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Pop.: 2,181
Area: 13,03 sq. km, 18 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Joannis
Town Hall: Via XXIV Maggio, 8 - 33041 Aiello del Friuli
Phone.: 0431.99021 Fax: 0431.999934
www.comune.aiellodelfriuli.ud.it
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Although Roman
in origin, the
town's outstanding
monuments date
from the 17th to the
19th centuries: noble
residences (mainly along
Viale Vittorio Emanuele) as
the imposing Villa Michieli, Zamparini,
with family chapel, Villa Strassoldo, Parisi,
Sabot, of clear Venetian stamp with its superb
park, Villa Peteani, Steimberg, D'Attems,
with its airy façade marked by pilasters and
walled coat-of-arms, and furthermore, at the
crossroads with Via XXIV
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Maggio, the elegant
Villa De Fin, Teuffembach, with its front
courtyard. In the town centre stands
the 17th-century parish church of S.
Ulderico, showing Roman remains (on the
left is an illustrated epigraph of M. Caesius
Priscus, dated 1st cent. AD) on the façade;
inside, works by Pietro Bainville (1674-
1749), Arturo Colavini (1800s), Clemente Del
Neri (1865-1943) are preserved. Moreover,
the convent complex of S. Domenico (17th
cent.) is worth mentioning and, along the road
to Joannis, a complex of medieval buildings
in centa (surrounded by
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walls) with the ruins
of the old church of S. Agnese and the
curate's house, to which a canepa for storage
is attached. Located in some late-19th-century
farm storerooms, the Museum of Country
Traditions in Imperial Friuli houses a large
collection of agricultural tools. The peculiar
series of sundials recreated both in the
Museum courtyard and in private houses has
earned the town of Aiello the nickname of
"the town of sundials". Another important
evidence of the town's rural past is the
existence of three mills. In the neighbourhood
of Joannis, one of the most untouched
examples of Friuli rural town planning is
found built around Palazzo Strassoldo,
Frangipane (18th cent.) in the style of
Pacassi and still in excellent conditions.
The sober 18th-century parish church of
S. Agnese contains some precious works as
the Carrara marble high altar, the Renaissance
font and paintings datable between the
16th and 19th centuries.
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The name "Bassa"
identifies the Friuli plains
extending towards the Adriatic,
beginning more or less from the so-called
Stradalta (just a bit south
of the present-day
Strada
Napoleonica),
namely below the line of
resurgences from which
rivers or streams or
simply natural springs
often originate,
contributing to shaping the...go
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