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Pop.: 1,508
Area: 26,96 sq. km, 5 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Titiano
Town Hall: V. Roma, 22 - 33050 Precenicco
Phone.: 0431.58038 Fax: 0431.589295
www.comune.precenicco.ud.it
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The enviable position of the territory,
crossed by River Stella and situated
between the resurgences and the Marano
lagoon, so rich from the naturalistic
point of view, favoured the establishment
of a famous medieval "Commenda" (since 1232)
ruled by the Teutonic Knights of Jerusalem who
managed the river port traffic. Here the Germanspeaking
pilgrims took sail towards the Holy
Land, together with knights, merchants, and
confraternity members.
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Three coats-of-arms of
such "commendatori" are walled in the so-called
"Canevon", an imposing 18th-century warehouse
erected by Count Cassis Faraone on the remains
of the ancient hospice and a 13th-century castle.
A fortified building used to be on the Stella
riverbank, in the area of Villa Hierschel
(19th cent.), in which a very peculiar garden was
created on a design by Jappelli. At Titiano, the
second port of call on the river mouth, the
picturesque church of S. Maria della Neve
was mentioned since the 12th century and
contains Renaissance fresco fragments, while
the parish church di S. Martino boasts,
among other works, the remarkable high altar
made of polychrome marble (1623).
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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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