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Pop.: 12,371
Area: 15,37 sq. km, 132 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Adegliacco, Branco,
Cavalicco, Colugna, Feletto Umberto
Town Hall: P. Indipendenza, 1 - 33010 Tavagnacco
Phone.: 0432.577311 Fax: 0432.577388
www.comune.tavagnacco.ud.it
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The building that
holds most historical
and artistic vestiges is
certainly the church of
S. Leonardo at Cavalicco,
which was consecrated on
12 July 882: it boasts frescoes
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dating to different periods,
among which the one in the
choir webs with Doctors of the
Church and symbols of the
Evangelists are noteworthy,
attributed to a Friulian painter
of the second half of the 15th
century. In the nave are scenes
from St. Leonardo's life by a
14th-century fine painter. The
church of S. Clemente at Adegliacco
has instead a fresco in
the vault by Carlo Boldi (1793).
Among civil buildings Villa di
Prampero is notable, located
as it is in the splendid natural
environment
of a large park
on the banks
of River
Cormor.
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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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