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Pop.: 1,902
Area: 29,13 sq. km, 270 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Cornino, Flagogna, Monte Prat, S.Rocco
Town Hall: P.Tre Martiri - 33030 Forgaria nel Friuli
Phone.: 0427.808042 Fax: 0427.808136
www.comune.forgarianelfriuli.ud.it
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The parish church of S. Lorenzo at
Forgaria was already mentioned in
a document of 1254 and had been
embellished - between the 19th and
20th centuries - with frescoes by
brothers Giuseppe and Luigi Filipponi from
Udine (1899), Francesco Barazzutti from
Gemona (1911), Giuseppe Barazzutti (1938),
Antonio Della Marina and Domenico Forgiarini
(1947). It was completely destroyed in 1976
during the earthquake and is now being
restored, as are other public and religious
buildings in the territory. In the reconstructed
church of Madonna at Flagogna a notable
wooden bust of the Virgin with blessing Child
(end of 15th cent., Domenico
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da Tolmezzo's
studio) is preserved; the 16th-century carved
wooden altar by Battista Martini is going to
be placed here (it was formerly set in S. Nicoḷ
at Flagogna and has been excellently restored
after the earthquake). The Castle of
S. Giovanni, or Castelnuovo, located on a
hill ridge dominating the town of Flagogna,
dates instead to the 13th century.
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The pleasant hilly area of Friuli, the
strip of land running from Gemona to
San Daniele almost to reach the suburbs
of Udine, has always been, through the
centuries, subject to earthquakes: suffice
it to mention the appalling
earthquakes of 1348
(also mentioned by
the Florentine historian
Filippo Villani), of
1511 (that halfdestroyed
Udine...go
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