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Pop.: 6,963
Area: 22,91 sq. km, 18 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Ghirano,
Prata di Sopra, Prata di Sotto,
Puja, Villanova, Borgo Passo,
Le Monde, Peressine
Town Hall: Via Roma, 33 - 33080 Prata di Pordenone
Phone.: 0434.425111 Fax: 0434.610457
www.comune.prata.pn.it
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The town of
Prata has
imposing religious
buildings, such as
the Parish Church
of Santa Lucia (where a
fresco of San Carlo
Borromeo between
SS. Antonio Abate and
Floriano by G. Narvesa
-1630- and frescoes of the
ruined Church of Santa
Maria dei Battuti are
preserved) and the Church
of SS. Simone and Giuda,
showing an articulate choir
decoration with Doctors of
the Church with Angels and
symbols of the Evangelists
on the vault, Sante martiri
on the intrados of the
-arcone- and a wide
Crucifixion on the end wall.
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The cycle of frescoes,
originally complemented
with scenes from Christ's
Passion on the presbytery
walls (of which only a few
fragments remain), show the
frail, though graceful traits
of Pietro Gorizio, who must
have painted it at the end of
the 15th or beginning of the
16th century. It is however a
simple shrine at the side of
the road near the above
church that offers the visitor
one of the most beautiful
Renaissance
frescoes in Friuli,
namely the Virgin
with Child by
Gianfrancesco
da Tolmezzo
(1500 ca.) which
concentrates in its
limited space
all the Carnic
painter's confidence,
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combining it with
a poignant
sweetness in the
characters' gaze
that effectively
and tersely
conveys the
spiritual message.
The Church of
San Giovanni
dei Cavalieri
rises on the
outskirts of town,
noteworthy for the stone
sepulchres and tombstones
dating to the 14th century;
particularly interesting is
the tomb of Nicoḷ I from
Villa Morosini-Memmo
(end of 16th century),
today the Town Hall, and
Villa Brunetta
(18th century) are evidence
of the continuity of the
manor house-style
typical of Venetian
architecture.
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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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