| Municipality of Buttrio
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Pop.: 3,783
Area: 17,75 sq. km, 79 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Camino
Town Hall: V. Divisione Julia, 36 - 33042 Buttrio
Phone.: 0432.674017 Fax: 0432.673490
www.comune.buttrio.ud.it
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The hilly
landscape of
Buttrio is peppered
with prestigious
villas: Villa
Bartolini Caimo Dragoni
Florio Danieli, designed in
its present form since 1636
by master mason Pietro
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Antonio Navarra, preserves
luminous lovely frescoes
of the late 1700s by
Francesco Chiarottini and
Giovanni Battista Canal;
Villa di Toppo Florio,
formerly inhabited by
Count Francesco di Toppo
who collected a
conspicuous series of
archaeological finds from
Aquileia, opens onto a
wide park; Villa Ottelio
Papafava; Villa Morpurgo,
or Castello. Consacrated
in 1736, the parish church
of S. Maria Assunta at
Buttrio contains good 18thcentury
altars and a wooden
Virgin with Child by
Antonio Tironi (1527). In
S. Stefano are early 1500s
popular frescoes and in
S. Giacomo at Camino are
Doctors of the Church and
figures of Saints frescoed
by Gian Paolo Thanner
in 1532.
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| CIVIDALE
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Cividāt no je une vile, ma une
ponte di citāt /Cividale is not a
village but a small town, as the
lines of a famous Friulian villotta
rightly sing: Cividale, in fact, since
its foundation by the
Romans, was the
main city in the area and under
the Lombards the capital of
the Duchy of Friuli. Still
today, thanks to its
urban plan, its
monuments, the...go
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