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Pop.: 1,139
Area: 38,69 sq. km, 280 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Cesclans, Mena, Somplago
Town Hall: P. dei Caduti - 33020 Cavazzo Carnico
Phone.: 0433.93003 Fax: 0433.93417
www.comune.cavazzocarnico.ud.it
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Cavazzo Carnico was
mentioned as early as
the late 11th century
as it was among the
rural churches
assigned by Patriarch
Vodolrico to the Abbey of
Moggio. From above, the
lovely rural church of
Cesclans dominates the towns
of the great lake (called of
Cavazzo or of the
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three
towns): it was demolished by
the 1976 earthquake, but the
recent archaeological
excavations carried out during
the reconstruction phase have
brought to light fragments of
frescoes and pottery, which
support the idea that the
church has existed for a very
long time. Today, the most
important church, from the
artistic point of view, is the
18th-century S. Daniele
preserving a small painting
by Pietro Antonio Novelli,
two good paintings brought
here from Venice at the end
of the 19th century (Nativity
by Domenico Tintoretto and
Flight to Egypt by Francesco
Bassano), as well as paintings
by Giuseppe Buzzi, who also
left paintings in S. Rocco.
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Those who want to understand what
Carnia was like in the past centuries, the
customs of its inhabitants, their ways of
facing the difficulties of life in an often
hostile environment, their religious spirit,
their everyday life, those must not miss
the Museum of Tolmezzo,
where in so many years
of devout dedication
and research
the illustrious ...go
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