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Pop.: 8,727
Area: 35,08 sq. km, 230 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Aprato, Bulfons, Ciseriis, Coja, Collalto,
Collerumiz, Loneriacco, Malmaseria, Molinis,
Sammardenchia, Sedilis, Segnacco, Stella, Zomeais
Town Hall: P. Roma - 33017 Tarcento
Phone.: 0432.780630 Fax: 0432.791694
www.comune.tarcento.ud.it
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Its geographical position and mild
climate favoured the building of
villas in the lovely town on River Torre,
which was known as -the pearl of
Friuli- in the early 1900s. Thus,
Villa Pontoni, whose oldest part called palazzat,
the former residence of the noble Frangipane
household, dates to the 16th century; Villa
Angeli, belonging to the Frangipane and then to
the Prampero households, was decorated inside
by Francesco Barazzutti (19th cent.); Villa de
Rubeis, built in 1759;
Villa Moretti, one of the
greatest accomplishments by architects Ruggero
and Arduino Berlam (ca. 1920); Villa Marcuzzi,
dated 1924, designed by Ermes Midena. And
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then Palazzo Frangipane, today publiclyowned,
at Villafredda, and Villa Liruti, inside
the highly picturesque fortified medieval
complex, must not be forgotten. Also
the rural neighbourhoods of Coia,
Molinis, Stella and others are worth
visiting, as they still retain various
typical features, in spite of the loss of
many houses owing to the earthquake and the
restructuring of many others. The parish
church of S. Pietro Apostolo dates from the
Romanesque period but was restructured in the
15th century and later on modified and enlarged.
Its 17th-century marble high altar is really
spectacular, full of good-quality statues,
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purchased in 1813 from the church of S. Maria
della Cella in Cividale. The parish church also
contains an altarpiece by Odorico Politi
portraying the Delivery of keys to Peter, maybe a
bit melodramatic but correct and directed
by the old style. In the choir, decorations by
Francesco Barazzutti are to be found, while the
nave ceiling boasts a fresco of the Assumption
of the Virgin by Giuseppe Ghedina (1874). At
Segnacco, the lovely votive church of S. Eufemia
(14th cent.) used to have a polychrome
gilded wooden statue of S. Eufemia datable to
the mid-14th century, now replaced by a copy
while the original is in the Diocesan Museum in
Udine. In the other parish church dedicated
to S. Michele, an important cycle of frescoes
by Lorenzo Bianchini is found in the choir vault
and nave (1880), while the church of Madonna
del Giglio at Aprato contains a recently restored
wooden altar dating to the early 1600s attributed
to G.A. Agostini; finally, in the church of
S. Biagio, a small Virgin with Child by Leonardo
Thanner (end of 15th century) is worthwhile.
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| FROM UDINE TO JULIAN PRE-ALPS
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The pleasant hilly area of Friuli, the
strip of land running from Gemona to
San Daniele almost to reach the suburbs
of Udine, has always been, through the
centuries, subject to earthquakes: suffice
it to mention the appalling
earthquakes of 1348
(also mentioned by
the Florentine historian
Filippo Villani), of
1511 (that halfdestroyed
Udine...go
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