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Pop.: 2,683
Area: 18,09 sq. km, 10 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Castello,
Còrgnolo, Pampaluna
Town Hall: V. Udine, 18 - 33050 Porpetto
Phone.: 0431.60036 Fax: 0431.60901
www.comune.porpetto.ud.it
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The castle to
which the name
of the Castello
neighbourhood
refers to was
situated on a river islet
together with the annexed
church of San Giacomo:
built in the 9th century, it
was destroyed by Venetian
troops in 1617. This, and the
neighbourhood of
Pampaluna (from the
Spanish city of Pamplona
along the Camino de
Santiago), are probably the
traces of ancient pilgrimage
paths. The building of the
castle was due to the noble
Frangipane family, as well
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of a Palace and a
mansion known as
"La quiete" (17th-18th
centuries). In the village
centre stands the Church
of S. Vincenzo (18th cent.)
containing an 18th-century
marble altar and other
16th-and 18th-century works.
Remarkable is the rural
environment. At Castello
and Corgnolo are ancient
mills and buildings, among
which Casa Rovere,
probably the seat of the
Venetian customs. Porpetto
is also characterized by the
presence of humid grassland
("Fraghis and Rocjon" are
sites of European
importance) and of a wood
of the plains called
"Sgobitta".
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The name "Bassa"
identifies the Friuli plains
extending towards the Adriatic,
beginning more or less from the so-called
Stradalta (just a bit south
of the present-day
Strada
Napoleonica),
namely below the line of
resurgences from which
rivers or streams or
simply natural springs
often originate,
contributing to shaping the...go
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