| Municipality of Villa Vicentina
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Pop.: 1,340
Area: 5,43 sq. km, 9 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods:
Town Hall: P. Municipio, 1 - 33059 Villa Vicentina
Phone.: 0431.968918 Fax: 0431.970564
www.comune.villavicentina.ud.it
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Athoroughfare of armies and
merchants in Roman times and
of pilgrims in the Middle Ages,
the town preserves first-rate artistic
and historical vestiges,
though sometimes hidden to the profane eye:
Villa Ciardi-Baciocchi (17th-19th cent.) desired
in its present aspect by Elisa Baciocchi, Napoleon
Bonaparte's sister, who commissioned to Charles Sambucy the
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restoration of both this
summer residence and the park, peppered with
Roman stone finds, as was the fashion. The
adjacent sepulchral chapel dedicated to
Maria Vergine Assunta, in English neo-Gothic
style, was commissioned by her daughter
Elisa Baciocchi Camerata. Inside is the lovely
altarpiece of the Assumption by Augusto
Tominz (1876). Similarly, the Parish church of
S. Maria is rich in sacred works and precious
liturgical fittings, among which an important
shrine (13th, 14th-15th centuries). In 1917 the
War Memorial was erected near the church.
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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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