| Municipality of Fiumicello
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Pop.: 4,297
Area: 22,90 sq. km, 6 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Papariano, San Antonio, San Lorenzo,
San Valentino
Town Hall: V. Gramsci, 8 - 33050 Fiumicello
Phone.: 0431.96005 Fax: 0431.969261
www.comune.fiumicello.ud.it
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River Isonzo flows close to the
town in a land rich in water
(see Parco dell'Isonzo). Originally
a suburb of Roman Aquileia,
Fiumicello was crossed by Via
Gemina, on both sides of which stood elegant
villas and important necropolises (the majestic
Mausoleum of Candia, now reconstructed in
Aquileia, was found here). In the neighbourhood
of San Lorenzo an
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interesting medieval house,
probably a hospice, and the 16th-century Pieve
of S. Lorenzo may be seen, the latter boasting
the bell tower on the façade and the high altar
with an impressive stone set of Mourning of
Christ by Carlo da Carona (1547). The same
artist is also the author of St. Valentine's statue
preserved in the Parish church dedicated to the
Saint. Villa Gorup De Franzoni and its chapel,
Villa Peteani Rigatti and Villa Gregorutti
date instead from the 18th century. The town
of Fiumicello is well renown in Italy for its
excellent production of peaches.
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| BASSA FRIULANA
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The name "Bassa"
identifies the Friuli plains
extending towards the Adriatic,
beginning more or less from the so-called
Stradalta (just a bit south
of the present-day
Strada
Napoleonica),
namely below the line of
resurgences from which
rivers or streams or
simply natural springs
often originate,
contributing to shaping the...go
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