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Pop.: 3,852
Area: 50,59 sq. km, 70 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Coderno, Gradisca, Grions, Rivis,
SanLoren zo, Turrida
Town Hall: Via XXIV Maggio, 2 - 33039 Sedegliano
Phone.: 0432.916235 Fax: 0432.915025
www.comune.sedegliano.ud.it
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Several findings of ancient
settlements have been brought to
light in the area of Sedegliano, in
particular the protohistoric
castelliere of Gradisca, one of the
largest in Friuli, which was made into a
playing field in the 1900s! The parish church
of S. Antonio Abate is complemented with a
tall brick bell
tower by
Girolamo
D'Aronco
(1896-1901)
and contains
frescoes by
Lorenzo
Bianchini
(1885) and a
good
altarpiece by
Pomponio
Amalteo (1553) with
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Enthroned Virgin with Child
and Saints. Lovely are also the frescoes
(unfortunately damaged) by Giampietro da
Spilimbergo in the small church of
SS. Pietro and Paolo in the cemetery;
lovelier yet are those in the small church
of S. Giovanni Battista at Redenzicco
showing a peculiar procession (by an
unknown 16th-century painter) of the town's
notable which offers a lively portrait of
fashionable clothes and hats. In the rural
village of Gradisca, Palazzo Venier has
18th-century frescoes, and the
parish church has a nice portal by
Pilacorte (1515) and a fresco by
Gian Carlo Bevilacqua (1839).
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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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