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Pop.: 26,395
Area: 20,52 sq. km, 7 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Archi, Aris, Crosera,
Lisert, Marina Julia, Marina
Vecchia, Panzano, Pietrarossa,
Rocca, San Polo, Schiavetti
Town Hall: P.za della Repubblica, 8 - 34074 Monfalcone
Phone.: 0481.4941 Fax: 0481.45889
www.comune.monfalcone.go.it
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The capital town of
the Bisiacheria, in
the lower River
Isonzo area,
Monfalcone is the
most important industrial
centre in Gorizia province,
also internationally renown
thanks to the great shipyards
that have produced many
prestigious ships of the Italian
mercantile and military fleet.
Opened in 1907, the
shipyards are state-of-the-art
in the field, receive
construction job
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orders from
the major international
shipping companies, having
specialized, in recent years, in
the construction of exclusive
cruiser liners. Though its
origins go back to the remote
past, owing to the destruction
caused by the two World
Wars the city is today almost
completely modern in style.
On the top of the
overlooking hill (Mt.
Falcone, hence its name),
formerly occupied by a
protohistoric castelliere, the
Rocca dominates the city, a
mighty circular building with
a square keep in
the middle.
Restructured
several times,
the building
dates back to the
Middle Ages,
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although it
seems to have had an
important defensive role also
in Roman times, when the
territory was a crucial
trading centre as witnessed by the
archaeological findings in
the Lisert plain in the eastern
suburbs (Roman Baths).
Today the Rocca houses the
Speleological and
Paleontological Museum.
In the city, the imposing
Duomo (S. Ambrogio), built
on a basilica plan, is a cold
neo-Romanesque building
(1929). The Church of
S. Nicoḷ, in the Aris district,
has a wooden altar by an
unknown late 16th-century
Friulian carver. The Church
of S. Polo is a 16th-century
building, whose bell tower is
said to have been built with
the stones of a nearby
Roman bridge, while the
Sanctuary of Marcelliana,
on the road to Grado
, has
very remote origins, though
it was completely rebuilt in
the 18th century: a much
venerated 13th-century
stone statue of the Virgin
is kept here.
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| PROVINCE OF GORIZIA
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Among the smallest in Italy, Gorizia
province is a unique casket of natural,
historical and cultural beauty, benefiting
from mild climate most
of the year, a place
where, to the
north, the hilly
landscape
of the
Collio area - frequently
terraced and world
renown for its winesopens
to Europe through
the valleys of the Isonzo
and Vipacco Rivers. The
central-eastern part of the
province is of karst...go
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