| Municipality of Pozzuolo del Friuli
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Pop.: 6,296
Area: 34,28 sq. km, 67 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Cargnacco,
Carpeneto, Sammardenchia,
Terenzano, Zugliano
Town Hall: V. XX Settembre, 31 - 33050 Pozzuolo del Friuli
Phone.: 0432.669016 Fax: 0432.669343
www.comune.pozzuolo.udine.it
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Always a favourite
place for settlements
(as witnessed by the
prehistoric settlements of
Sammardenchia, the
protohistoric 'castellieri' of Cjastiei
and Culine, the Roman necropolis
of Carpeneto), Pozzuolo is renown
for the Genova Light Horse and the
Novara Lancers charges during the
First World War (30 Oct. 1917) and
for the Temple dedicated to the
War Dead and Missing soldiers
during the Russian Campaign, built
in 1955 on a design by Giacomo
Della Mea: an austere building with
a brick façade (reminiscent
of the EUR palace in Rome), it
contains mosaic
decorations
inside (the
Alpine
troops' deeds, war prisoners, etc.) executed
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by the Spilimbergo
Mosaic School (Scuola Mosaicisti) on
Fred Pittino's cartoons, as well as great ceramic
works, decorated glasses and bas-reliefs relating
to the important events of the Russian Campaign.
The church of S. Andrea at Pozzuolo, built by
Andrea Scala (1853), has an 18th-century high
altar by Antonio Gaj with statues by Giuseppe
Torretti (St. Peter) and Paolo Groppelli (St. Paul),
while the parish church of S. Maria Assunta
at Carpeneto has a two-level carved wooden
altar painted and gilded by Domenico da
Tolmezzo (early 16th cent.) coming from the
church of S. Michele in the cemetery where
there still remains a cycle of early 16th-century
popular frescoes in the presbytery.
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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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