| Municipality of Visco
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Pop.: 697
Area: 3,52 sq. km, 24 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods:
Town Hall: V. Montello, 22 - 33040 Visco
Phone.: 0432.997003 Fax: 0432.998049
www.comune.visco.ud.it
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Evidence of Roman origins
linked to the use of the
territory as grazing land has been
found; while any medieval evidence
has completely disappeared,
both Venetian and Austrian influences are
substantiated and visible in religious
buildings, especially in liturgical fittings.
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The interior of Santa Maria Maggiore
(15th-17th centuries) is outstanding for the
elegance of both the wall decorations and the
marble high altar by Paolino Zuliani.
Remarkable is the stucco-framed altarpiece
with Virgin, Holy Father and model of the
church district by Giuseppe Cosattini
(17th cent). A 16th-century wooden set of
St. Martin and the poor is worth mentioning,
as well as the two chapels of Sant'Anna and
of Madonna di Loreto, respectively dating
from the 19th and 17th centuries, which are
examples of popular devotion. Today, Visco
is mainly and agricultural centre, thriving on
the fertility of the surrounding territory.
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| BASSA FRIULANA
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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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