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Pop.: 11,080
Area: 72,47 sq. km, 132 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Barbeano, Baseglia, Gaio,
Gradisca, Istrago, Tauriano, Vacile, Brindisi,
Bussolino, Casasola, La Favorita, Navarons
Town Hall: Piazza Castello, 4 - 33097 Spilimbergo
Phone.: 0427.591111 Fax: 0427.591123
www.comune.spilimbergo.pn.it
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Duomo of Santa Maria Maggiore
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The historic centre of
Spilimbergo developed
radially around the medieval
Castle fronting on the pebbly
riverbank of the Tagliamento,
in what was once a strategic position for
trading thanks to the presence of river
fords. The frescoes on the court façade
of the castle date to the late 1400s: the
work of A. Bellunello, they were
probably commissioned by Alvise of
Spilimbergo to celebrate the close
relationship between his own family and
the Altan family from San Vito; in the
best preserved parts, from above, it is
possible to recognize portraits of men
inside clipei, then coat-of-arms, the four
cardinal Virtues, figures with musical
instruments and pages holding the reins
of rampant horses. Once you cross the
moat bridge, two impressive buildings
front onto the wide square: the
Renaissance Loggia (former Town Hall,
the latter now housed in nearby
Palazzo Spilimbergo di sopra) and,
opposite, the Duomo of
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Santa Maria Maggiore (behind whose apse is the
small church of Santa Cecilia, where a
Martyrdom of two Saints by Narvesa is
preserved). Many religious buildings are
worth a visit, as the church of
San Giovanni Battista, for example
(whose interior is dominated by the
fresco of a suffering Crucifixion- early
15th century- set in the high altar as an
altarpiece; in an altar to the right is a
Visitation by G. Narvesa -1588-), or the
church of San Rocco (with a tender
representation of the Saint by the same
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author dating to the early 1600s), or yet
the oratory of San Giovanni dell'Eremo
in the suburbs towards Dignano
(preserving inside the Agnus Dei,
Apostles and Stories of the Baptist 14th-15th cent.). In the historical centre,
some buildings are noteworthy for their
frescoed façades, in particular Palazzo
Monaco (15th cent.) and the so-called
painted house near the eastern tower;
close to the house, another building
shows a Crucifixion and Saints in the
porch attributable to Narvesa as well. In
the immediate surroundings of the town,
Pordenone left his traces almost
everywhere: frescoes by his hand are
found in the church of San Marco at
Gaio (before 1506, while the1490 portal
is by Pilacorte) and mainly in the
church of San Lorenzo at Vacile
(1506-1510 ca.), whose apse webs
clearly show (for example in the
different technique used in shading) the
gradual detachment of the artist from the
almost exclusively graphic traits of his
formative years, namely from what is
shown, instead, on the
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walls of the
church of Sant'Antonio Abate at
Barbeano, dominated by the first organic
cycle of frescoes by Gianfrancesco da
Tolmezzo in Friuli (before 1489). The
great drawing skill of the master is
revealed mainly in the Doctors of the
Church, Evangelists and Prophets on the
vault, relentlessly defined by the details
of beards, lecterns and cathedra doors
foreshortened in the Venetian style. The
persistence of Pordenone's style in the
works by his main follower is instead
visible in the church of Santa Croce at
Baseglia, with the wall cycle signed by
P. Amalteo (1540-1550 ca.) showing its
happiest moments in the vivid grottesca
decorations of the intrados and in figures
graced with sensual Mannerism such as
Charity on the left abutment.
At Tauriano, the choir walls in the
church of San Nicolò are covered with
frescoes by Giovan Pietro da
Spilimbergo (1502), relating Episodes
from the Old and New Testaments and
Stories of San Nicolò.
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| MANIAGO AND SPILIMBERGO
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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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