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Pop.: 4,638
Area: 67,85 sq. km, 317 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Grizzo, Malnisio, San Leonardo
Town Hall: Via M. Ciotti, 122 - 33086 Montereale Valcellina
Phone.: 0427.798782 Fax: 0427.799373
www.comune.monterealevalcellina.pn.it
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Montereale is a
complex
reality, the last
outpost of the plain
huddled on the
ravines of Valcellina: an
interesting archaeological
site (with the protohistoric
necropolis of the Dominu),
in the last decades it has
become, its decentralised
location notwithstanding, a
dynamic cultural centre,
owing mainly to the
initiatives of Circolo
Culturale Menocchio.
Among the many churches
in the territory, the rural
church (pieve) of
San Rocco is a must, with
its choir frescoes by
G.M. Zaffoni, called
Calderari (1560), one of the
most articulated and
meditated
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reappraisals of
Pordenone's style.
Noteworthy paintings are
also preserved in the
oratory of Beata Vergine
delle Grazie (Enthroned
Virgin with Child, Saints
and donor by G. Stefanelli,
mid-16th cent.) and in the
oratory of San Floriano,
where the early 17th-century
painting spreads onto the
walls with devotional
images culminating in the
central painting by
G. Narvesa (Virgin with
Child in Triumph among
Saints). At San Leonardo,
two more altarpieces by
Narvesa dominate the nave
in the parish church, putting
forward with their holy
characters the contrasting
chromatic and
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compositional choices
typical of the artist's
personal approach to
Mannerism. At Malnisio the
series of works by the artist
from Pordenone includes
San Nicoḷ in Triumph and
SS. Valentine, Daniel,
Floriano, Bernardino da
Siena in the church of
San Giovanni Battista.
Finally, at Grizzo, the
church of San Bartolomeo
has a 16th-century spout
whose basin is supported
from below by a plump
putto-telamon.
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The territory ranges from the
pleasant plains at the foot of the
mountains in the Aviano area
(where the silent jewel of Castel
d'Aviano stands out) to the doublefaced
high mountains, showing the
modern tourist
mountain resorts on the one hand
(of which Piancavallo, with its
ski slopes, cross-country
trails and aspirations to
become a little...go
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