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Pop.: 5,074
Area: 205,52 sq. km, 732 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Camporosso, Cave del Predil,
Coccau, Colazzo, Fusine in val Romana,
Fusine Laghi, Monte Lussari, Rutte Grande, Rutte
Piccolo, Sant'Antonio
Town Hall: Via Roma, 3 - 33018 Tarvisio
Phone.: 0428.2980 Fax: 0428.40498
www.comuneditarvisio.com
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Located where the borders of
Italy, Austria and Slovenia meet,
a unique place in Europe where
four different languages are
normally spoken (Italian, German,
Slovenian and Friulian), just beyond Sella di
Camporosso, and therefore geographically in
Austria, Tarvisio became Italian only after the
First World War, though its Roman origins
are witnessed by some inscriptions dating
from the 2nd century AD on the parish church
boundary wall. More important yet
is the stone slab in the main street of
Camporosso, analysed also by Mommsen,
with bas-reliefs of a pedagogue and a teacher
carrying the following inscription: "Sacred to
the Manes - in memory of Avilia Leda, dead
at 35 years of age - Mutilio Fortunato and
Avilio Grato - pupils placed [this slab]". For
centuries the Tarvisio area was inhabited by
Slav and German populations whose cultures
are shown in works of art as well. The parish
church of SS. Pietro and Paolo dates from
the 15th century and 16th-century frescoes are
found in the presbytery and on the walls
(some of them referable to Tommaso from
Villach's school), among which is the portrait
of Charles V on horseback (celebrating his
intervention when the Turks arrived in
Tarvisio). In the church of B. V. di Loreto
are lovely paintings on wood by a
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Carinthian
painter dated around 1520, and in the small
cupola are 18th-century stuccoes and frescoes
by an Austrian master. Older than this is the
cycle of frescoes in the church of S. Nicoḷ
at Coccau, with scenes from Christ's Passion
attributed to an early 1400s local painter
revising Giottesque inventions and rhythms
in a popular key. In Camporosso (place name
seemingly deriving from the corrupt Italian
translation of a Slav place name meaning "toad
field"), in the Pieve of S. Egidio, the 1704 high
altar in polychrome marble and frescoes
(Flagellation
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and Crucifixion) by Tommaso
from Villach (end of 15th cent.) are worth
seeing, the latter commendable for the correct
layout, vivid colours, elaborate draperies and
steady trait. From Camporosso it is possible to
reach the Sanctuary of Monte Lussari by
cableway: a much worshipped place by
Carinthian, Slovene and Friulian populations,
according to a legend the Sanctuary was built
in 1360 when the Aquileia Patriarch of the
time ordered a chapel with altar to be built on
the site where a small statue of Virgin with
Child had been found. Today's building dates
to 1924 (after the previous ones had
collapsed). The miracle statue is a work of the
Gothic Austrian school, while the frescoes on
the triumphal arch are by Slovenian painter
Toni Kralj (1930). The rural villages of
Camporosso and Coccau are remarkable in the municipality
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territory, boasting outstanding
examples of spontaneous Carinthian
architecture; the mining village of Cave del
Predil is interesting instead for the tall houses
built for the miners' families. However,
prestigious residences datable between the
16th and 19th centuries, most of them
remodelled, may be found almost everywhere:
in Tarvisio Alta the Palazzo Municipale
(Town Hall), then Casa Candoni Brettner,
the Palazzo della Forestale, Casa Haberl,
and Palazzetto Spaliviero; in Tarvisio Bassa,
Casa Haring, Palazzo Schnablegger, Casa
Lindaver Scheiderberger, the Burgerspital,
the Schnablegger Hotel (now the Vidussi
shop). Tarvisio is the starting place for
picturesque walks and excursions to the
Forest of Tarvisio, the natural environment
of deer, bears and eagles, for the two Lakes
of Fusine, with their incredibly blue waters,
for the Lake of Predil (also called of Raibl),
darker and wilder, and for the rugged
mountains surrounding the town which have
in Mount Mangart their highest top.
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The land that from Moggio leads to
Tarvisio following the valley of River
Fella and its tributaries and the
valley of Torrent Gailitz whose
waters, after flowing through
Tarvisio, flow into the
River Gail and
finally into the
Black Sea,
is a land boasting
centuries of history,
culture and art, a
land already well...go
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