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Pop.: 1,203
Area: 48,03 sq. km, 184 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Antro, Biacis, Brischis, Calla,
Cicigolis, Cras, Erbezzo, Goregnavas, Lasiz, Loch,
Mersino, Montefosca, Pegliano, Podvarschis, Rodda,
Spagnut, Specognis, Spignon, Stupizza, Tarcetta,
Zapatocco
Town Hall: V. Nazionale, 92 - 33046 Pulfero
Phone.: 0432.726017 Fax: 0432.726033
www.comune.pulfero.ud.it
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The most attractive
neighbourhood in the
municipality is Antro, both for the
peculiarity of its monuments and
history: first of all, the large cave
nearby Antro is on of the most peculiar
places in Friuli apart from being one of the
most fascinating underground phenomena.
This much sheltered place, enjoying a
formidable view over the Natisone Valley,
was inhabited in the remotest times: in front
of it, indeed, a primitive oven excavated in
the rock was found. In the Christian era, the
cave of Antro was used as a sacred place so
much that the small
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church of S. Giovanni
was built by Slovene master mason Andrea
da Skofja Loka partly on the mountain side,
partly inside the cave itself. The small nave
has a ribbed vault in the choir and can be
reached through steep stairs; inside, an
18th-century wooden altar of the Slovenian
school has statues attributable to Giovanni
Martini's studio. Also the votive church of
S. Giacomo at Biacis is artistically
interesting for the eurhythmy of its elements
(the wide portico with "pyramids", the
double-arch small bell gable made of local
stone...) and the perfect harmony it creates with its
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surroundings. Historically, this
church must be mentioned also for the
famous engraved stone it contained (now
moved to town) witnessing the ancient
traditions of the Natisone Valley populations
(but also of the rest of Friuli) in the past,
when family heads met in assembly around a
leafy tree (usually a lime tree) to deal with
the village administrative and justice matters.
The head of the assembly and councillors sat
around a stone table, the only extant one of
which is the one in Biacis.
At Rodda, in the church of
S. Zenone the most ancient
fresco in the Slovenian
cultural area of Friuli is
preserved: the Martyrdom of
St. Lorenzo, datable to the
first half of the 13th century,
surprising for its unusual
images (the saint, held still
with a carving fork by his
executioner, is skewered on a
spit and made to rotate by the
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emperor who had condemned
him) and for the vividness
of colours. The church of
S. Ulderico in Monte has a
polygonal choir with ribbed
vault and keystones and
figured corbels (early 16th
Slovenian school and
contains the statues of
S. Ulderico in the middle,
and Valentina and Elisabetta
to the sides. The church of
S. Leonardo Abate at Osjak
di Rodda has an austere
medieval look on the
outside, though it was built
in the 1500s; inside it has a
wooden altar dated to the
year 1689, painted and
gilded by a modest carver of
the Caporetto school: the
central niche houses the
statue of S. Leonardo and
the two side ones house
SS. Mattia and Zenone.
The church of S. Donato
Martire at Lazis dates from
the 12th century and
contains interesting (though
in a sorry state) fragments
of frescoes in the apse. The
various neighbourhoods still
show examples of typical
architecture, with often very
picturesque buildings; in
particular, the rural district
of Montefosca is made of
a complex of houses and
stables.
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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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