| Municipality of San Canzian d Isonzo
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Pop.: 5,808
Area: 33,58 sq. km, 8 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Begliano, Isola Morosini, Pieris,
Terranova
Town Hall: Largo Garibaldi, 37 (a Pieris) - 34075 San Canzian d Isonzo
Phone.: 0481.472811 Fax: 0481.472334
www.comune.sancanziandisonzo.go.it
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Crossed by the
Via Gemina,
the territory was part
of the Aquileia
countryside. Several
archaeological findings witness
the existence of a thriving
Roman village (vicus).
The name of the municipally
(previously called Aquae
Gradatae) derives from the
Canziani (Canzio, Canziano
and Canzianilla), the brothers
and sister whowere martyrized
during Diocletian's empire,
whose cult was already widespread
in the early Christian
age. Mosaic remains of a large,
rectangular Early Christian
Basilica, built between the
4th and 6th centuries on a
cemetery (identified during the
excavations), can be seen near
the Parish Church dedicated
to the three martyrs. Inside the
church are quite good paintings
of Sts. Canziani, dated 1580,
probably byG. Secante. Roman
epigraphs are walled outside
the church, and some
sarcophagi are displayed in
the surrounding meadow. The
adjoining Antiquarium hosts
Roman and Early-Christian
findings: sculptures, mosaic
fragments from the Basilica,
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inscriptions (the votive graffiti
and the 4th-century illustrated
Rosula's slab are remarkable).
The sarcophagi of the Aquileia
martyrs Proto and Crisogono
are kept in the small church of
S. Proto (14th century)- built on
the site of a 4th-century martyr
memorial hall, with polychrome
mosaic Remarkable is also
the small, circular church
of S. Spirito (13th century),
the former baptistery. At
Begliano, the Parish Church
of S. Maria Maddalena,
rebuilt in neoclassical style
in the 18th century, displays a
painting of St. Joseph's Happy
Death by Furlanetto.
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