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Pop.: 2,297
Area: 54,16 sq. km, 230 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Carnia, Pioverno, Portis
Town Hall: P. Municipio, 1 - 33010 Venzone
Phone.: 0432.985266 Fax: 0432.985404
www.comune.venzone.ud.it
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parchment-like. The
imposing ring of walls has
been partly reconstructed,
enclosing in a wide hexagon
the eighteen "insulae" of the
ancient town, running
for about 1060 metres
quite high above
the large rampart
on which the three
gate towers stood;
of the latter, only
the tower S. Genesio,
dated 1309, has survived.
The Town Hall is a real gem
of Gothic ornate style,
reminiscent of Venetian and
Tuscan influences: built
between 1390 and 1410, then
several times demolished
and rebuilt, it has a loggia
and traces of frescoes
by Pomponio Amalteo
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(16th cent.). Close-by stands
the new building housing
municipal offices (1978-
1981) and in the square
is the public fountain, with
the typical octagonal basin,
created in 1878 by artists
Tuti and Fantoni from
Gemona. Opposite is Palazzo
Radiussi, with its lovely
Renaissance portal. In the
small Romanesque church
of SS. Giacomo and Anna
are frescoes (unfortunately
mutilated) by painters of
Vitale da Bologna's school
(Holy Father, symbols of the
Evangelists, Apostles and
Baptism of Christ,
mid-14th cent.) and in
S. Caterina is an interesting
15th-century fresco portraying
the Mystic Marriage of
S. Caterina; finally,
in S. Antonio Abate at
Val Venzonassa are frescoes
attributed to Gaspare Negro
(Stories of S. Antonio Abate
and Apostles, 16th cent.
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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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