with the Prophets who had foretold
the coming of the Messiah. St. Bonaventura
and St. Benedict pray at the foot of the tree
and a pelican nested at its top is portrayed in
the act of tearing its body to pieces to
feed its offspring with its blood. The crypt
houses the marble urn of Sta. Anastasia
(mid-8th century), which was originally a
cathedra or ambo in the early medieval
church, decorated with stylised vegetation, a
marble Annunciation Diptych (end of 13th
cent.) and an early 15th-century sandstone
Pietà (Vesperbild). At Bagnarola, in the
church of All Saints, P. Amalteo frescoed a
Mourning of Christ removed from the Cross
(1536-1546 ca.) reflecting Pordenone's
emotional trait. A simpler popular devotion
transpires in the frescoes at Mure, in
the Crucifix and St. Marks's
chapels (early 17th century).
As far as villas are concerned,
apart from villa Zanardini-
Fabris at Sesto (end of
18th cent.), also villa
Attimis-Freschi at
Ramuscello
(17th cent.) is
remarkable, with its
large garden
reflecting the
19th-century
landscaping
standards.
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The whole central-eastern area of the
province is deeply marked by the
presence of waterways (which are
torrential streams at their sources
and acquire a more regular
flow further south),
first of all River
Tagliamento,
marking the eastern
border of the province,
whose fords have
determined the
distribution of towns
for centuries, hence the
impressive images of...go
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