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Pop.: 2,326
Area: 27,17 sq. km, 112 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Bonzicco, Carpacco, Vidulis
Town Hall: V. S. Gallo, 35 - 33030 Dignano
Phone.: 0432.944911 Fax: 0432.944944
www.comune.dignano.ud.i
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Mentioned in documents two hundred
years before the year 1000, the
rural parish church of SS. Pietro and
Paolo in Dignano is one of the oldest in
Friuli, although the present building
dates from the earliest 16th century, with later
remodelling and enlarging. On the façade and
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inside, on the left wall, are traces of Gothic
frescoes; under the arch and on the choir ribbed
vault is a cycle of frescoes by Giovanni Pietro
da Spilimbergo (1504) representing Evangelists,
Doctors of the Church and Saints. Giuseppe
Buzzi seems to have been the author of the 18thcentury
frescoes in the left aisle showing scenes
from the Passion. The 18th-century parish
church of S. Sebastiano (the tall columns of
the atrium date from the 1800s) preserves a late
18th-century altar by Giacomo Pischiutti with
two statues by Giacomo
Contiero (1749), frescoes by Giovanni Moro
in the presbytery and two paintings
(St. Urbano and St. Gallo) by Bernardino
Blaceo dating from the 16th century.
Finally, S. Giorgio at
Carpacco has an altar
by Giampietro da
S. Vito (1509).
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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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