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Pop.: 4,522
Area: 33,47 sq. km, 16 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Basedo, Taiedo, Villotta, Torrate,
Villafranca, Villalta, Villutta
Town Hall: Via Vittorio Veneto, 21 - 33083 Chions
Phone.: 0434.630570 Fax: 0434.630368
www.comune.chions.pn.it
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The flat
countryside in the
-bassa Pordenonese-
(the southern part of
the province) is the
ideal location for cycling
excursions and offers a wide
range of Renaissance
devotional painting. For
example, the church of San
Giorgio at Chions preserves
the most considerable series
of Saints and Virgins with
Child visible in the -Destra
Tagliamento-, the area right
of the river: painted in
Bellunello’s style, such
frescoes are all dated to the
first quarter of 1500s. The
church of San Liberale at
Villotta repeats the same
paratactic decorative pattern,
although the traits of
Bellunello’s followers are
complemented with Pietro
da San Vito’s trait (St. Bovo
and St. Apollonia, 1520 ca.).
Finally, the church of San
Bartolomeo at Basedo
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complements the already
mentioned iconography with
a Virgin of Mercy (end of
15th-early 16th cent.) in
which the worshippers are
portrayed in the Virgin’s
embrace.
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The whole central-eastern area of the
province is deeply marked by the
presence of waterways (which are
torrential streams at their sources
and acquire a more regular
flow further south),
first of all River
Tagliamento,
marking the eastern
border of the province,
whose fords have
determined the
distribution of towns
for centuries, hence the
impressive images of...go
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