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Pop.: 2,218
Area: 57,88 sq. km, 525 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Agrons, Cella, Chialina, Clavais,
Cludinico, Entrampo, Lenzone,
Liariis, Luincis, Luint, Mione,
Muina, Ovasta
Town Hall: V. Caduti 2 Maggio, 140 - 33025 Ovaro
Phone.: 0433.67438 Fax: 0433.67636
www.comune.ovaro.ud.it
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Numerous finds
confirm that
the valley of Gorto,
of which Ovaro is
the most important
municipality, had been
inhabited since remotest
times, but the oldest
document mentioning it is
dated to 1119, namely the
foundation of the Abbey of
Moggio to which the Pieve
of Gorto belonged. The
pieve of S. Maria stands on
a rock spur near the
cemetery not far from Cella,
and it is one of the oldest
religious buildings in Friuli
since its origins date from
the 8th century. The presentday
church was built by
master mason Simone di
Mena in 1431 on the site of
a previous building
destroyed by a fire, and it
has been restructured
several times during the
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centuries. Recent restoration works have shown
mutilated, though still
enjoyable, frescoes of the
Wise and the Foolish
Virgins, datable to the
Romanesque period (early
1200s). The church also
contains a wooden set with
St. Martin and the poor, a
1500 ca. sculpture by
Domenico da Tolmezzo
(coming from the nearby
small church of S. Martino)
and an altarpiece with the
Virgin, S. Peter and S. John
dated 1567 and signed by
Giuseppe Furnio, the painter
form San Vito, showing a
lovely view of the Ovaro
valley, a sunny wide valley
in which historical villages
lay. At Mione, Palazzo
Micoli - Toscano was built
in 1836 by
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architect
Giovanni Battista Bassi
from Pordenone in a
splendid panoramic site,
dominating the valley of
Degano: cube-shaped, with
regular rows of windows
and the outstanding green
sloping roof on all four
sides, the palazzo is easily
recognizable from far away.
The close-by small church
contains a wooden altar
with nine statues carved in
1549 by Simone di Paolo, as
well as a pleasant cycle of
naïf frescoes (ca. 1510) by
Pietro Fuluto: the Flight to
Egypt is enchanting, with
the sweet face of the Virgin
and naïf background
landscape. Also the church
of S. Caterina at Luint was
frescoed by Pietro Fuluto
(1519) in the choir with
holy figures and Stories of
S. Caterina, enchanting for
their innocence and popular
storytelling qualities, so
that, for example, in the
scene of the Saint's
martyrdom, the wheel,
which the angel breaks with
its sword, though being the
torture tool becomes the
central element of the
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composition, making all the
other figures and objects
fall into the background.
Pietro Fuluto's trait is
found again in the church
of SS. Vito, Modesto and
Crescenzia at Liariis,
where the apse of the old
church, now a side chapel,
the ribbed vault and - partly
- the walls are decorated
with a cycle of frescoes
datable to 1515. Above the
high altar, a wooden
altarpiece on two levels,
partly carved and partly
painted, by Simone di
Paolo, is framed inside an
elaborate 18th-century
wooden frame attributed to
Eugenio Manzani.
Modest 16th-century
frescoes are found in the
church of Luincis (1552)
attributed to Giuseppe
Furnio, while older frescoes
with scenes from Christ's
Passion datable to the 15th
century are in the church
of Entrampo. Finally, in
the church of Muina, some
paintings with Apostles are
attributed to Nicola Grassi
(early 1700s).
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Covered with woods and meadows,
rich in waterways and small lakes
reflecting the blue sky, surrounded by
harsh mountains and gently rolling
hills, Carnia, yet untouched by mass
tourism, is the ideal place for those
who prefer relaxing
holidays,
invigorating both the body and
the mind not only for its
natural beauties but also
for what man has been...go
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