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Pop.: 4,724
Area: 20,18 sq. km, 160 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Cortale, Qualso, Remugnano,
Ribis, Rizzolo, Valle, Vergnacco, Zompitta
Town Hall: V. del Municipio, 18 - 33010 Reana del Rojale
Phone.: 0432.857121 Fax: 0432.85737
www.comune-reana-del-rojale-ud.org
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Lake-dwellings dating probably to
9000 years before the Christian
era were found in the Grandens basin
near Qualso, and Roman coins were
found at Vergnacco: this means that
the territory has always been inhabited, also
thanks to the fact that it was crossed by Via
Bariglaria connecting Aquileia to Tricesimo
and Kärnten, and by the various ditches
derived from Torrent Torre during the
Patriarchal Age. The oldest building seems to
be the church of in
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SS. Felice and Fortunato
Reana, as the date 1341 and the name of its
builder (master mason Nicolò) are walled on
the façade and inside the church is a cycle of
frescoes dated 1481 in the old choir. In the
parish church of S. Maria Assunta at Qualso
(outside the church an inscription of 1511
commemorates the earthquake destroying the
building in that year), frescoes by G.P. Thanner
(16th cent.) and Carlo Boldi (ca. 1800) and an
altarpiece by G.B. Tosolini (end of 18th cent.)
are remarkable.
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The pleasant hilly area of Friuli, the
strip of land running from Gemona to
San Daniele almost to reach the suburbs
of Udine, has always been, through the
centuries, subject to earthquakes: suffice
it to mention the appalling
earthquakes of 1348
(also mentioned by
the Florentine historian
Filippo Villani), of
1511 (that halfdestroyed
Udine...go
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