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Pop.: 7,312
Area: 25,90 sq. km, 7 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Chiarisacco, Lanais, Località Galli, Porto Nogaro,
Villanova, Zellina
Town Hall: P.zza Umberto I, 1 - 33058 San Giorgio di Nogaro
Phone.: 0431.620101 Fax: 0431.621213
www.comune.sangiorgiodinogaro.ud.it
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Rich in protohistoric (castelliere,
a Gaulish settlement area) and
Roman (finds of rustic villas,
mutatio ad Undecimum along the
Via Annia) traces, San Giorgio di
Nogaro was a thriving centre in the Middle
Ages and later thanks to its connections
with Venice, which used the berthing of
Porto Nogaro on River Corno to supply its
Arsenal with wood. Of that thriving period
a lovely manor house remains: Villa Dora
(17th cent.), today a cultural centre.
Excavations under
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the central 18th-century
church of San Giorgio (also called
Chiesa Vecchia or della Madonna
Addolorata), have recently brought to light
the remains of the outside walls and mosaic
floor of an early-Christian Basilica
(4th cent.), built with early Medieval
influences probably linked to the arrival of
Lombards (568). On the façade above the
portal, St. George and the dragon are
portrayed; inside are notable paintings of
the Venetian school, in particular two
large draperies, one with the Miracle of
a woman in labour near the seaside by
Alessandro
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Varotari called
Il Padovanino (1620), measuring
4,90 m x 6,36 m, the other with Venice on
the throne and Justice driving away vices
by Pietro Malombra (1612), coming from
Palazzo Ducale; here is also the painting of
Bernardo and Sancha of Spain (17th cent.)
by Pietro Muttoni called il Vecchia.
Affected though modest is the altarpiece
of the town's patron Saint with St. George
and the dragon by local painter
Valentino Marani (19th cent.).
The early 20th-century Town Hall is
situated on the town's thoroughfare and
built in classicising, often eclectic style.
In front of the Town Hall, the fountain by
Aurelio Mistruzzi (1990s) is the War
Memorial. At Porto Nogaro, the church
of S. Leonardo (restructured in the
15th and 20th centuries) is datable, in its
most ancient phase, to the year 1000.
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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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