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Pop.: 1,617
Area: 8,53 sq. km, 135 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Ruscletto, Silvella
Town Hall: Via Nuova, 100 - 33030 San Vito di Fagagna
Phone.: 0432.808181 Fax: 0432.808215
www.comune.sanvitodifagagna.ud.it
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The built-up area of S. Vito di
Fagagna is early medieval in
origin: around 1950 about twenty
tombs of a Lombard necropolis were
brought to light, and the funereal
arrays were taken to the museum in Udine. A
niche on the right of the nave in the parish
church of SS. Vito, Modesto and Crescenzia
houses now a Roman sarcophagus which was
re-used in the early Middle Ages and
embellished with a large cross with carved
decorations: it was found in 1962 during the
excavations in one of the rooms attached to
the south side of the church. The same
church (with the elaborate façade dated 1924)
contains two frescoes by Giovanni Pittini
(1882) on the nave ceiling portraying the
Virgin and Angels and St. Antonio da Padova
adoring the Child, and, high on the entry wall,
framed within an elegant white lacquered
Baroque altar, a lovely 19th-century painting
of the Virgin with Child and Saints by
Giuseppe Malignani; below is an
airy landscape.At Silvella, taking
a walk to the main square is
worthwhile, to see the church
and the 17th-century Villa
Micoli (with its imposing
arched portals, frescoed
rooms, and rustic annexes)
fronting onto the square.
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It is not certain that the name Udine is of
pre-Roman origin, as researchers support,
deriving from a word meaning 'mamma'
and then metaphorically 'hill'. The fact is,
however, that from the hill in the middle
of the city (which according to a
legend was formed with the earth
carried in Attila's soldiers'
helmets since the king, after
having sacked Aquileia, wanted to see
it on fire) it is possible to sweep in
one look the whole of Friuli, from...go
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