| Municipality of Malborghetto Valbruna
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Pop.: 1,035
Area: 119,89 sq. km, 721 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Bagni di Lusnizza, Malborghetto,
Santa Caterina, Ugovizza, Valbruna
Town Hall: Via Municipio, 1 - 33010 Malborghetto Valbruna
Phone.: 0428.60023 Fax: 0428.60318
www.malborghetto-valbruna.com
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The original name of the place (in
the year 1200) was Bonborghetto,
the popular corruption of
Bombergetum named after the
foundation of the local church by the
Bishop of Bamberg; the name place was then
changed to Malborghetto after the destruction
by Venetian soldiers against whom
inhabitants had rebelled (1368). The town fell
under Venetian rule following the Gradisca
Wars in 1616; back under Imperial rule in
1759, it was the background for a harsh battle
between Napoleon's and Imperial troops in
1809. Just
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off the town, the monument to
Federico Hensel (a marble pyramid with a
squatting lion erected in 1847) celebrates the
captain's heroic actions who for three days
defended the fort of Malborghetto from
Napoleon's army in 1809. The most
prestigious building in town is the 17thcentury
Palazzo Veneziano, with its notable
rusticated portal over which an elegant triple
lancet window opens and with an airy open
gallery on the back, now housing the
Ethnographic Museum. The parish church
of Santa Maria has late-Gothic frescoes and
lovely figured plaques (16th-17th centuries)
by Austrian stone cutters. In the church
of S. Gottardo at Bagni di Lusnizza,
exquisite Baroque wooden altars are
worthwhile, while the church of SS. Filippo
and Giacomo in Ugovizza - recently
deprived of its bell tower by a terrible flood -
has works of art of Slav, German and Italian
origins, to witness the past history of both the
town and its territory.
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The land that from Moggio leads to
Tarvisio following the valley of River
Fella and its tributaries and the
valley of Torrent Gailitz whose
waters, after flowing through
Tarvisio, flow into the
River Gail and
finally into the
Black Sea,
is a land boasting
centuries of history,
culture and art, a
land already well...go
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