Guide to the City Corso Vittorio Emanuele and Corso Garibaldi
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HOW AND WHERE HOW and to some of the most beautiful towns of its province its of towns beautiful most the of some to and Tourist map and guide to the city the to guide and map Tourist Corso Vittorio PORDENONE Emanuele and Corso Garibaldi 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 AUSTRIA AUSTRIA Tour to the discovery of the two avenues and of their palaces Arta Terme Tarvisio A23 and cornices of moulded stone. Tolmezzo The Gothic arcade has two arches, Gemona a central column with capital and del Friuli SLOVENIA Dolomiti Friulane Europa pillars on both sides. On two or- ders, the decoration with mock San Daniele Cividale Piancavallo del Friuli del Friuli Regione Spilimbergo Friuli Venezia Giulia damask tapestry is characterised UDINE SLOVENIA Palù di Livenza by great chromatism. On the pan- PORDENONE Italia els of columns on the sides three Palmanova GORIZIA A28 friezes act as a string-course with A4 TREVISO Aeroporto FVG A4 Ronchi dei Legionari masks, dolphins, mermaids, tri- Aquileia Palazzo Ricchieri tons and hippogriffs. At the centre, VENEZIA at n. 51 (14th cent.) knotted to the nail by a ribbon, the Casa Vianello SLOVENIA Lignano Grado TRIESTE It houses the Art Museum and is Gregoris coat of arms with the ini- also called Palazzo dei Capitani Sabbiadoro situated next to the Town Hall and tials of Francesco stands out. (15th cent.) (Palazzo Varmo - - Aquileia - - Dolomiti Friulane - - Cividale del Friuli - - Palù di Livenza - to St. Mark’s Co-Cathedral. On Pomo) - at n. 45 O the first and on the second floor, IO I M The palace is on three floors, plus M N ON U O UN ONIO MU NIO M M N IM D M N O UN I D R I D IM D R I T IA R I R T A T A T IA A L A L A L • A L • P P • P • • • P • W W • W W L L L L O O A O A A O A I I I R R I R R D D L L D L D L D D N N D N D N O O H O H H O in the south-eastern side rooms H the garret, with a three-arched E M E M E M R R E M E I E R E R IT T N I I E A IN A I TA IN T N G O G O G O A I E • IM E • IM E • M G O PATR PATR PATRI E • PATRIM United Nations Archaeological Area and United Nations The Dolomites United Nations Longobards in Italy. United Nations Prehistoric Pile dwellings quite large fragments of Gothic portico. The size of the left arch, Educational, Scientific and the Patriarchal Basilica of Aquileia Educational, Scientific and inscribed on the World Educational, Scientific and Places of the power (568-774 A.D.) Educational, Scientific and around the Alps Cultural Organization inscribed on the World Cultural Organization Heritage List in 2009 Cultural Organization inscribed on the World Cultural Organization inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1998 Heritage List in 2011 Heritage List in 2011 wall paintings were found, which wider than the others, causes to made up several decorative cycles, believe that the building is the where representations of allego- result of the joining of two dwell- HOW TO GET THERE ries or battle and duel scenes pre- ing units. The neat architectural BY CAR BY PLANE BY TRAIN vail. 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 - Conegliano 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 Tagliamento _ 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 Veneto, 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-Aviano (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.