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Pop.: 2,156
Area: 23,98 sq. km, 175 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Altovizza, Azzida, Biarzo, Becis,
Cedron, Clenia, Cocevaro, Correda, Costa, Mezzana,
Oculis, Ponteacco, Puoie, Sorzento, Sottovernassino,
Tarpezzo, Tiglio, Vernassino, Vernasso
Town Hall: Via Alpe Adria, 56 - 33049 San Pietro al Natisone
Phone.: 0432.727272 Fax: 0432.717840
www.comune.sanpietroalnatisone.ud.it
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Important archaeological
finds in the municipality of
S. Pietro are the evidence of the
oldest human settlements:
several stone tools at Biarzo, in
the prehistoric shelter, used in the
Palaeolithic and Neolithic as well; stone
tools and pottery of the 2nd millennium BC
in the castelliere of S. Quirino, while a
castelliere and medieval fortifications were
brought to light
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on Monte Barda. On the
contrary, at S. Pietro al Natisone the
students' residence is a state-of-the-art
building designed by architects Mittchell
and Giurgola inaugurated in 1982.
The large 20th-century parish church
contains a shrine (1500s) by Giovanni
Antonio Pilacorte decorated with putti's
heads and surmounted by the Pietà, set on a
pedestal with scenes of St. George fighting
the Dragon by a Slovene master of the
15th century. The church of S. Antonio at
Clenia, on whose side walls 14th- and 15thcentury
frescoes are still visible, contains a
late 17th-century wooden altar
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richly
carved, painted and gilded by Bartolomeo
Ortari (Jernej Vrtav), a sculptor from
Caporetto. Also in the church of S.
Bartolomeo at Vernasso the wooden altar
by the sumptuous decorations is the
work of Bartolomeo Ortari (1689) and is
made even richer by six statues in niches.
The Gothic-style choir in the same church
is punctuated by evident ribs with figured
corbels and keystones, highlighting a
frescoed series of Apostles and Virgin
Saints attributable to Bartolomeo from
Skofja Loka. At Sorzento, a rural district
completely restructured after the 1976
earthquake, the church of S. Nicolò
contains an altarpiece by a Friulian master
dated 1742 and portraying the
Virgin with Child and SS. Nicolò, Biagio
and Margherita.
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Cividât no je une vile, ma une
ponte di citât /Cividale is not a
village but a small town, as the
lines of a famous Friulian villotta
rightly sing: Cividale, in fact, since
its foundation by the
Romans, was the
main city in the area and under
the Lombards the capital of
the Duchy of Friuli. Still
today, thanks to its
urban plan, its
monuments, the...go
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