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Pop.: 465
Area: 101,21 sq. km, 652 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: San Floriano
Town Hall: Via Vittorio Emanuele II, 27 - 33080 Cimolais
Phone.: 0427.87019 Fax: 0427.87020
www.comune.cimolais.pn.it
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Afavourite location for mountain
climbers (since they can
challenge here the famous Campanile
of Val Montanaia or the Cima dei
Preti, whose top is more than 2700
metres high) and nature enthusiasts in general
(for whom the climb up to Rifugio Pordenone
is challenge
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enough), Cimolais is interesting
also for art enthusiasts: apart from
a stone font with wooden covering
(17th century) and mid-1900s frescoes by
G. Modolo, the parish church of
Santa Maria also preserves one of the most
expressive examples of baroque wooden altars
in the province, namely the sumptuous 17thcentury
high altar (including a Virgin with
Child between SS. John the Baptist and John
the Evangelist) carved by G. Auregne from
Cadore. The same artist is also attributed the
two -macchine lignee- (wooden machines) to
the sides dedicated respectively to the Rosary
and Crucifx. Plainer 17th- and 18th-century
altars ornate the church of San Floriano.
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The territory ranges from the
pleasant plains at the foot of the
mountains in the Aviano area
(where the silent jewel of Castel
d'Aviano stands out) to the doublefaced
high mountains, showing the
modern tourist
mountain resorts on the one hand
(of which Piancavallo, with its
ski slopes, cross-country
trails and aspirations to
become a little...go
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