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Pop.: 14,408
Area: 74,60 sq. km, 43 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Beano, Biauzzo, Goricizza, Iutizzo,
Lonca, Muscletto, Passariano, Pozzo, Rividischia,
Rivolto, SanMartin o, SanPietro, Zompicchia
Town Hall: P. Garibaldi, 81 - 33033 Codroipo
Phone.: 0432.906534 Fax: 0432.908492
www.comune.codroipo.ud.it
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The name of Codroipo derives from
Latin Quadruvium, a crossroads
of the Via Postumia and Via Iulia
Concordia ad silanos. The place was
inhabited since Roman times, which
explains the numerous archaeological finds
most of which are now displayed in the local
museum. Interesting rural districts are found
at a Goricizza, Lonca, Muscletto, Passariano,
San Martino
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as well as ancient mills, as the
still operating Mulino di Bert, dating to 1450.
Several prestigious civil buildings are spread
in the municipality, among which mention
must be made of Villa Colloredo Mels,
at Muscletto,
with its
small
central body
flanked by
two towers
and rustic
annexes,
large park
and fishpond;
at San Martino, Villa
Kechler, erected between the 16th and 17th
centuries, has a manor house with large central
salon, double grand staircase and large park.
Religious buildings contain remarkable works
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of art: the church of S. Maria Maggiore,
rebuilt between 1731 and 1752 by Francesco
and Pietro Andrioli, has a Baroque altar with
two marble statues by Angelo Marinali and a
wooden Pietà set (16th cent.); other altars
were made by Giorgio Massari, Giambattista
Bettini, Pietro Balbi, Andrea Scala (the author
of the Neoclassical altar of the Crucifix);
moreover, there are paintings by Pietro Politio
(1550), Gaspare Diziani (1765), Giuseppe
Tominz. Michelangelo Grigoletti, and
frescoes by Giovanni De Min and Lorenzo
Bianchini. Inside S. Caterina at Lonca,
Bernardino Blaceo left a wooden triptych
with painted figures (1537). At Rivolto, in the
parish church of S. Michele is a
17th-century wooden altar by Osvaldo
Gortanutti and frescoes by Antonio da Firenze
(end of 15th cent.) in the small church
of S. Cecilia.
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It is not certain that the name Udine is of
pre-Roman origin, as researchers support,
deriving from a word meaning 'mamma'
and then metaphorically 'hill'. The fact is,
however, that from the hill in the middle
of the city (which according to a
legend was formed with the earth
carried in Attila's soldiers'
helmets since the king, after
having sacked Aquileia, wanted to see
it on fire) it is possible to sweep in
one look the whole of Friuli, from...go
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