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Pop.: 5,450
Area: 34,58 sq. km, 59 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Chiasottis, Cortello,
Lauzacco, Lumignacco, Moretto,
Percoto, Persereano, Popereacco,
Risano, Ronchi, Selvuzzis
Town Hall: P. Julia, 1 - 33050 Pavia di Udine
Phone.: 0432.675153 Fax: 0432.675813
www.comune.paviadiudine.ud.it
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This municipality
includes some of
the most beautiful
villas in Friuli, built
between the 17th and
18th centuries by noble
families. At Pavia are Villa
Lovaria, Villa Mantica
Frangipane, Villa de Pace,
Villa Porcia; at Cortello,
Villa Caiselli boasting a
splendid cycle of frescoes by
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Giambattista Canal; at
Lauzacco Villa Beretta; at
Percoto, Villa Frattina
Caiselli; at Persereano Villa
Florio, rich in works of art
and mementoes; at Risano,
Villa Agricola Pighin; and
finally at Ronchi di
Popereacco, Villa Kechler.
As for religious buildings, the
parish church of S. Ulderico
at Pavia is worth mentioning,
with its altarpiece by Odorico
Politi, frescoes by Sebastiano
Santi (sec. XIX) and
16th-century polyptich by
Giovanni Floreani.
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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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