| Municipality of Fiume Veneto
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Pop.: 10,111
Area: 35,76 sq. km, 20 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Bannia,
Cimpello, Pescincanna, Praturlone
Town Hall: Via Ricchieri, 1 - 33080 Fiume Veneto
Phone.: 0434.562200 Fax: 0434.562290
www.comune.fiumeveneto.pn.it
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Fiume Veneto is
often identified
with its wide
industrial estate
and, at the same
time, with one of the main
residential areas of nearby
Pordenone. However, it has
artistic importance of its own
thanks to sites as the church
of Santa Maria della
Tavella (with late 14th century
mural painting in the
choir), the church of San
Giacomo at Praturlone (with
frescoes by A.
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Zago, dated
1503, including a Crucifixion
and Miracles of St. James, the
latter quite recurrent in local
iconography between the 14th
and 16th centuries) and the
church of San Michele
Arcangelo at Pescincanna,
whose walls have recently
revealed fragments of an
exquisite frescoed cycle
datable to the 13th century
with episodes from the lives
of Mary and Jesus.
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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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