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Pop.: 4,889
Area: 29,99 sq. km, 41 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Chiasiellis,
Lavariano
Town Hall: P. Verdi, 32 - 33050 Mortegliano
Phone.: 0432.762000 Fax: 0432.761778
www.comune.mortegliano.ud.it
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The reinforced
concrete bell
tower adjoining the
duomo has
undoubtedly
become the symbol of
Mortegliano since its
building between 1955 and
1959: perfectly visible from
afar with its 113 metres of
height, it is one of the most
striking works by architect
Pietro Zanini. The duomo of
SS. Peter and Paul was
built in Neo-Gothis style
since 1864 by architect
Andrea Scala and it contains
a spectacular wooden
altar, gilded and
painted, executed by
the painter and carver
Giovanni Martini, a
native to Udine, who
completed it in
1526 and was paid
the enormous (for
the times) amount
of 1180
ducats. With its about sixty statues (among
which the Pietà and Transition of the Virgin
sets), and more than 5 metres of height (it is
the largest in Friuli), the altar must be
regarded not only as the artist's masterpiece
(who however was
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helped here by his
disciples) but also as the highest expression
of Renaissance wooden sculpture. The nearby
church of SS. Trinità shows early 18thcentury
frescoes by Pietro Venier on the vault
and Rosary Altar to the side (17th cent.) with
lovely bas-reliefs, and Gian Pietro Fubiaro's
altarpiece (Coronation of the Virgin, 1643)
and Pietro Bainville's Happy Death of
St. Joseph (1729). The 1527 stone altar in the
church of S. Paolo at Lavariano (18th cent.) is
instead Carlo da Carona's masterpiece thanks
to the medieval spirituality pervading it, the
suggestive chiaroscuro interplay and the high
plasticity of the statues. In the church
of S. Maria Annunziata at Chiasiellis the
lacquered statues of the Annunciation by
Francesco Catone are preserved (1868).
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It is not certain that the name Udine is of
pre-Roman origin, as researchers support,
deriving from a word meaning 'mamma'
and then metaphorically 'hill'. The fact is,
however, that from the hill in the middle
of the city (which according to a
legend was formed with the earth
carried in Attila's soldiers'
helmets since the king, after
having sacked Aquileia, wanted to see
it on fire) it is possible to sweep in
one look the whole of Friuli, from...go
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