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Pop.: 5,875
Area: 8,16 sq. km, 169 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Casasola, Comerzo, Farla, Pers, San Eliseo,
San Salvatore, San Tommaso, Susans, Tiveriacco
Town Hall: P.Italia, 38 - 33030 Majano
Phone.: 0432.948455 Fax: 0432.948183
www.comune.majano.ud.it
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ALombard cemetery datable to the
7th century was brought to light
in San Salvatore di Majano and all the
finds (among which the rich funeral
array of warriors) were taken to the
museums of Udine and Cividale. In San Tomaso,
situated along the busy road leading from
Concordia Sagittaria to the Noricum, in 1199 a
hospice was built with annexed chapel of the
Order of St. John of Jerusalem, the latter
chapel showing traces of 13th-century frescoes
outside and a stylised portrait of St. Christopher
on the right wall. Inside are a fresco of the Virgin of
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Mercy by Nicoḷ da Gemona (1348) and a
Roman altar with reliefs dating to the 1st century
AD used as a holy water spout. Before the
earthquake, the chapel used to contain late
Gothic and Baroque wooden altars painted by
Giuseppe Maria Furnio (1567) and Giulio
Urbanis (1580). In the nearby small church of
S. Giorgio, 14th-century frescoes may be seen.
Susans instead is famous for its historic
impressive castle built in the 16th century in a
style reminiscent of Tuscan medieval castles,
with rectangular plan and
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squared, squat corner
towers, features that are absolutely unusual in
Friuli. The parish church of S. Stefano
contains 18th-century altarpieces, one of which
(with SS. Valentino, Apollonia and Lucia)
carries the signature of the almost unknown
painter Giacomo Iosio. Other interesting artistic
works are found in the neighbourhoods, as a
painting by Eugenio Pini (Jesus the Saviour
and Saints, 1651) in the new church of
Ognissanti at Mels, a lovely cycle of frescoes
by Giulio Urbanis from San Daniele (1592) in
the small church of S. Salvatore, and
finally in the church of S. Maria Assunta at
Comerzo a small but notable painted and
gilded wooden statue of Virgin with Child
(13th-14th centuries).
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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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