| Municipality of Gemona del Friuli
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Pop.: 11,040
Area: 52,26 sq. km, 272 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Campagnola, Campolessi, Godo,
Maniaglia, Ospedaletto, Piovega, Taboga, Stalis
Town Hall: Piazza del Municipio, 1 - 33013 Gemona del Friuli
Phone.: 0432.973211 Fax: 0432.971090
www.gemonaweb.it
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...Pinacoteca (among them, a Virgin with
Child by Cima da Conegliano) or in other
churches. The Sanctuary of S. Antonio
was rebuilt, instead, and it might be
considered the oldest sanctuary dedicated
to the Saint: the primitive chapel, as shown
in documents, was erected by the Saint
himself in honour of Madonna delle Grazie
around 1227 and consecrated to him in
1248, 17 years after his death and a few
decades before the opening of the Padua
Basilica. Inside, it preserves the ruins of the
13th-century chapel and fragments of
Melchiorre Widmar's frescoes (1682), who
also executed two large paintings with
Circumcision of Jesus and
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Adoration of the Magi. Renovated in its architecture, the
result of a peculiar interweaving of
innovation and formal tradition, after the
1976 earthquake which almost completely
destroyed it, Gemona, in most of its new
buildings, has witnessed the triumph of
avant-garde, especially post-modern,
architecture. The general reconstruction
has, however, never slighted the memory of
what already existed through the
reintroduction of the original urban
space-architectural elements ratio.
In Ospedaletto, close to the neo-Gothic
church of S. Spirito there used to stand
the ancient 13th-century Hospice,
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built at
the behest of Corrado Marzutto of the lords
of Gemona and bishop of Trieste to
welcome pilgrims; it then became the
Priorato di Santo Spirito and now houses
the parsonage. The small church
of Ognissanti shows a delightful series of
frescoes dating to the end of the
14th century and the beginning of the
15th, including Christ in the Apocalypse,
the Virgin and Saints and scenes from
Christ's Passion.
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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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