| Municipality of Marano Lagunare
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Pop.: 2,048
Area: 90,57 sq. km, 2 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods:
Town Hall: P. Olivotto - 33050 Marano Lagunare
Phone.: 0431.67049 Fax: 0431.67930
www.comune.maranolagunare.ud.it
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Those arriving
at Marano will
certainly be
surprised to find a
Venetian more
than Friulian landscape,
reminiscent of towns like
Caorle and Chioggia:
actually, Marano was under
the Serenissima from
1420 to 1797, a rule that
left deep historical, artistic
and anthropological traces.
Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II,
the main square, is
surrounded by the
15th-century Loggia and
Palazzo dei Provveditori
(superintendents' palace),
but the symbol of the town
is the
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Patriarchal Tower
(with 15th-century body
and 20th-century belfry),
characterized by a series
of sumptuous portraits and
epigraphs of Venetian
17th-century
"provveditori"; other
portraits are walled on
other buildings. The parish
church is dedicated to
S. Martino (a sculpture of
the Saint and the poor is
set in the gable), although
the most loved saint in
town is St. Vito, to whose
devotion (and to the
devotion of SS. Modesto
and Crescenzo) is
dedicated the traditional
procession at sea. In the
church (18th cent.) several
works of art are found,
among which the imposing
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18th-century high altar with
a painting of Enthroned
Virgin with St. Martin and
St. Vito (16th cent.) and
three altarpieces probably
attributable to Antonio
Martinetti called
Chiozzotto (1719-1790).
The small church of Beata
Vergine (1905-1908)
contains a much
worshipped wooden image
of the Madonna della
Salute (17th cent.) and
other ex-voto. Hopefully,
what has been said until
now has managed to render
the artistic dimension of a
town boasting an
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important
Roman (there is an
antiquarium in the "Centro
Civico") and medieval past,
but it is important to
underline that the
present-day town is fully
projected into a future
made of environmentoriented
tourism, though
not forgetting the fishing
activity, centred on the
protection of the lagoon
ecosystem also thanks to
the creation of the Natural
Reserve of the River
Stella mouth
(1377 hectares) and the
"Valle Canal Novo"
(121 hectares) with a
Visitors' Centre. The
picturesque "casoni", the
large huts made of reeds
and mud supported by
wood pilasters used as
houses and storerooms for
fishing tools, never fail to
fascinate.
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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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