| Municipality of Povoletto
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Pop.: 5,271
Area: 38,21 sq. km, 133 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Bellazoia, Grions,
Magredis, Marsure, Primulacco,
Ravosa, Salt, Savorgnano del Torre,
Siacco
Town Hall: Ig. Cicuttini, 1 - 33040 Povoletto
Phone.: 0432.664082 Fax: 0432.664094
www.comune.povoletto.ud.it
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In the rural district
of Magredis the
votive church of S.Pietro, a small
15th-century building with bell
gable, preserves a cycle of frescoes
by Gian Paolo Thanner (1529) in the
presbytery and in the plinth twelve small
panels datable to the 1400s portraying the
twelve months
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characterized by scenes
related to the key moments in Friuli
everyday life: sowing, harvesting and
threshing of wheat, killing of the pig and
other moments. In the parish church of
S. Clemente at Povoletto are a painting
by Michele Almonio on the choir wall
(1594), the high altar altarpiece by Pietro
Antonio Novelli (S. Clemente, 1795)
and a ceiling fresco by Domenico Paghini
(1824), who is also the author of
St. Martin's portrait in the church of
Ravosa. The parish church of
SS. Vito, Modesto and Crescenzia at
Grions del Torre has a wooden high altar
carved and painted by Bartolomeo Ortari di
Caporetto in 1703.
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| CIVIDALE
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Cividāt no je une vile, ma une
ponte di citāt /Cividale is not a
village but a small town, as the
lines of a famous Friulian villotta
rightly sing: Cividale, in fact, since
its foundation by the
Romans, was the
main city in the area and under
the Lombards the capital of
the Duchy of Friuli. Still
today, thanks to its
urban plan, its
monuments, the...go
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