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Pop.: 4,925
Area: 42,93 sq. km, 74 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Basagliapenta,
Blessano, Orgnano, Variano,
Villaorba, Vissandone
Town Hall: P. Municipio, 1 - 33031 Basiliano
Phone.: 0432.838111 Fax: 0432.838110
www.comune.basiliano.ud.it
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Until 1923 the
municipality
was called Pasian
Schiavonesco, in
honour of the Slavs
that had repopulated the area
after the Hungarian invasions
and devastations at the end
of the first millennium. The
place, however, was inhabited
since prehistory (an
important castelliere was
found at Variano) and in
Roman times, as supported
by archaeological finds. The
most remarkable church is
certainly the church of
S. Leonardo at Variano,
standing at the top of a hill
to which frescoed sacred
scenes were added in 1533
by a popular painter. 13thcentury,
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and well-made, are
instead the frescoes in the
lovely small church of S.
Marco, in the open countryside.
Good 18th-century altars
in polychrome marble are
found in the church of
S. Michele Arcangelo at
Vissandone, frescoes by
Francesco Cucchiaro (1763)
in the parish church of
S. Maria Assunta at
Basagliapenta, and an altarpiece
by Innocenzo Brugno
(1599) in the church of
S. Stefano at Blessano
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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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