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Pop.: 6,035
Area: 37,02 sq. km, 177 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Battaglia,
Ciconicco, Madrisio, Villalta
Town Hall: P. Unità d Italia, 3 - 33034 Fagagna
Phone.: 0432.812111 Fax: 0432.810065
www.comune.fagagna.ud.it
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Even though the
Fagagna area had
been inhabited since
Roman times, the
oldest document
mentioning the place is dated
983, when Emperor Ottone II
confirmed that the Patriarch
of Aquileia Rodoaldo had full
temporal powers over the
castle of Fagagna. In those
times a church must have
existed too, later destroyed,
as the castle, of which little
remains. Built high on top of
a hill, the Pieve of S. Maria
Assunta dates from the 17th century, with its salient
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façade, nave and aisles.
Inside it contains a font by
G.A. Pilacorte dated 1504,
while the high altar dates
from 1703-1705 and is
graced with two statues of
Annunciation by Giacomo
Giovanni Contiero (1759);
more sculptures by the same
author are found to the side
of the Rosary Altar.
The parish church of
S. Giacomo, today showing
19th-century forms, has apse
frescoes by Sebastiano Santi
dating to the years 1849-50,
the same period in which the
high altar was made
(Pietro Fantoni), ten years
later to be complemented
with statues by
Luigi
Minisini. Giacomo Secante's
altarpiece of Virgin with
Child and
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Saints is definitely older, dating to the
year 1555. Fagagna played a
crucial role in the Friuli
Homeland and under
Venetian rule, as witnessed
by the 16th-century Casa
della Comunità. An even
more essential role was
played by the lords of
Villalta, as their castle was
involved in important
episodes, not least the plot
against Patriarch Bertrand
after which the building was
completely razed to the
ground (1353). Rebuilt and
often modified, the castle
appears today as
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one of the
most imposing and charming
in the region, partly
preserving its original
medieval plan with
embattled tower, keep, and
rampart walks, which tell
the willing listeners the
history of its noble owners,
from Enrico of Villalta,
mentioned in 12th-century
documents, to the Counts
Torre who had it rebuilt in
the 1500s, down to its
present owners. The parish
church of SS. Pietro and
Paolo in Villalta shows two
good paintings by Giuseppe
Buzzi (18th cent.), while
that of SS. Cosma and
Damiano in Ciconicco,
remodelled in Neoclassical
style by Giuseppe
Zandigiacomo (1854), has
an interesting series of 18th century
marble altars. The
ancient church of
Madonna di Tavella at
Madrisio boasts a Roman
bas-relief and 13th- and
16th-century frescoes, while
the church of
S. Leonardo at Fagagna
still has an interesting
though much ruined cycle
of frescoes dating from
the 1400s.
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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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