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Pop.: 3,587
Area: 15,37 sq. km, 23 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Fratta, Versa
Town Hall: Via la Centa, 4 - 34076 Romans d Isonzo
Phone.: 0481.966911 Fax: 0481.909282
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The Roman origin
of the place, as
suggested by its
name, seems to be
substantiated by the
numerous archaeological
findings. Recent excavations,
which also explored a richly
fitted Lombard necropolis,
suggest the place was used
also in early medieval
times. The lovely
Parish Church of S.ta
Maria Annunziata
was rebuilt between
1699 and 1716
preserving some
parts (vestry and bell tower)
of a previous medieval
church. Inside, among the
various works of art, it is
worth mentioning the high
altar, a sumptuous marble
sculpture dated 1719 and the
exquisite Holy Conversation,
a tempera painting attributed
to the Giovanni Martini
school (ca. 1530). The
imposing bell tower with an
onion-shaped cupola, is built
on the tower of the ancient
ring of walls, inside which a
Virgin with Child is walled, a
relief by Antonio Veneziano
(1467). In the town centre,
Villa del Torre is an elegant
18th-century building
characterized by the tall
gabled central body. In the
neighbourhood of Fratta, the
ancient church of S. Stefano
(15th century), whose façade
is preceded by an atrium and
dominated by a particularly
tall bell gable, has in its
interior large fragments of a
15th-century fresco cycle
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(Episodes from the Passion)
executed by an unknown
foreign painter. In the
neighbourhood of Versa, the
Parish Church of
S. Andrea is very old,
though restructured in the
Baroque (polychrome marble
high altar) and modern
ages. The Church of
San Rocco (Madonna
Lauretana), with its
exquisite late-Baroque
stuccoes attributed to
G. Pacassi (1682) and the
rich high altar (1736), is
certainly worth a visit.
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Among the smallest in Italy, Gorizia
province is a unique casket of natural,
historical and cultural beauty, benefiting
from mild climate most
of the year, a place
where, to the
north, the hilly
landscape
of the
Collio area - frequently
terraced and world
renown for its winesopens
to Europe through
the valleys of the Isonzo
and Vipacco Rivers. The
central-eastern part of the
province is of karst...go
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