| Municipality of Turriaco
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Pop.: 2,437
Area: 5,28 sq. km, 12 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods:
Town Hall: Piazza Libertà, 13 - 34070 Turriaco
Phone.: 0481.472711 Fax: 0481.767266
www.comune.turriaco.go.it
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Located at the
confluence of
River Torre into
River Isonzo, the
town still has a few
late-Baroque buildings. The
Parish Church of S. Rocco
was built in 1740-46 on a project by
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Lorenzo Martinuzzi after a smaller
church, maybe 16th-century, had been
demolished. On the outside, the façade, divided
in three sections, and the sturdy bell tower are
worth of note. Inside, the church contains several
works of art, in particular a ceiling fresco by
M. Furlanetto (1813) and a precious altarpiece
with Virgin and Saints by G.B. Grassi (1574) on
the high altar. Inside an 18th-century side altar
is the skull of S. Cornelio Papa, a present from
Pope Clemente X. Opposite the Parish Church,
please note the beautiful 17th-18th-century
Palazzo or Villa Fonda, former Priuli.
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| PROVINCE OF GORIZIA
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Among the smallest in Italy, Gorizia
province is a unique casket of natural,
historical and cultural beauty, benefiting
from mild climate most
of the year, a place
where, to the
north, the hilly
landscape
of the
Collio area - frequently
terraced and world
renown for its winesopens
to Europe through
the valleys of the Isonzo
and Vipacco Rivers. The
central-eastern part of the
province is of karst...go
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