| Municipality of Ronchis
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Pop.: 1,966
Area: 18,42 sq. km, 8 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Fraforeano
Town Hall: C. Italia, 72 - 33050 Ronchis
Phone.: 0431.56014 Fax: 0431.56481
www.comune.ronchis.ud.it
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The dominant
landscape element,
River Tagliamento,
has played a crucial
role in the productive
and settlement choices of the
area: it was, in fact, thanks to
the presence of the river that in
the Middle Ages hospices
were opened for pilgrims, then,
in later times, widespread
reclamation works gave way to
rice-fields and water-meadows,
and finally, the presence of
present-day high-water bed
wood of Fraforeano. In the latter
neighbourhood stands also
the lovely Villa Barbarigo,
De Asarta, Kechler (18th-19th
centuries), a noble, elegant
residence
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whose buildings,
including rustic annexes,
courtyard and a neo-Gothic
family chapel (1901-1924), are
aligned along the main road.
Further south, a small chapel
dedicated to Santa Sabida
(16th-17th centuries) might
be referred to the old hospice
of Cavalieri di San Giovanni
(St. John's Knights). In the
18th-century parish church
(1743-1753) an exquisite
altarpiece of the Veneto
school is visible.
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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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