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Pop.: 2,596
Area: 69,96 sq. km, 602 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Casteons,
Cleulis, Monte Croce Carnico,
Rivo, Timau
Town Hall: P.P21-22 Luglio, 7 - 33026 Paluzza
Phone.: 0433.775143 Fax: 0433.771763
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This municipality
is rich in artistic
and naturalistic
attractions. First of
all, in the 17thcentury
church of S. Daniele
the frescoes in the presbytery
and nave are worth seeing:
attributed to Angelo Schiavi
(1764), they reflect a certain
influence by Tiepolo, though
of provincial stamp, as well
as the altarpiece with St. John
the Baptist by G.A. Agostini
(1593). Not to be slighted is
the ancient organ created by
don Giacomo Sellenati from
Sutrio in 1760. The church
of S. Maria, restructured in
1924 incorporating the 15thcentury
apse of the ancient
smaller church, shows a cycle
of frescoes executed in 1555
by Giuseppe Furnio, a painter
from San Vito, and the
exquisite wooden altarpiece
of 1508-1510, carved, painted
and gilded by Antonio Tironi,
is one of the most magnificent
in Friuli, with nine excellent
statues in as many niches
(three on each level) marked
by finely decorated, with
leaves, flames and small
pinnacles to the sides
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and on
top. Among the paintings
contained in the church the
one portraying the Virgin of
Carmine must be mentioned,
by Matthäus Zehender
(1661), rich in colour and
enlivened with unusual
details. Two large paintings
by Domenico Straulino
(1985) in the parish church of
Cleulis, develop themes of
great social significance, as
they portray Women bearers
of Carnia and the Leaving
of the Emigrants. A bit
north of Paluzza,
on the
always busy road to Monte
Croce (still today some
Roman inscriptions may be
read on a stone along the
road), dominating the Valley
of But is the medieval Torre
Moscarda, a sturdy
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squared
construction more than ten
metres high. The Tempio
Ossario was instead created
in Timau in 1921, on a design
by Giovanni Greppi, to
receive the remains of the
war dead (decorated with
mosaics by Fred Pittino and
frescoes by Giovanni Pellis).
Not far from the village of
Timau, the so-called
Fontanon, the striking
waterfall at the sources of
Torrent But, runs down the
rock in an environment of
rare natural beauty. Pleasant
excursions may be made to
the forest of Val Collina,
the vallone (gorge) de la
Cjanevate, and the casera
Pramosio, the latter reached
by an easy road through
the thick forest.
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Those who want to understand what
Carnia was like in the past centuries, the
customs of its inhabitants, their ways of
facing the difficulties of life in an often
hostile environment, their religious spirit,
their everyday life, those must not miss
the Museum of Tolmezzo,
where in so many years
of devout dedication
and research
the illustrious ...go
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