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Pop.: 16,990
Area: 56,78 sq. km, 44 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Nogaredo,
Romans, Sclavons, Villa d'Arco
Town Hall: Piazza della Vittoria, 1 - 33084 Cordenons
Phone.: 0434.930151 Fax: 0434.932548
www.comune.cordenons.pn.it
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One of the most
fascinating
things about
Cordenons is that,
while westwards
the municipality territory is
increasingly becoming part of Pordenone's
urban sprawl, in the other directions a few
minutes of cycling are enough to afford the
enjoyment of highly interesting naturalistic
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areas: from the stony -magredo- (permeable
alluvial soil with little vegetation typical of
Friuli) in the north to the verdant resurgence
areas in the south. It is close to the latter that
the most interesting, both historically and
artistically, building in the area is located, the
church of S. Pietro at Sclavons, erected in
the 15th century on a site whose most ancient
vicissitudes have been explored by
archaeologists. Among the mural painting
decorating the church interior is a fresco of
San Floriano (first decade of the
16th cent.) by Gianfrancesco da Tolmezzo,
set left of the
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-arcone-, and the
dynamic Stories of St. Peter in the choir, as well as
Scenes from Genesis, right in the nave,
attributed to G. Del Zocco's hand (1551
ca.). The latter has also produced the
triptych of Virgin with Child and
SS. Caterina and Lucia in the new parish
church, not far from here. The wide main
square of Cordenons, that has been recently
remodelled, is visually centred around the
18th-century church of Santa Maria
Maggiore, in whose interior an altarpiece
by G. Narvesa (Trinity, St. Valentine,
San Floriano, Bishop Saint and
worshippers, 1595-1598), the altar of the
Rosary with sculptures by G. Torretti (early
18th century), and a Passage of St. Joseph
(1868) by M. Grigoletti are preserved.
The church of San Giacomo once again
witnesses the presence of G. Del Zocco
with the choir frescoes, while the church
of San Giovanni Battista -on the road
leading to San Quirino- has a stone statue
of the Saint by G.A. Pilacorte (1515).
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| VALVASONE, SANVITESE AND SESTO
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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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