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Pop.: 770
Area: 15,36 sq. km, 607 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Casali, Cercivento di Sopra,
Cercivento di Sotto
Town Hall: V. Di Sot, 6 - 33020 Cercivento
Phone.: 0433.778408 Fax: 0433.778703
www.comune.cercivento.ud.it
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The small town of Cercivento
still retains the 17th- and 18thcentury
urban plan, with its typical
buildings with loggias and crossvault
entrance halls, the most
charming of which is certainly Casa
Morassi, with its elegant arches on two
floors. The parish church of S. Martino
has a lovely high altar dating to 1749 by
Sebastiano Pischiutti from Gemona with two
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good-quality
statues by
Francesco
Bonazza from
Padua. A rare
work by Swiss
painter Matthäus
Zehender (1664)
is the Virgin
of the Belt
painting. At
Cercivento di sotto
the Farie dal Checo, an ancient smithy
already mentioned in documents in
1426 and still operating
(with water-powered machinery), has been
recently made into a Museum.
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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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