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Pop.: 8220,
Area: 113,46 sq. km, 159 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Beorchia, Castel d'Aviano, Costa
Ornedo, Giais, Marsure, Pedemonte, Piancavallo, San
Martino di Campagna, Somprado, Selva, Villotta
Town Hall: Piazza Matteotti, 1 - 33081 Aviano
Phone.: 0434.666511 Fax: 0434.666515
www.piancavallo.com
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Strong Corinthian columns with
smooth shafts placed on tall bases
support the lintel topped by a
projecting moulding: this is the relief
combination of elements that appears
on the façade and is repeated along the inside
walls of the nave of the Neoclassical church
of San Zenone, planned by Francesco Riccati
in the late 1700s and completed by Giovan
Battista Bassi in 1832. This network of plastic
elements is the framework in which the
artistic wealth of the Duomo spreads before
the beholder: from the Enthroned Virgin with
Child among SS. Rocco, Zenone, Francis and
Sebastian by Pietro da Vicenza (1514), whose
characters are set under the barrel
vault where prospective hardly
reconciles the anatomy of
individual figures with the
rendition of spatial unity, to the
Altarpiece of the Virgin of
Rosary (1617) by Gaspare
Narvesa, the only Friulian
painter capable of developing,
in the decades straddling the
16th and 17th centuries, his
individual style, free from
the prevailing influences by
Pordenone. The most
remarkable features of his
paintings are first of all the freshness of
subject matter, which, especially in drapery,
results from the superimposition of angular
layers, then the arrangements of figures
based on exasperated perspective and finally
the clashing
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combination of colours,
matching pink and orange with vermilion
and metallic blue (closer in this to the anticlassical
experimentation of Pontormo and
Rosso Fiorentino rather than to the Venetian
tradition). Richer yet is the decorative pattern
in the cultural buildings of Castel d'Aviano,
starting form the cemetery church of
Santa Giuliana, showing the wide fresco
cycle dating to the earliest phase of its
4th-century construction. Set on the nave
walls, the frescoes develop in three
superimposed strips of Saints and Virgins,
thus suggesting a summa of the most
widespread styles and devotional
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iconography in Friuli in the second half of
the 14th century. Gianfrancesco da Tolmezzo
is the author of the frescoes in the small
church of San Gregorio (end of 15th
century), portraying the crucial episodes of
Christ's Passion. In the Last Supper
scene, the author seems to
concentrate mainly on the
graphic definition of
characters, though the
Crucifixion on the left walls
shows how the painter from
Tolmezzo distances himself
from the model of northern
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European engravers (which he had used
for the rest of the cycle and at Provesano in
1496), thus getting ready, in his last decade of
activity, to set his knotty creatures in a
universe made of pulsating chromaticism,
softer volumes and suggestive atmospheres,
more in line with the inescapable sweetness
of Bellini's painting. The oratories of
S. Floriano and S. Pellegrino at S. Martino
di Campagna also preserve beautiful
examples of mural painting, as well as, and
especially, the church of Santa Caterina at
Marsure, with a large cycle of frescoes by
G. Stefanelli (1547). As for sculpture, the
Renaissance wooden Pietà in the parish
church of San Lorenzo at Marsure is
remarkable, as well as a mid-15th-century
sandstone Vesperbild in the parish church of
Castello and the Shrine in Istrian stone
(end of 16th cent.) in the oratory of
Sant'Antonio, included in the complex of
Villa Policreti-Fabris at Ornedo.
And even though the plan of Palazzo
Menegozzi at Aviano is reminiscent of the
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18th-century villa architecture, the most
notable example of the genre is Villa
Policreti at Castello, whose large park was
reshaped in the mid-1800s by architect
P. Quaglia, the author of other late-Romantic
landscaping works in Friuli.
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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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