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Pop.: 1,228
Area: 14,76 sq. km, 210 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Colle
Town Hall: Via V. Emanuele, 19 - 33090 Arba
Phone.: 0427.93032 Fax: 0427.938878
www.comunearba.it
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The building of
the Neoclassical
parish church of
Arba was carried
out between 1836
and 1861; it was then
frescoed with a Fall of
the Rebel Angels by
P. Sopracasa in 1921 and
made even more precious
by some works of art
coming from the old
parish church, among
which a 16th-century
baptismal font and
especially the high altar,
showing a bas-relief with
Angel adoring the
Eucharist and the statues
of Archangels Raphael
and Michael, executed
by G. Contiero in the
1760s according to the
fluffy plasticity of 18thcentury
Venetian
altarpiece art. The
rugged, though
fascinating surrounding
landscape is revived
every now and then by a
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few examples of
contemporary
architecture, such as the
Town Hall (1969-1973),
designed by architects
G. Gresleri and S. Varnier,
or the church of San
Gottardo at Colle, built in
1987 on a design by
E. Polesel from Sacile.
Inside is a 17th-century
carved ambo survived to
the demolition of the older
building after the 1976
earthquake.
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While the Maniago area has been
marked by the century-old tradition of
knife makers, that has provided the
necessary support to its industrial
growth, Spilimbergo has
had a similar
experience
in the field of
mosaic
creation, as
the local
Mosaic School has
worked for decades at
the highest levels, also
obtaining important
international orders. But
Spilimbergo is...go
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