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Pop.: 2,268
Area: 34,88 sq. km, 189 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Canalutto, Costa, Laurini,
Masarolis, Montina, Prestento,
Reant, Ronchis, Tamoris, Togliano
Town Hall: V. Principale, 16 - 33040 Torreano
Phone.: 0432.712028 Fax: 0432.712345
www.torreano.net
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Typical buildings
are still found
scattered in all the
municipality
territory, from
Torreano to Masarolis, from
Canalutto to Costa, Prestento,
and Togliano, decorated with
traditional architectural
elements often enriched with
popular devotional frescoes.
At Togliano in
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particular, in
the complex structure of
16th-century Villa della
Torre Maisano, built on the
foundations of the original
castle, 16th-century paintings
and frescoes are found. The
church of S. Rocco at
Montina di Prestento houses
a wooden altar by the clear
Renaissance vividness
datable to the year 1522:
carved, painted and richly
gilded by Giovanni Martini,
it has a squared gable
surmounting three niches
with the statues of
S. Rocco, S. Lorenzo and
S. Sebastian.
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Cividāt no je une vile, ma une
ponte di citāt /Cividale is not a
village but a small town, as the
lines of a famous Friulian villotta
rightly sing: Cividale, in fact, since
its foundation by the
Romans, was the
main city in the area and under
the Lombards the capital of
the Duchy of Friuli. Still
today, thanks to its
urban plan, its
monuments, the...go
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