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Pop.: 2,146
Area: 27,95 sq. km, 206 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Lestans,
Solimbergo
Town Hall: Piazza Municipio, 2 - 33090 Sequals
Phone.: 0427.93015 Fax: 0427.938855.93512
www.comune.sequals.pn.it
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The church of
Sant'Andrea
Apostolo (18th cent.)
rises on a small hill
and seems to watch
over the town centre. It
preserves inside a font by
G.A. Pilacorte, dated to the
year 1497, in which some putti
support in a dynamic effort the
basin, while his Angel and
Our Lady of the Annunciation
seemly face each other on the
balustrade in the church of
San Nicoḷ (1504), the latter
also preserving a portal by
Pilacorte. Inside the church
of San Nicoḷ, also the marble
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altar with inlaid frontal (18th
cent.) is noteworthy, as well
as the fragments of a fresco by
M. Tiussi (Martyr Saints, 1567)
in the apse intrados and two
paintings by G. Narvesa
(St. Valentine and St. Floriano,
early 17th cent.). At Lestans
the church of Santa Maria
Assunta has a cycle of frescoes
by P. Amalteo (1535-1551)
beginning with the Saints on
the intrados and continuingthrough
the Coronation of the
Virgin, Evangelists and Fathers
of the Church, Stories from the
Old Testament- to the Stories
of the Virgin and Jesus on the
walls, finally culminating in
the
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Resurrection, with the
Saviour rising well above the
painted panel frame, creating
the dynamic spatial illusion
through which Amalteo,
following Pordenone's example,
tries to elicit the utmost
involvement in the viewer. It is
still at Lestans that Villa Savorgnan
(whose building began
in the 16th century) houses an
archaeological collection
including the finds of
excavations in the territory,
while Villa Ciani is the seat
of CRAF (Centro di Ricerca
e Archiviazione della
Fotografia- centre for research
on photography). Villa Carnera
houses instead the museum
dedicated to Primo Carnera,
the boxer native of Sequals
who became a heavyweight
world champion.
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While the Maniago area has been
marked by the century-old tradition of
knife makers, that has provided the
necessary support to its industrial
growth, Spilimbergo has
had a similar
experience
in the field of
mosaic
creation, as
the local
Mosaic School has
worked for decades at
the highest levels, also
obtaining important
international orders. But
Spilimbergo is...go
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