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Pop.: 2,817
Area: 33,82 sq. km, 207 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Cergneu, Chialminis,
Monteprato, Ramandolo, Torlano,
Vallemontana
Town Hall: P. XXIX Settembre, 1 - 33045 Nimis
Phone.: 0432.790045 Fax: 0432.790173
www.comune.nimis.ud.it
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Nimis has its origins
in Roman times: it
was the Castrum
Nemas mentioned by
Paolo Diacono,
situated on the route connecting
Cividale to the consular direct
road from Aquileia to the
Noricum. The Pieve of
SS. Gervasio and Protasio,
one of the oldest religious
buildings in Friuli, dating to
the mid-6th century, underwent
several changes until it achieved
its present-day structure in the
11th-12th centuries, that is nave
and aisles divided by a strong pilaster
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supporting two
large full arches ending
in two semi-circular apses;
a large round window was
opened in the remodelled
façade. Inside, apart from
remains of the previous
buildings, 12th-century
frescoes in the triumphal
arch and in the pilaster
pendentives can be seen.
Other frescoes are attributed to
Titta Gori, who worked in the
church on several occasions
between 1897 and 1914,
decorating it with characters
from the Old and New
Testaments, prophets and
figures of Saints. In the parish
church of S. Cuore there is
contained the large 17th-century
marble altar created by
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sculptor Enrico Merengo for
the church of S. Silvestro in
Venice that was then purchased
in 1839 by the church of
S. Stefano in Centa at Nimis
and - after the latter was
destroyed in 1976- was moved
to the parish church, where
are also displayed fragments
of frescoes by Gian Paolo
Thanner (1534), removed from
the Sanctuary of Madonna
delle Pianelle and arrayed on
panels. The Sanctuary, in turn,
houses the much worshipped
15th-century stone statue of
Virgin with Child. The small
church of S. Giovanni
Battista at Ramandolo
contains a wooden altarpiece
of two levels and six statues
by Vincenzo di Bartolomeo
from S. Vito (1516).
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The pleasant hilly area of Friuli, the
strip of land running from Gemona to
San Daniele almost to reach the suburbs
of Udine, has always been, through the
centuries, subject to earthquakes: suffice
it to mention the appalling
earthquakes of 1348
(also mentioned by
the Florentine historian
Filippo Villani), of
1511 (that halfdestroyed
Udine...go
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