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Pop.: 1,768
Area: 99,21 sq. km, 568 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Aupa, Costa,
Piani, Pietratagliata, Pramollo,
San Leopoldo, Studena Alta,
Studena Bassa
Town Hall: Piazza Garibaldi, 1 - 33016 Pontebba
Phone.: 0428.90162 Fax: 0428.91133
www.comune.pontebba.ud.it
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Already inhabited
in Roman times
(a figured stone
dating from the 2nd
century AD carrying
the names of local husband
and wife is exhibited in the
Museum of Udine), Pontebba
acquired greater importance in
1342, when Patriarch Bertrand
created here a public market
place. The town was for
centuries a border town
between the Republic of
Venice and the Empire at first,
then between Italy and Austria
from 1866 to 1918, but its
hardest period was the
Napoleonic one. The greatest
monument in town is the
parish church of S. Maria
Maggiore, built in 1504 but
remodelled in neo-Gothic style
at the end of the 1800s by
Girolamo D'Aronco. In the
choir, a large, spectacular and
richly decorated wooden
Flügelaltar (altar with panels)
of the Villach school dated
1571 makes a fine show. The
outside panels portray the
Annunciation, the Visit to
Elizabeth, the Flight to Egypt
and Pentecost; when the door
panels are open, the bas-relief
scenes of Nativity, Adoration,
Resurrection and Transition
of the Virgin are visible.
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In the
middle of the altar is the
Coronation of the Virgin,
while figures of Saints are in
the predella. Other statues
decorate the tall crowning with
spires and pinnacles. Among
other works of art, an
altarpiece with S. Rocco and
S. Sebastian by Palma the
Younger (1616) is remarkable.
The Palazzo Municipale
(Town Hall), with
Teatro Italia (1920) to the
side, is a particularly imposing
building, built in 1923 on a
design by Provino Valle:
the complex façade is
characterized by wide arches
on the ground floor and by the
triple lancet window on the
first floor. However, one of
the oldest buildings in town is
the house of Gaspero Rizzi
(1606), with arches on
three floors. Typical
in its Carinthian
outlook is the
district of
Pontafel.
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The land that from Moggio leads to
Tarvisio following the valley of River
Fella and its tributaries and the
valley of Torrent Gailitz whose
waters, after flowing through
Tarvisio, flow into the
River Gail and
finally into the
Black Sea,
is a land boasting
centuries of history,
culture and art, a
land already well...go
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