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Pop.: 7,235
Area: 21,98 sq. km, 79 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Basaldella, Bressa, Villa Primavera
Town Hall: Lg. Municipio, 9 - 33030 Campoformido
Phone.: 0432.653511 Fax: 0432.663581
www.comune.campoformido.ud.it
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The town is best renown as the
venue where the 1797 Treaty
between France and Austria was
signed, sanctioning the end of the
century-old history of the Republic of
Venice and deeply modifying
European borders. A modest building
in Campoformido, with a walled
plaque dedicated to 'Napoleo
Magnus' near an old devotional fresco, is
popularly said to have been the
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place where
Napoleon and Austrian dignitaries met to sign
the Treaty, which was actually signed at Villa
Manin of Passariano. The church of
S. Maria of Campoformido was built in
1908 by Girolamo D'Aronco, the same
architect of the church of Immacolata
Concezione (1877-1888) and bell tower
(1907) at Bressa: both the building and interior
fittings (altars, stalls, pulpit, Via Crucis, etc.)
are Neo-Gothic. At Basaldella the small
church of S. Sebastiano contains modest late
15th-century frescoes and the parish church
of S. Martino has some good paintings
of the 1600s and 1700s.
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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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