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Pop.: 323
Area: 26,89 sq. km, 455 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Alcheda, Bosplans, Prapiero, Rompagnel
Town Hall: Via G. d Annunzio 42 - 33080 Andreis
Phone.: 0427.76007 Fax: 0427.76304
www.comune.andreis.pn.it
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The town of Andreis is
characterized by the close
connection between the town and its
natural surroundings, reinforced by the
presence in the same building of the
Museo Etnografico dell'Arte e Civiltà
contadina (Ethnographic Museum of Country
Art and Civilization) and
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and visit centre of the Natural Park of the
Friuli Dolomites, as well as by the typical rural
multi-storey houses, with external staircase
made of stone and wood and landing closed by
a small gate. Most works of art are concentrated
in the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie:
from the polychrome marble high altar, with
shrine by G.B. Bettini (1748) and statues of
SS. Peter and Paul (1750 ca.) by G. Contiero
from Padua, to the mid-1700s marble St. Sebastian
in Venetian style, showing fluidity of
movement and extreme ability in the fretwork on
the plinth; from the altarpiece with the Virgin of
Rosary with Child and Saints to the Baptistery
by Pietro Colusso di Meduno (1668)..
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The territory ranges from the
pleasant plains at the foot of the
mountains in the Aviano area
(where the silent jewel of Castel
d'Aviano stands out) to the doublefaced
high mountains, showing the
modern tourist
mountain resorts on the one hand
(of which Piancavallo, with its
ski slopes, cross-country
trails and aspirations to
become a little...go
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