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Pop.: 899
Area: 33,24 sq. km, 105 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Albana, Bodigoi, Bordon,
Castelmonte, Cialla, Chiazzacco, Cladrecis, Craoretto,
Mezzomonte, Molino Vecchio, Novacuzzo, Oborza,
Podresca, Prepotischis
Town Hall: V. 24 Maggio, 19 - 33040 Prepotto
Phone.: 0432.713003 Fax: 0432.713246
www.comune.prepotto.ud.it
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Prepotto has particularly graceful
examples of rural architecture as
well as a rural village "a centa" (which
in the Friulian dialect means "enclosed
land"), with a compact nucleus of
houses around the church of SS. Pietro and
Paolo (15th cent.) with ribbed vault and lovely
vault corbels, an elegant small wooden altar
on two levels with figures of the Virgin with
Child and of SS. Peter, Sebastian, Antonio
Abate, Anne, and Joachim (17th-century Slovene school)
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painted by Girolamo Ridolfi
(1585) and Francesco Colussi (1777). In the
nearby church of Spirito Santo at Albana
frescoes by Bartolomeo da Skofja Loka (16th
cent.) are found, while in that of S. Pietro
Apostolo at Chiazzacco figures of Saints and a
particular iconographic scene in which Cain
and Abel appear in the Annunciation were
frescoed by a popular Slovene painter of the
late 15th century. In the church of Tre Re at
Prepotischis a 16th-century painting with the
Adoration of the Magi of Pomponio Amalteo’s
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school is remarkable. The Sanctuary of
Madonna di Castelmonte, standing on top of
a hill at 618 metres of height, is the best
known in Friuli, with a charming fortified
district of great urban planning interest. Its
origins seem to go back to the dawn of
Christianity, even though the earliest
documents set it around the year 1000.
Probably simply a sacellum in the beginning,
and later enlarged, the sanctuary was
destroyed by a terrible fire in 1469 and then
by the earthquake of 1511: later on enlarged
and embellished, it has not undergone great
modifications since. There the much
worshipped stone image of Virgin with Child,
the work of a Slovene sculptor prior to 1479
(the year in which it was blessed and
enthroned), is preserved and framed in the
Baroque altar commissioned in 1684 to
Alessandro Tremignon. A remarkable ex-voto
collection is visible in the
Sanctuary, among which the
silver ex-voto of the town of
Gemona
of 1575 is
outstanding.
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Cividât no je une vile, ma une
ponte di citât /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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