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Pop.: 3,725
Area: 32,84 sq. km, 3 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Morsano di Strada
Town Hall: V. Roma - 33050 Castions di Strada
Phone.: 0432.768011 Fax: 0432.768084
www.comune.castionsdistrada.ud.it
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Humid grassland,
moors and
woods of the plains
(Boscat) are typical
of the area, where a
protohistoric castelliere of
the plains was found in the
neighbourhood of Cjastilir.
The Romans included the
area in the route of
Via Postumia and, in the
Middle Ages, probably on
the same site of the
castelliere, a fortified
village was built, the socalled
Stradalta. Medieval
is the
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church
of S. Martino, datable to
Poppone's Patriarchate
who, in 1031, bestowed
Villa di Castions onto the
Aquileia Chapter. In it,
fragments of Romanesque
frescoes portraying the
Apostles and a wooden
statue of S. Nicoḷ
reminiscent of Tolmezzo's
style are preserved. Recent
works in the church of
S. Maria delle Grazie
(15th-16th centuries) have
restored a cycle of frescoes
dated 1534 by Venetian
painter Gaspare Negro
(1475 ca.-1549) to their
original readability and
chromatic contrast: the
frescoes illustrate the
crucial events of Christ's
and the Virgin's lives:
Nativity, Maundy,
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Ascension, Dormitio
Virginis (New Testament) side by side with episodes
from the lives of
S. Biagio and S. Maria
Maddalena.
The airy setting and
spontaneous gestures and
expressions on popular
characters, the light
pervading every single
scene are the features of
these remarkable
high-quality Renaissance
frescoes which represent
the masterpiece of a minor
(?) painter. Mention must
be made also of the parish
church of Morsano,
containing an altar by
Giambattista Cucchiaro
(1739) and a shrine door by
Giuseppe Canal, and of
some rural and noble
residences among which
Villa Deganis, Ionico
(19th cent.) and Palazzo
Grassi, Digaspero
(18th 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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