| Municipality of Santa Maria la Longa
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Pop.: 2,312
Area: 91,42 sq. km, 39 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Mereto di Capitolo, Ronchiettis,
Santo Stefano Udinese, Tissano
Town Hall: Via Roma, 36 - 33050 Santa Maria la Longa
Phone.: 0432.995003 Fax: 0432.995005
www.comune.santamarialalonga.ud.it
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The municipal territory is
peppered with 17th- and 18thcentury
villas: at Santa Maria la
Longa, Villa Colloredo Mels,
where during the First World War
the first European centre for aerial
photography was set, Villa Bearzi, now
housing the Piccolo Cottolengo, surrounded
by annexes built to perform all the charity's
activities; at Mereto di Capitolo,
Villa Morelli
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de Rossi,
Villa Cosattini Scala,
Villa Brazzą Gortani where the surrender of
Palmanova was signed on 24 June 1848; at
Tissano, Villa Cainero Mauroner and
Villa Agricola, Strassoldo, del Torso with
its courtyard and park embellished with a
pond, waterways and statues. At Mereto di
Capitolo are altarpieces by Pietro Bainville
and Giuseppe Cosattini.
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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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