| Municipality of Faedis
|
|
Pop.: 3,069
Area: 46,61 sq. km, 172 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Campeglio, Canal di
Grivņ, Canebola, Clap, Raschiacco,
Ronchis, Valle di Soffumbergo
Town Hall: P. Monsignor Pelizzo, 13 - 33040 Faedis
Phone.: 0432.728007 Fax: 0432.728897
www.comune.faedis.ud.it
|
|
|
The parish church
of S. Maria
Assunta is a large,
stern neo-Gothic
church designed and
built by Domenico Rupolo and
consecrated in 1934. A 16thcentury
fresco with the Last
Supper by Francesco Nasocchi
is notable inside, together with a
Pentecost altarpiece attributable
to Francesco Floreani (1593)
and a beautiful Baroque high
altar. The small church of S.
Maria in Colvillano contained
paintings by Giovanni Martini
which were unfortunately
stolen around
|
 |
1975, but now
still preserves good frescoes by
Gaspare Negro (16th cent.),
while the cemetery church of
S. Pietro degli Slavi has a
remarkable wooden altar by
Giovanni Martini (1522)
devised with a Renaissance
structure with statues of Virgin
with Child and Saints in niches
on two levels. The ruins of the
castles of Zucco and
Cucagna stand on the
surrounding hills, with the
small church of Madonna di
Zucco and its 14th-century
fresco. Also the Castle of
Soffumbergo, built in the 12th-
14th centuries over Campeglio,
is now dilapidated.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| CIVIDALE
|
|
 |
Cividāt no je une vile, ma une
ponte di citāt /Cividale is not a
village but a small town, as the
lines of a famous Friulian villotta
rightly sing: Cividale, in fact, since
its foundation by the
Romans, was the
main city in the area and under
the Lombards the capital of
the Duchy of Friuli. Still
today, thanks to its
urban plan, its
monuments, the...go
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
