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Pop.: 2,214
Area: 23,95 sq. km, 121 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Barazzetto, Cisterna,
Maseris, Nogaredo di Corno
Town Hall: L.go Municipio, 124 - 33030 Coseano
Phone.: 0432.861074 Fax: 0432.861289
www.comune.coseano.ud.it
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Historically, the
name of Coseano
is linked to the
peculiar position the
whole town took in
1886: it was the only town in
Friuli to vote against
annexation to Italy, deserving
the name of 'Cosean dal no'.
In the parish church of
S. Giacomo are a cycle of
frescoes by Lorenzo Bianchini
in the choir and nave
(Crucifixion, the Virgin with
St. James and the souls of
Purgatory, 19th cent.) and by
Titta Gori in the vault
(Evangelists, ca. 1911), while
the 18th-century side altar
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has
statues by Giacomo Contiero.
In the parish church of
S. Maria Assunta at Cisterna,
Fred Pittino left good frescoes,
lively in colour and traditional
in the iconography, on the
presbytery end wall and
controfacciata (Miracle of the
Eucharist and Madonna of
Lourdes, 1957). At Barazzetto,
in the church of SS. Pietro
and Paolo are the statues of
the two Saints by Giacomo
Contiero, ca. 1750, while in
S. Giorgio at Nogaredo di
Corno there are shown good
18th- and 19th-century marble
altars, a notable altarpiece
with St. George freeing the
painted by Giacomo Secante
in 1557. On top of the
17th-century bell tower is the
characteristic angel-shaped
weather vane by Vincenzo
Vallan from Maniago (1775).
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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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