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Pop.: 2,170
Area: 17,80 sq. km, 263 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Alnicco, Brazzacco,
Santa Margherita del Gruagno
Town Hall: V. Centa, 11 - 33030 Moruzzo
Phone.: 0432.672004 Fax: 0432.672724
www.comune.moruzzo.ud.it
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The enchantment
of the area is the
reason why so many
villas were built
here: Villa Manin
Antonini at Moruzzo, Villa
del Torso Amodio, Villa
Savorgnan di Brazzà and
Villa Pirzio Biroli Brazzà
at Brazzacco; Villa Ottelio
Taccoli at Modotto; Villa
Perabò Della Savia at
Tampagnacco. The only
surviving castle of the many
which existed here is the
castle of Moruzzo (which,
however, has undergone so
much remodelling that it has
partly lost its
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original
character), mentioned in
documents since the 12th
century. There are left only
traces, instead, of the two
castles of Brazzacco.
S. Margherita del Gruagno
preserves a charming
medieval district, mentioned
at first in 762 and then in
Ottone's diploma of 983.
In the middle of the district
the Romanesque Pieve of
S. Margherita stands out,
with its nave and aisles
divided by strong pilasters,
and 11th-century hexagonal
crypt. The ancient spout
probably dates from the
11th century and a stone
Blessing Christ is dated
13th century, while the
polychrome marble high
altar is Baroque in style
(Giovanni Pacassi,
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1660-67)
and the powerful baptismal
font is dated 1546
(Benedetto degli Astori).
The parish church of
S. Tommaso at Moruzzo,
built between 1644 and 1647
on the site of an older
12th-century building, has a
lovely high altar by
Giovanni de Gratij (1676),
complemented with
St. Thomas's Incredulity by
Udine's painter Innocenzo
Brugno (ca. 1610) and two
good wooden statues by
Battista Martini (St. Antonio
Abate and St. James, 1543).
Adjoining the rural church
is a soaring bell tower with
an angel-shaped weather
vane on top.
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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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