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Pop.: 3,232
Area: 48,17 sq. km, 3 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Arrodola, Banduzzi, Chiarmacis,
Fornelli, Malisana, Villaggio Roma
Town Hall: P. del Popolo, 1 - 33050 Torviscosa
Phone.: 0431.927911 Fax: 0431.929043
www.comune.torviscosa.ud.it
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Located along the Roman Via Annia
(hence the important archaeological
finds), the town, formerly called Zuino
then Torre di Zuino, was first
mentioned in documents in 1278 as
having a castle. The industrial expansion during
the Fascist period deeply changed both the
urban plan and vocation of the town, giving life
to a rational road network and boosting the
realization of
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urban fittings (the monumental
sculptures by L. Lodi), public and private
buildings, sports facilities and factories that have
made Torviscosa one of the clearest examples of
Fascist town planning. Of the old town only the
18th-century Parish Church (Madonna del
Rosario) remains, containing several works of
the same period and a vivid wooden Virgin with
Child of the Tolmezzo school (16th cent.).
Interesting is also the Cemetery
church at Malisana, of probably early
Romanesque origin though restructured
and enlarged between the 15th and 17th
centuries, with the bell tower on the
façade. Inside, the Gothic choir shows
frescoes attributed to Giovanni de
Cramariis (15th cent.) and the altar
stands on the drum of a Doric column.
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The name "Bassa"
identifies the Friuli plains
extending towards the Adriatic,
beginning more or less from the so-called
Stradalta (just a bit south
of the present-day
Strada
Napoleonica),
namely below the line of
resurgences from which
rivers or streams or
simply natural springs
often originate,
contributing to shaping the...go
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