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Pop.: 7,304
Area: 17,57 sq. km, 199 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Adorgnano, Ara Grande, Ara
Piccola, Felettano, Fraelacco,
Laipacco, Leonacco
Town Hall: P. G. Ellero, 1 - 33019 Tricesimo
Phone.: 0432.851963 Fax: 0432.880542
www.comune.tricesimo.ud.it
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Situated, as its
place name states,
thirty miles from
Aquileia (ad tricesimum
m.p. ab urbe)
on the road leading to the
Noricum, Tricesimo was
founded in 60 BC. The castle
was built in the 13th century
belonging at first to the
Prampero, then Montegnacco
and finally Valentinis
households, and it is now a
spiritual retreat. The annexed
family chapel has 16th-century
frescoes by Pomponio Amalteo.
In the territory there are several
prestigious residences, among
which
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Villa Orgnani, surrounded by embattled walls
and located in the outskirts of
the rural district of Laipacco;
Villa Filittini de Rubeis
Masieri, now belonging to
Unione Italiana Ciechi, at
Luseriacco (17th century), with
its harmonious façade and
gabled front. The Pieve (rural
church) of S. Maria was built
on a design by Domenico
Schiavi (1770-1789), although
it was mentioned since the
1200s. The main portal by
Bernardino da Bissone
(1498-1505: the statues of
Annunciation were put on the
façade), was set on the right side:
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it is considered the
artist's masterpiece for the
refined carvings and
the exuberant vegetal and
anthropomorphic decorations.
Close to the portal is an
architrave carrying the
famous 1477 inscription to
commemorate at the same
time the invasions of locusts
and the Turks, when the latter,
having crossed the Isonzo,
devastated and burned the
Friuli lands. Inside the rural
church are paintings by Palma
the Younger, G.B. Tosolini,
Filippo Giuseppini. In the
churches of S. Pelagio in
Adorgnano and S. Giuseppe
in Laipacco, interesting cycles
of frescoes by Gian Paolo
Thanner (16th century) are
visible, while the church of
S. Vito at Luseriacco contains
an ancient holy water spout
(12th cent.) and 15th-century
frescoes.
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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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