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Pop.: 2,822
Area: 30,37 sq. km, 5 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: San Gervasio
Town Hall: P. S. Rocco, 24 - 33050 Carlino
Phone.: 0431.687811 Fax: 0431.687811
www.comune.carlino.ud.it
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The town is linked
to one of the
most important
Roman kilns in the
X Regio Venetia et
Histria, found in the
neighbourhood called
Chiamana, which operated
between the Augustan Age
and the 5th century. The kiln
produced various types of
bricks and, at a later stage,
also glass ceramic, as the area
was rich in clay deposits,
woods (e.g., the woods of
the plains called Bolderatis
and Venchiaratis), water
springs and resurgences, and,
last but not least, it was
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not
far from the sea. These
features had made the area the
ideal choice for rustic
settlements since protohistory
and for productive and craft
activities in Roman times.
Dating to more recent times
are the central parish church
of S. Tommaso Apostolo
(17th-18th centuries)
built on a pre-existing
church, containing
18th - and 19th- century
fittings, and the church of
SS. Gervasio and Protasio,
in the neighbourhood of
San Gervasio and finally, the
Church of S. Tommaso
Becket (17th-18th cent.)
and, in the neighbourhood of
Casino, the Church of
S. Domenico (17th cent.).
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| BASSA FRIULANA
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The name "Bassa"
identifies the Friuli plains
extending towards the Adriatic,
beginning more or less from the so-called
Stradalta (just a bit south
of the present-day
Strada
Napoleonica),
namely below the line of
resurgences from which
rivers or streams or
simply natural springs
often originate,
contributing to shaping the...go
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