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Pop.: 13,598
Area: 29,49 sq. km, 29 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Palse, Pieve, Rondover,
Roraipiccolo, Sant'Antonio, Spinazzedo, Talponedo
Town Hall: Via dei Pellegrini - 33080 Porcia
Phone.: 0434.596911 Fax: 0434.921610
www.comune.porcia.pn.it
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The Duomo of San Giorgio,
restructured in Neo-Gothic style in
the mid-1800s, shows its Renaissance
origins in the squared tower (1488),
decorated by high blind arches and
provided with a wide ramp accessing the belfry,
and in some works such as the frescoes by
Giovan Battista da Vicenza (early 16th cent.)
in the right apsidiole, the frescoes with Santa
Lucia between St. Antonio and St. Apollonia by
Francesco da Milano (1518 ca.) in the right aisle,
complemented by the Annunciation in the
cymatium and by a landscape with two putti and
the Carli family coat-of-arms in the predella.
Noteworthy are also the carved wooden choir
(1631), the Virgin with Child in Triumph and
Saints by Palma the younger (1622) and the
organ shutters painted by I. Fischer (17th cent.).
Not far from the duomo, more works by the
same Austrian painter decorate the Church of
Santa Maria
Assunta, which
also boasts a
sculpture of
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Enthroned Virgin with Child (first half of the 15th
century) attributed to a sculptor of the Tuscan
school, frescoes by G. Stefanelli (God Almighty
and Prophets, 1555-60), an Altarpiece of the
Virgin by Andrea Vicentino (end of 16th cent.)
and finally on the wooden Crucifix painted on the
choir lintel (mid-15th cent). The small church, the
adjoining and airy medieval loggia and the whole
historical centre of Porcia are dominated by the
massive castle of the Counts of Porcia and
Brugnera (whose building started in the 11th
century); inside stand out fragments of 14th
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century
frescoes and wall decorations by G.B.
Bison (Scenes with architectures, landscapes
and mythological-allegorical representations,
1822-1833 ca.). At Palse, more than the lovely
oratory of San Giuseppe (with spout by A.
Pavanello -16th cent.- and stone relief of the
Shepherds' Adoration -1698-), the ancient rural
parish church of San Vigilio attracts the
visitor's attention, with its 13th-century frescoes
(Last Supper and Saints). At Roraipiccolo the
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exquisite small church of Sant'Agnese has
late 13th-century frescoes (Flagellation, Christ
on the cross between the Virgin and St. John,
Virgin with Child among two Martyr Saints,
Saints and Patriarchs on the left wall), as well
as mid-14th-century frescoes (Christ in
Triumph, symbols of the Evangelists and
Saints, Sant'Agnese on the ceiling and apse
arch) and Renaissance frescoes: a Virgin with
Child and two Saints (early 15th cent.) on the
end wall and a Virgin with Child among
SS. Sebastiano and Rocco and the donor (1529)
attributed to G. Stefanelli, on the controfacciata.
Even the altarpiece is a fresco: Virgin with
Child between SS. Agnese and Caterina and
God Almighty, attributed to Amalteo (first half
of the 16th cent.) At Roraipiccolo also the
17th-century villa Correr-Dolfin is located, in
which the main building, decorated with early
18th-century frescoes, is complemented with a
-barchessa- and large park. Porcia also has
notable examples of contemporary architecture,
in particular the head offices of Zanussi
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(1959-61), by Gino Valle, along the
Pontebbana State road, whose structure
achieves an effective combination of glass and
reinforced concrete.
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The landscape surrounding
Pordenone is lively and varied,
changing from the ups and downs of
the Pedemontana hills and the green
area of Polcenigo to the expanse
of cultivated and clay-coloured fields
of the southern area.
The geographic, historical
and cultural
development of
the whole territory
has
been
marked by go
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