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Pop.: 94,759
Area: 56,81 sq. km, 113 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Baldasseria Bassa, Beivars,
Cormor Alto, Cormor Basso, Cussignacco, Godia,
Laipacco, Rizzi, San Gottardo
Town Hall: Via Lionello, 1 - 33100 Udine
Phone.: 0432.271111 Fax: 0432.271617
www.comune.udine.it
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Related links:
- Castle of Udine
- Duomo of Udine
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background of
decorative stucco work (1694) and a lovely
marble altar attributed to Giovanni Comin
with marble statues by Enrico Merengo.
The ancient buildings fronting onto nearby
Piazza di Mercatonuovo (dating to the 15th
century) are often very refined with their
softly decorated single- or triple-lancet
windows or ornamental frescoes. On the square raised area stand an 1487 column
with Our Lady statue and the 16th-century
fountain by Giovanni da Udine. On one side
the square is closed by the church of
S. Giacomo with its 16th-century
façade, and the 18th-century Cappella delle
Anime (All Souls Chapel). The oratory of
Purità, beside the Duomo, is
worth a visit, to see the place where both
Giambattista Tiepolo and his son Domenico
left their works in 1759, the former with the
vault fresco (Assumption) and
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altarpiece
(Virgin), the latter with eight monochrome
scenes on the walls portraying episodes from
the Old Testament and the Gospels.
Close-by, the church of S. Francesco, today a venue for temporary
exhibitions, is one of the oldest in Udine,
with early 14th-century frescoes in the apses;
the church of Carmine, in Borgo
Aquileia, with a wide late 1600s fresco on
the ceiling; the church of
S. Chiara, in Borgo Gemona,
exquisitely elegant with its marble altars and
Giulio Quaglio's frescoes, made in 1699
inside a stucco decoration framework; the basilica
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of S. Maria delle Grazie , a
renown sanctuary preserving a much
worshipped image of Virgin with Child, a
14th-century painting on wood in an
imitation of the Byzantine style brought to
Udine by Lieutenant Giovanni Emo in
1479. This church contains may other
works of art, among which the 1522
painting on wood by Luca Monverde on
the high altar, four paintings by Domenico
Tintoretto, two by Giuseppe Diziani and
several ex-voto and jewels, including the
so-called Devil's Mask, a precious
15th-century armour on which a curious
popular story is told.
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The basilica opens
onto Giardin Grande, the wide green
below the Castle already mentioned in the
14th century when it belonged to the
Patriarchs, where Boccaccio set one of his
tales, defining it a 'garden full of green
grass and flowers and leafy trees'. Among
palaces, which are generally measured
17th- and 18th-century buildings, at least a
few must be mentioned, in particular:
Palladio's Palazzo Antonini (1556),
strong and gentle at the same time, now
housing the Bank of Italy;
Palazzo Antonini - Belgrado, the
seat of the Provincial Board, with a large
hall frescoed by Giulio Quaglio (1698),
Palazzo Strassoldo, at Via Vittorio Veneto,
frescoed by Giulio Quaglio (1692) as the
Palazzo della Porta (now the
Archiepiscopal Palace, 1692),
Palazzo di Maniago at Via Poscolle (1695)
and Palazzo Braida at Via Aquileia (1696);
Palazzo di Brazzà, which belonged to the
family of famous explorer Pietro Savorgnan
di Brazzà who discovered Congo, with
frescoes by Andrea
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Urbani;
Palazzo Caiselli, at Piazza S. Cristoforo,
with frescoes by Marino Urbani and
Giambattista Canal, and finally
Palazzo Valvason Morpurgo
at via Savorgnana,
with a spectacular
cycle of
frescoes by
Giambattista
Canal
(1805).
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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
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