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TO THE DISCOVERY OF THE TWO AVENUES AND OF THEIR PALACES

Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, the south to north, parallel to the small old Pordenone. Along the avenue, ancient Contrada Maggiore, starts resurgence waterways that supply you will see several buildings of from the ancient Town Hall and its the close Noncello river. Here, the considerable artistic and architec- course is irregular as it was made first buildings of the town were tural interest: in an empirical way by its first in- built around 1000 A.D., and they habitants following the traditional were partly rebuilt after the fires common route of the area, from that destroyed many houses of the

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It is believed that the building structure of today’s façade, lev- Motorways Regional Airport of Trieste www.trenitalia.it originally consisted of the right elled and marmorino finished in A4 Torino - Trieste 40 km from Trieste and Udine Call Centre 89.20.21 portion only that, isolated, formed the eighteenth century, hid under- A23 Palmanova - Udine - Tarvisio 15 km from Gorizia A28 Portogruaro - 80 km from Pordenone a square based squat tower. From Palazzo Gregoris - at n. 44 (17th cent.) lying fresco decorations that could www.aeroporto.fvg.it it, the building was enlarged both Some fresco pieces and the remains be dated back to the fifteenth cen- horizontally and vertically, with of a window testify the fourteenth- tury. It is difficult to explain the Design and Creation: Five Zone Udine _ Cartography:Tarabocchia _ Printing: Ellerani - San Vito al _ Texts by Infopoint Pordenone Translation by: D’Agostini Organizzazione Dipartimento linguistico Dagoservice _ Photographs: Archivio Turismo FVG, Archivio Comune di Pordenone, Archivio Comune di Valvasone, E. e S. Ciol, two main floors over the ground century origin of the original build- many coats of arms on the façade, E. Fabris, C. genuzio G. Pignat, D. Rommel, A. Romor, E. Tubaro. floor, as well as the attic that still ing. Today’s palace is a wonderful originally at least seven consider- extends over the whole palace. example of Venetian architecture on ing the traces and the proportions. TOURIST INFORMATION dry land. Balconies, large windows, arches and mascarons characterize Fourteenth-century Palace - at n. 25 AGENZIA TURISMOFVG the façade, which features the large The building consists of two bod- Villa Chiozza - 33052 Cervignano del Friuli stone coat of arms of the family, with ies: the typical fourteenth-century tel +39 0431 387111 / fax +39 0431 387199 USEFUL NUMBERS USEFUL NUMBERS USEFUL NUMBERS an underlying dedication cartouche. Gothic construction on the left was [email protected] Azienda Ospedaliera Auditorium Provinciale Concordia Carabinieri Informagiovani Diocesan Museum of Sacred Art PARCO - “A. Pizzinato” Modern Local Police RadioTaxi Service Science Centre Along the alley under the palace incorporated into the seventeenth- Santa Maria degli Angeli - Hospital via Interna, 1 Flying Squad: 112 piazzetta San Marco via Revedole, 1 and Contemporary Art Gallery via Oderzo, 9 / tel +39 0434 392811 tel +39 0434 368020 Immaginario Scientifico (Vicolo delle Mura) from the avenue century structure that raised the via Montereale, 24 tel +39 0434 231366 via del Carabiniere, 2 tel +39 0434 392533 tel +39 0434 524340 viale Dante, 33 via Vittorio , 31 you will reach the remains of the old whole building to the current three INFOPOINT TURISMOFVG di Pordenone tel +39 0434 399111 tel +39 0434 360131-2 tel +39 0434 523780 - 392941 Main Post Office “Giuseppe Verdi” Municipal Theatre Località Torre city walls, reduced to stumps by the floors, in addition to the garret. piazza XX Settembre, 11/B - 33170 Pordenone Library Municipal Museum of Art Archaeological Museum of Western www.artemodernapordenone.it via Santa Caterina, 8/10 viale Martelli, 2 tel +39 040 224424 French authorities among Napo- The arches of the underlying porti- tel +39 0434 520381 / fax +39 0434 241608 First aid: 118 piazza XX Settembre Ente Autonomo Fiera - Fair corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 51 Friuli, Castle of Torre di Pordenone tel +39 0434 222111 tel +39 0434 247624 www.immaginarioscientifico.it leon’s suite. In 1499 they had con- co, too, were made in two different tel +39 0434 392970 viale Treviso, 1 tel +39 0434 392935 via Vittorio Veneto, 19 PARCO 2 - Exhibition venues Call center 899 5000 55 [email protected] Il pass per scoprire il Palazzo Gregoris - Bassani tributed to saving the city from the moments. The older portion was Azienda Trasporti Automobilistici tel +39 0434 232111 tel +39 0434 541412 / fax +39 0434 541433 via Bertossi, 9 / tel +39 0434 392916 Taxi URP Customer Relations Office at n. 46 (18th cent.) Turkish invasions. The alley leads originally finished with mock fres- Provinciali (A.T.A.P.) - Public Transport Pordenone Town Hall Municipal Natural History Museum piazza XX Settembre Pordenone Police headquarters Province of Pordenone INFOPOINT TURISMOFVG di Piancavallo The façade is divided into three to the present public gardens, near coed bricks: the two windows were via Collalto, 1 - 33081 Piancavallo- (Pn) via Oberdan, 82 at the railway station Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 64 GSM - Gestione Servizi Mobilità Silvia Zenari Sports Arena Municipal Swimming Pool tel +39 0434 520240 via Fontane largo San Giorgio, 12 floors with two rows of windows the disappeared “Porta dei Cappuc- edged with simple geometric poly- tel +39 0434 655191 / fax +39 0434 655354 tel +39 0434 224444 tel +39 0434 392111 tel +39 0434 209098 via della Motta, 16 via Fratelli Rosselli, 3 viale Treviso, 12 viale Mazzini, 82 (railway station) tel +39 0434 238111 tel +39 0434 231278 and an added garret, windowsills cini” (Gate of the Capuchin Friars). chromies: it would look of Roman- [email protected] Free toll number 800 101040 tel +39 0434 392950 tel +39 0434 361332 tel +39 0434 572384 tel +39 0434 521460 fax +39 0434 23877 (Seasonal opening from December to March and from June to September)

Tour to the discovery of the two avenues and of their palaces

esque style. By looking carefully, arch. The façades are charac- one can see that the upper parts terised by four rows of windows have been re-made: the round made rectangular, but in the left arch may have concealed the typi- one the original bending can be Pordenone: guide to the city cal Gothic polylobe-arched window. seen from the decorated cornic- The façade of the small original es. It re-emerged after the 2004 A CITY AND ITS RIVER building features the coat of arms restoration. Fourteenth-century with the colours of the dominating polychromatic panels and fres- A city and its river, an indissoluble bond that has made Pordenone what it looks today in the eyes of house (Austria), the same colours coes reappear in the thick coating tourists: a world still tightly linked to its past evidenced by palaces, frescoes, by the monuments of the Pordenone that characterise the city’s coat of layer of the brick wall. On the left, fascinating city centre, but also ready to face present and future challenges, continuously looking for an arms. It is one of the rare buildings a fragment preserves a point of Palazzo Pera equilibrium in which everything and everyone may find their space. THE ELEGANCE OF AN ATMOSPHERE which still bear the old so-called purple heraldic shield, perhaps of The renovation ended in 2004 OF OTHER TIMES Venetian-style or “parish” num- the city’s coat of arms, and on the has confirmed that over time this The history of Pordenone (the ancient Portus Naonis), in fact, is still connected to the Noncello, a silent bering: in the left intrados one can other the familiar Austrian barry building has incorporated a series waterway that for centuries has been navigable determining the economic development of the city and read the number 405. escutcheon is seen again. of pre-existing buildings start- contributing to creating a peculiar propensity to innovation, exchange and comparison. Walking through the centre of Pordenone means en- The Town Hall ing from the end of the 15th cen- tering an atmosphere of past times, where the ele- A symbolic building of Pordenone’s city centre, built Palazzo De Rubeis - Rosittis tury. The façade has brought back Dynamism and creativity, for instance, reveal themselves in the architecture, in the artistic, musical and gance of the palaces and of the arcades is combined between 1291 and 1395, completely made of bricks, at n. 17 decorative fresco fragments, with literary production, as well as in all the international events, such as Pordenonelegge.it and the Days of with the charm of the frescoes that, like the pages of a it stands on the highest part of the promontory that Of the two medieval palaces, some mock bricks, contemporary Silent Cinema, which have made Pordenone a rich and original cultural location in Italy. Visiting Pordenone book, seem willing to tell the story of the city. overlooks the Noncello river. At the centre, the project- joined afterwards, the first is of to the oldest wall of the building, and its province allows to have experiences that are very different from one another, where history, art, The fluent and harmonic lines of what once was the ing part erected in the second half of the 16th century particular interest, raised by one which was built on two floors. nature and food and wine tradition meet to provide everyone with their own personal and unforgettable Contrada Maggiore preserve priceless treasures and in four distinct bodies: the entrance arch featuring floor and modified in the portico, journey. lead to the discovery of hidden and fascinating cor- the city’s stone coat of arms, the balcony accessible with three nineteenth-century de- ners: churches, squares, a former convent, a clois- from the hall, the astronomical-lunar clocks, with the pressed-arch arcades. On the sev- ter, the old walls, narrow streets with a medieval look months and the zodiac, and the crowning with the enteenth-century panel set on the along which the main noble residences were built. peephole of the moon phases. On the top, the statues of first floor the fired brick cordon Casa Simoni - at n. 10 To understand Pordenone it is necessary to start from the two white Moors strike the bell every hour, between of the string-course runs, which This building was of State property, the Noncello river, and precisely from the Adam and the two curious pinnacles that stand on the sides. originally marked the undereave. as can be seen from the large coat Eve’s bridge over it. The hanging archlets decoration of arms of the city between the two Surrounded by a natural setting of extraordinary is surmounted by vegetal volutes Gothic windows of the façade, which beauty and leaving behind the Church of the Holy with polychrome sections, and is small but well proportioned. The Trinity, which still preserves the signs of the tragic between the columns exhibits original fourteenth-century struc- floods of a not so far past, walk towards Piazza San an original bestiary of fantastic ture was made up of two floors, Palazzo Sbrojavacca Marco where, all of a sudden, you will breathe in a animals and human images. The and in the front of the first floor Today, with Palazzo Pera, it is the Pordenone, Piazza XX Settembre Pordenonelegge Venetian atmosphere. The first settlements were painted face simulates a tapestry two single lancet windows with seat of the Provincial administra- founded in this area from which one could reach the with geometrical patterns with trilobed arches were inserted. The tion of Pordenone. Here, too, the two towers of the magnificent Porta Furlana gate, rhombuses, racemes and plant façade has preserved the simple renovation has brought back traces pulled down in 1837, with the drawbridge on the ir- volutes, while under the central mock brick decorations, bounded of ancient frescoes, probably by Gi- rigation channel and the closing system of the stone window there is an unknown Ba- in the undereave by two fascias anfranco from Tolmezzo: cornices bridge on the river. roque coat of arms. with floral motifs and with fruit. By and floral decorations with faces Next to the entrance you will see the historic house crossing Piazzetta Cavour, you will and drapes in the lower Renais- of Giovanni Antonio De Sacchis, called “” Casa Bernardi - at n. 15 enter Corso Garibaldi, where, start- sance building, which can be dated (1483-1539), Friuli’s greatest Renaissance painter. The construction consists of two ing from the 17th century, when the back to the end of the fifteenth Some buildings of the small square bear traces of buildings of the beginning of the city within the walls could no longer century, to which the 18th-century fresco decorations, and on a façade of the Town Hall fifteenth century, raised by one contain the continuous develop- interventions have given its current the Austrian escutcheon, which in the past was used floor at the end of the nineteenth ment of Pordenone, the new resi- aspect, in the interior as well, ac- to mark the State properties, stands out. century, each with a portico round dential buildings started to be built. cording to the change in the tastes. Abbey of Castle of The Churches, Museums and the Theatre Museums and Theatres Museums and Theatres

sion in the exhibition venues of via della Motta. The museum includes mentioning the fresco of the Vir- Moreover it is possible to admire technology by using interactive Bertossi, designed by German ar- important naturalistic collections gin with the Child and St. Leonard the exhibits from Palù di Livenza settings, to play with natural phe- chitect Thomas Herzog and placed (among which the collection of and St. John the Baptist (1507), which is UNESCO World Cultural nomena and explore their laws; it in a historic building in the city over 10,000 mineral samples, the by Gianfrancesco from Tolmez- Heritage. The Castle of Torre is proposes spectacular multimedia centre (PARCO 2). Two physically collection of fossils provided with zo, characterised by exceptional older than that of Pordenone, and themed exhibitions dedicated to separated but integrated struc- the life-size reconstruction of a graphic elegance; the cross on its foundations can be dated back the most various topics of science, tures that contribute to a varied mammoth and the famous nine- pole of golden silver by Giacomo to the Roman age, when the Non- of nature and of the environment The Churches, and rich museum and cultural of- teenth-century collection of birds). de’ Grandi from Noale (1548), the cello river was navigable up to the and it offers a rich programme of fer. The collections of PARCO (to The section dedicated to technol- wooden and polychrome Virgin close Villa of the Augustan age, educational and game activities Museums Museums which the temporary exhibitions ogy includes hundreds of old sci- with the Child by Giovanni Martini; whose archaeological site can be that invite adults, youths and chil- can be added) provide an historical entific instruments and an impor- the marble face of Christ by Orazio visited today, on the left bank of dren to a game of curiosity, exper- Church of St. Mary of the Angels Holy Trinity Church (16th cent.) Church of Blessed Odorico display of the twentieth century in tant collection of naval models of and the Annunciation and Adora- the river and from which the wall imentation and understanding of and the Theatre or of Christ Situated beyond the Adam and (Viale Della Libertà) recent archi- and Theatres Italy ranging from works by artists various ages, among which the tion of the Eucharist by the great paintings of that period displayed natural phenomena and scientific Municipal Library Built in 1309 by the Confraternity Eve’s bridge, beyond the Noncello tecture by Mario Botta, opened in from Friuli, such as Zigaina, Pizzi- traditional river navigation ones. master Francesco Guardi. at the museum come. In the site contents. piazza XX Settembre of the Battuti as a chapel of the river, just outside the ancient Fur- 1991. The Church is characterised nato and Afro, to those by Savinio, The educational planetary rooms Near the museum is the Diocesan the remains of what was probably tel +39 0434 392970 hospital, over the years it has been lana gate that overlooked the river by an interesting architectural pe- with stories of John the Baptist which consists of various ancient De Pisis, Campigli, Gattuso, Cagli, allows to simulate the motion of centre that, articulated in various the old storeroom are clearly vis- www.comune.pordenone.it/biblioteca The artistic-cultural heritage of the city is also expressed in its many churches, in its subject to various changes, among and the river port, the Church, en- culiarity: the upper part is charac- (about 1534). Particularly relevant reliquaries, among which real Sironi. Besides the works by Ital- the heavenly bodies in the sky. volumes corresponding to differ- ible as well. The Villa can be ac- museums and in the municipal theatre. which those of the eighteenth cen- tirely made of fired bricks, is of oc- terised by the emerging frustum is the large collection of wooden Renaissance and Gothic jewellery ian artists, there are also some ent functions, represents an inter- cessed from the pedestrian path in With the transfer to the new ven- tury and after the second World tagonal plan outside and of circu- of a cone, which marks - on the sculptures, with some of the rich- masterpieces. graphic works by great figures of esting creation by architect Oth- the adjoining park, a large natural ue of Piazza XX Settembre, in the War were considerable. Of great lar plan inside. The apse is entirely outside as well - the location of est works in Friuli Venezia Giulia twentieth-century European art, mar Barth. area crossed by the clear waters building of the former Convent of St. Mark’s Cathedral, built starting on the right, the Apsidal Chapel of St. considered one of the most beautiful importance the main portal by the covered by frescoes by Calderari the altar and of the assembly; the from the 12th century to the 17th Parco Pordenone such as Picasso, Braque, Chagall, of the old course of the Noncello the Dominican Friars, rich in his- from the 13th century, during the four- Nicholas, the protector of the Confra- in Italy due to its Romanesque-Gothic Pilacorte School (1510), the inter- (about 1540 - 45) and the altar- light that enters through the win- century, among which we would Contemporary Art Delvaux. river. tory and of unquestionable archi- teenth century took Romanesque- ternity of the river sailors of Pordenone, characteristics. Nearly 80 metres high, esting fourteenth-century fresco piece of the high altar was made in dow that closes it illuminates the like to point out the magnificent Parco Galvani, tectural charm, the new multime- Gothic shapes, which today can still while, on the left, the Apsidal Chapel with its majestic and at the same time fragments, among which the Sun- 1611 by Gaspare Nervesa. interior. Altar of the Battuti in Valeriano viale Dante 33 dia library appears as a modern be seen on the outside, above all in of St. Augustine containing a Pente- light and elegant structure, it stands day Christ, on the left wall, with The entrance portal features three (1509) carved and painted by Gio- tel +39 0434 523780 “Giuseppe Verdi” stronghold of knowledge, attentive the apsidal part. The external façade, cost by Gianfrancesco from Tolmezzo out in the territory in such a way that it symbols of the jobs to be aban- notches engraved on the occasion vanni di Domenico from Tolmezzo. www.artemodernapordenone.it Municipal Theatre to contemporary needs, and at the remained incomplete, has four large (about 1500). The chapel of the Monte- can be seen for many kilometres. doned in the day for worshipping of as many devastating floods. Some rooms on the first and sec- [email protected] viale Martelli, 2 same time rooted in its traditions stone half-columns, which are the re- reale Mantica family, near the right pil- God, and a large wooden crucifix, Municipal Museum of Art ond floor feature large frescoed tel +39 0434 247624 and in the territory it expresses. mains of a 19th century intervention by lar, is very rich and entirely frescoed by with the background painted with Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 51 surfaces dating back to the end The new “Gallery of modern and www.comunalegiuseppeverdi.it Besides the rich archives of books Francesco Lazzari; at the centre there Calderari with the stories of the Virgin a Venetian-Flemish landscape. tel +39 0434 392312 of the 14th century, which depict contemporary art”, dedicated to and reviews, the music, youth and is the large portal of 1511 by sculp- of Christ, of the mid-sixteenth cen- St. George the Martyr Church www.comune.pordenone.it/museoarte stories of Tristan and Isolde, al- the great 20th-century artist Ar- Diocesan Museum of Sacred art It was built on the ashes of the Cin- comic strip sections, various data- tor Giovanni Antonio Pilacorte, whose tury. We would like to point out, in the Enlarged in 1625 and totally rebuilt legorical scenes and an episode mando Pizzinato, extends over via Revedole, 1 Archaeological Museum ema Teatro Verdi, closed on 30th bases and on-line services, among jambs feature the bas-relief symbols background of the dinner in Emmaus according to the plan by G.B. Bassi The museum, that was set up taken from the Carolingian cycle. a surface of about 2,000 sqm di- tel +39 0434 524340 of Western Friuli June 1999 and then pulled down. which the one that allows to ac- of the zodiacal signs, while in the up- frescoed on the left wall, the descrip- between the end of the nineteenth thanks to the bequest of painter The Museum of Art preserves the vided into two different exhibition via Vittorio Veneto, 19 - Torre A facility provided with a main hall cess the daily edition of over 700 per lunette there is a valuable statue of tion of the three wayfarers that enter a century and the beginning of the Grigoletti (1801-70) treasure of St. Mark’s Cathedral, areas. The first, surrounded by Situated on a hill not far from the tel +39 0434 541412 with 936 seats, divided between newspapers published in more Christ. The interior features precious town that is not difficult to recognise as twentieth century, it has a pecu- from Pordenone, features many a large park, was born out of the Noncello river in a modern and www.comune.pordenone.it/museoarcheologico Immaginario Scientifico the stalls and three balconies, with than 70 countries and in 38 differ- works that are evidence of its age-old Pordenone. The altar features the Al- liar bell tower in the shape of a works related to the production in integration of a historic Venetian Municipal Natural functional building, it was opened Interactive and multimedia a “foyer” with 148 seats, that can ent languages and many Internet history: three works of the Cathedral tarpiece by with the white stone fluted Doric column, the territory of Friuli. The most im- villa and of a new building con- History Museum in 1995. The collection presents Set up in the Castle of Torre, re- Science Museum be used for concerts, prose shows, workstations, the library stages are by famous painter Giovanni Antonio Flight into Egypt, made about ten years on top of which a huge statue of portant are those by Giovanni An- nected to it made up of four large via della Motta, 16 the typical sections of the oth- cently renovated, the museum via Vittorio Veneto, 31 conferences, conventions and art initiatives of various kinds: music de’ Sacchis called “Il Pordenone”. Said after the frescoes. Precious bas-reliefs St. George stands. It preserves tonio de’ Sacchis, called “Il Porde- exhibition rooms and of a series of tel +39 0434 392950 er diocesan museums, such as preserves several finds by the last 33170 Torre di Pordenone film showing and with a rehearsal concerts, theatre shows, lectures works are the Altarpiece of Mercy, in feature some of the large tombstones a painting attributed to Gasparo none” (1483/84-1539), considered rooms used for museum services, www.comune.pordenone.it/museostorianaturale detached frescoes, stone and exponent of the family residing in tel +39 040 224424 room, with 99 seats, equipped also and everything that may contrib- the first chapel on the right, the fres- moved and walled outside during the Narvesa with St. George killing the Friuli’s greatest painter of all among which a 100-seat confer- wooden sculptures, paintings on the castle, Count Giuseppe of Ra- [email protected] for shows with the participation of ute to further precious cultural coes of St. Rocco and of St. Erasmus re-flooring of the Cathedral. dragon (17th cent.). times: do not miss the large altar- ence room. The two buildings are Dedicated to Silvia Zenari, the canvas and panels, sacred jewel- gogna, during his activity as an ar- www.immaginarioscientifico.it the audience. enrichment. on an octagonal pillar, dating back to piece with Saint Gotthard between externally connected by means of most famous naturalist from lery and silverware, sketches and chaeologist. The finds come from the first decades of the sixteenth cen- The bell tower, built completely in Saint Sebastian and Saint Rocco a terrace-square that overlooks a Pordenone, it was founded in 1970 prints, textile products and votive the whole western Friuli and pro- Faithful to its layout as a next- tury, and the Altarpiece of St. Mark on bricks, with the elegant three-light win- (1525-26) and the doors of the fascinating resurgence lake. This and is situated in the sixteenth- offerings. There are also pieces of vide a wide historical survey, from generation science museum, the the high altar. On the sides of the altar, dows and the hanging brick archlets, is Christening Font of the Cathedral, first complex finds its own exten- century Palazzo Amalteo, in Piazza absolute importance: it is worth Prehistory to the Renaissance. museum focuses on science and

MAP OF PORDENONE AND SURROUNDINGS Towns and cities in the province of Pordenone

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INFOPOINT TURISMOFVG Developed around the ancient cas- stone details and to the frescoes PORDENONE tle, Spilimbergo is one of Friuli Ven- along the whole wall surface. piazza XX Settembre, 11/B Towns ezia Giulia’s most important towns The Cathedral of St. Mary Major is tel +39 0434 520381/ fax +39 0434 241608 01 03 from an artistic and cultural point one of the most important Gothic of view. It experienced a period of buildings in Friuli, and its interior INFOPOINT TURISMOFVG and cities PIANCAVALLO great splendour between the Mid- features a cycle of fourteenth-cen- via Collalto, 1 - 33081 Piancavallo (Pn) dle Ages and the Renaissance, evi- tury frescoes with stories from the Parks 04 tel +39 0434 655191 / fax +39 0434 655354 in the province dence of which is provided by for- Old and the New Testament and a tifications, churches rich in works sixteenth-century organ of great IAT - RELAXING IN NATURE of art and several palaces, many of value. Friuli Venezia Giulia’s Mo- piazza V. Emanuele II, 5 of Pordenone which still preserve their frescoed saic School was founded in Spilim- AND ON THE RIVER BANKS tel +39 0427 76300 / fax +39 0427 764735 façades. In the past the castle was bergo in 1922: today, in the mosaic admire and buy some of the works IAT - called “Girone” due to its circular and terrazzo workshops, marte- made by the students. Noncello River Park Querini-Valdevit Park Park of Villa Carinzia via Maestri del Lavoro, 1 01 Maniago shape. The fifteenth-century pal- lines, blocks and chisels still mark The Noncello, a typical resurgence The Querini-Valdevit Park is op- The Park of Villa Carinzia was tel +39 0427 709063 ace painted with frescoes by Bel- the time of an ancient job, that of Nearby, in Provesano di San Gior- waterway, is crossed by the Adam posite the railway station and was made in the second half of the fax +39 0427 707200 Known as the Town of Cutlery of the Castle, of which one can see the ironworks to the craft shops, up lunello and stone balconies by Pi- the mosaicist and of the terrazzo gio della Richinvelda, is St. Leon- and Eve’s bridge, which has replaced part of the homonymous Neo- 19th century at the edge of the Works, the main monument of portions of the walls and of the bod- to today’s industry; the second is lacorte stands out in the complex maker. ard’s Church, inside which an IAT - SACILE important cycle of frescoes made the eighteenth-century bridge by Gothic villa, pulled down at the cotton mill of which it was part, in viale Zancanaro, 4 Maniago is the Friulian late Gothic ies that made up the complex, as dedicated to the materials used for of buildings built in a circle around The school, famous all over the Bartolomeo Ferracina, a well-known beginning of the 1970s, and today Viale Martelli, and inside it a villa 11 tel +39 0434 737057 Cathedral dedicated to St. Mauro well as the 13th-century St. James’ blades and handles, whereas the the internal courtyard owing to its world for its cutting-edge tech- in 1496 by Gianfrancesco from Tol- fax +39 0434 737925 third proposes a visit to the discov- beautiful Gothic and Renaissance niques, includes a mosaic art mezzo is well preserved. builder of that period from Veneto, has characteristics that are in- was built to house subsidiary ser- Palù di Livenza martyr, built in 1488 (but with inter- Chapel. The former Spinning Mill and owes its popular name to the spired by English gardens, main- vices of the factory: today it houses nal renovations in the 16th century, building now houses the Munici- ery of the functions and the shapes three-light windows, to its elegant museum where it is possible to 02 statues placed on high stone pillars, taining the differences in height of various offices and services of the IAT - mainly in the side chapel). pal Library, whereas the Museum of knives and the like. piazza del Popolo that actually represent Jupiter and the ground, alternating grassland Province of Pordenone. Do not miss the large square over- of Blacksmith’s Art and of Cutlery tel e fax +39 0434 80251 Juno and had been given to the city and tree-lined areas and including cell +39 331 8224411 looked by Palazzo d’Attimis Ma- has been magnificently set up at 03 of Pordenone by the Venetian lieu- a small expanse of water. Episcopal Seminary niago, which preserves a wonderful the CO.RI.CA.MA., (the first exam- tenant of Udine. Built in 1920 as a The largest public green area is 12 IAT - SESTO AL REGHENA Italian-style garden dating back to ple of a mass-production knife fac- The town of Sequals, besides the drawbridge to let cargo boats pass Galvani Park made up of the wide lowlands of 05 piazza Castello, 5 the 18th century, the Loggia Pub- tory dating back to the beginning of sporting achievements of its Box- 10 towards the new port planned a lit- The Galvani Park was made in a the Episcopal Seminary: about tel e fax +39 0434 699701 blica (Public Loggia) with three the 20th century). The Museum is ing World Champion Primo Car- tle upstream and never completed, private area, in Viale Dante, it is thirty hectares, to which one big arches, the nineteenth-century divided into three sections: the first nera called the “Good Giant” (1906 IAT - SPILIMBERGO the current bridge is a good observa- characterised by a regular aspect has access from Via Revedole, via Dante Alighieri, 31 fountain, which is the symbol of the shows the historical path of the – 1967), is also famous for its ter- razzo and mosaic production. tion point of the elements of the area that recalls that of the gardens of crossed by various small resur- 06 tel e fax +39 0427 2274 town. Interesting are also the ruins working of knives and blades, from of the river park: when the water is the Venetian villas and includes a gence channels and bounded by cell +39 329 6297148 clear, it is possible to see the fish pond. The park also includes, in its the old course of the Noncello riv- 09 02 Valvasone fauna. On the right bank of the river, southern part, the residence of the er, where one can enjoy the vari- IAT - TOPPO DI via Verdi , 98 c/o the riverside road called Riviera del historic Galvani family: it is Villa ous species of aquatic avifauna in A small medieval town of Roman Worth visiting is the fifteenth-cen- Palazzo dei Conti Toppo Wassermann Pordenone develops with a cycle Galvani, which can be dated back complete peace. tel e fax +39 0427 90073 origin, Valvasone preserves all its tury cycle of frescoes in the small track and a wide footpath, from which to the end of the eighteenth centu- charm thanks to its old town cen- church of the patron saints (Pietro one can look at the typical aquatic av- ry, and whose oldest body is surely S. Valentino Park IAT - tre: houses with arcades and me- e Paolo). Inside the Cathedral it is 07 ifauna of the area, which consists of the central part, with a square plan For a pleasant walk, we would like via Roma, 1 dieval and Renaissance buildings possible to admire the beauty of little grebes, mallards, coots, moor- and the traditional access hall and to suggest the S. Valentino Park, tel +39 0427 869412 stand along alleys among calli, the only 16th-century Venetian or- hens, herons and cormorants. The the stairs for accessing the upper which features an example of city sundials, wells and a beautiful gan existing in Italy, still in work- 08 IAT - VALVASONE rich vegetation surrounds the banks floors. Today the villa stages mod- industrial archaeology, the former piazza Libertà, 1 15th-century watermill. The most ing order. Valvasone is part of “It- of the Noncello, creating a nice green ern art exhibitions. Galvani Paper Mill, and is enriched tel e fax +39 0434 898898 important monument is the castle, aly’s Most Beautiful Towns” Club. oasis that can be enjoyed especially with a pond and with the small wa- surrounded by the moat and by the in the summer months. terways that cross it. ancient walls.

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05 07 Sesto Al Reghena 10 Sacile

A town famous for its wine produc- permanent themed exhibition with of Pier Paolo with his friends and Of Roman origin, its name de- modifications. Today we can see preserves the Urn of St. Anastasia What is immediately clear, by visit- fact, there are many 16th-century is celebrated in the hall of emper- tion and because Pier Paolo Paso- unpublished family photos, paint- relatives. Do not forget the “Pier rives, as well as from the Reghena the solid entrance tower, the only (8th cent.) with geometrical pat- ing Sacile, is its indissoluble bond palaces that make Sacile a Re- ors by a cycle of frescoes by Mon- lini, one of the most important ings from Friuli, political leaflets Paolo Pasolini” Municipal Thea- river, also from its position by the one remaining of the seven de- terns strongly engraved and chia- with the river that crosses it: the naissance city par excellence: the temezzano (School of Veronese). twentieth-century Italian cultural of 1949, a precious and large col- tre, where a wide range of cultural sixth milestone along the road fence towers erected in the second roscuroed according to a refined Livenza. In several places of the Municipal Loggia, Palazzo Carli, Besides Saint Nicholas’ Cathe- figures, was born here. Today, lection of manuscripts of the pe- activities is carried out: film show- that started from Aquileia and led half of the 10th century; the bell technique of the masters from city one can still breathe a strong Palazzo Ettoreo and, above all, dral, which preserves the painting that which was his mother’s house riod he spent in Friuli, as well as ing, concerts, exhibitions and con- northwards. The small Benedic- tower, formerly a lookout tower; Cividale, a Vesperbild or Pietà of Venetian atmosphere (the title of Palazzo Ragazzoni Flangini Biglia, masterpieces by Pino Casarini, the houses the “Pier Paolo Pasolini” a valuable heritage of paper docu- ventions. tine Abbey of S. Maria in Sylvis was the chancery with a large Roman- Austrian production of the first “Garden of the Serenissima” de- built in the 16th century for the glo- small Church of the Virgin of Mer- Study Centre, which includes a ments and a rich correspondence built around the 7th century, and esque façade, the abbatial resi- half of the 15th century and an An- rives from this) consisting of a bal- ry of Giacomo Ragazzoni, a power- cy, overlooking the Livenza river, from the beginning it was made dence and the canonical house. nunciation of the last years of the anced relationship between land ful Venetian merchant who gave and Saint Gregory’s Church, which 06 San Vito al Tagliamento prestigious by Charlemagne’s do- Inside, materials and works of the thirteenth century. and water and of elegant struc- hospitality to Popes, Kings, and today houses exhibitions and cul- nations. Over the centuries the Roman, early-medieval and Gothic tures, often in a lagoon style. In Emperors. The founder’s success tural activities, are worth a visit. San Vito is a nice and elegant town, is the Town Hall, with a large gar- sance in Friuli, which preserves abbey has undergone structural periods are combined. The crypt whose medieval origin can be seen den of natural interest, the north- many frescoes by Pomponio 11 in the castle (rich in frescoes of ern barchessa (outhouse) of the Amalteo (1505-1588); the Church 08 different ages and workmanship, palace, cleverly renovated, which of the Annunciata, with a cycle of Immersed in the past and in its level, give rise to a waterway with and fauna, at whose top there is a fifteenth-century and eighteenth- houses the Provincial Museum of frescoes of the second half of the Cordovado is an ancient medi- the walls, the brick bridges and traditions, Polcenigo amazes with a considerable flow. church built before the year 1000, century decorations, representa- Rural Life; Palazzo Fancello with fourteenth century and, on the eval town that features a well-pre- the two characteristic gate towers. its combination of artistic beauties The Holy Trinity Church stands which features valuable frescoes. tions of coats of arms of San Vito frescoes by Bellunello. Among the external façade, one of the oldest served historical nucleus: the cas- In this small corner of Friuli’s and of natural elements linked to in this setting: built between the and of Friuli), in the moat, which is religious monuments one should representations of the town’s pa- tle, the area of the old St. Andrew’s plain, on the boundary with Sesto the waterways. fourteenth century and the six- still visible, and in the three towers remember: the Cathedral, dedi- tron saint. parish church and the area of the al Reghena, the famous fountain Extremely charming are the teenth century, it features a ma- Raimonda, Scaramuccia and Gri- cated to St. Vito, St. Modesto and The Municipal Theatre is a small seventeenth-century Sanctuary of of Venchiaredo, makes the feel- sources of the Gorgazzo, crystal jestic 17th-century wooden altar mana, evidence of the age of the St. Crescenzia, a real gallery of art architectural gem, in Venetian the Virgin and convent of the Do- ings and emotions evoked by Ip- clear waters that spring from a with an aedicule by Domenico communes. The palaces feature due to its richness of paintings and style, dedicated to composer Gi- minican friars, which link the old- polito Nievo in “Le Confessioni di Karst cavity, made charming by from Tolmezzo (of 1496), a pre- noteworthy architectures: for in- frescoes; the Church of S. Maria angiacomo Arrigoni from San Vito. est borough, situated in a fortified un Italiano” emerge again. Cordo- the plays of light that filter from cious wooden choir, various altar- stance, Palazzo Altan Rota, which dei Battuti, a gem of the Renais- area, to the “New Borough” built in vado is part of “Italy’s Most Beauti- the rocks. pieces and many frescoes. The the Renaissance period. It is pos- ful Towns” Club. Nearby, in an area of great natu- “Europark” Rural Park of San sible to admire the exterior of the ral and landscape interest, it is Floriano extends over an area of castle, which consists of the moat, possible to admire the large and about 65 hectares: it is the only ex- spectacular sources of the Liv- ample of natural and rural park in 09 enza river that, although emerg- Italy, a guided educational reserve ing a few dozens metres above sea that preserves precious local flora In the municipality of Brugnera, beautiful landscape effects. These buildings, together with oth- the elegant Villa Varda is a typical Moreover, the park of Villa Varda ers intended for agricultural activ- 12 Caneva and the Cansiglio example of a Venetian villa sur- features significant architectural ities, surrounded by the greenery rounded by a large park that ex- elements: the orangery, a green- of the park, were built in different Caneva is a rich and varied territo- Polcenigo, in a wetland of great na- tends along the course of the Liv- house built in the beginning of the periods and, along the tour, allow ry: it is surrounded by gentle hills ture interest on the river Livenza, enza river, marked by tree-lined twentieth century and renovated by pleasant breaks and reflections on rich in vineyards and olive groves there is the important archaeolog- avenues, flowerbeds and lawns, architect Rupolo; the seventeenth- history and on nature. and a plateau, the Cansiglio, rich ical site of Palù di Livenza, which an original interpretation of the century chapel; the icehouse, in in local botanical species. is today UNESCO World Cultural English-style romantic park. whose underground part snow and The whole municipality is scat- Heritage. Here in the Neolithic Around the gardens there are tim- ice were stored to preserve food; tered with elegant residences built (5th-4th Millennium) there was a vil- ber trees, that degrade towards a small mausoleum that contains or renovated between the nine- lage on pales or reclaimed land, thickets with plants typical of the the mortal remains of the Morpur- teenth century and the beginning probably singular in the world for low plain of Friuli, allowing the vis- gos, the owners of Villa Varda until of the twentieth century. a river/lake settlement. itor’s eyes to wander and enjoy the 1943. Beyond the Eastern border with