Artegna

Artegna
Country	Italy
region	Friuli Venezia Giulia
Coordinates	46 ° 14 ′  N , 13 ° 9 ′  E Coordinates: 46 ° 14 ′ 0 ″  N , 13 ° 9 ′ 0 ″  E
height	210  m slm
surface	11.23 km²
Residents	2,885 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density	257 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	33011
prefix	0432
ISTAT number	030006
Popular name	Arteniesi
Website	Artegna

Artegna (German historically: Ardingen ) is a municipality southeast of Gemona del Friuli , north of Udine in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region with 2885 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019).

The neighboring municipalities are Buja , Gemona del Friuli , Magnano in Riviera , Montenars and Treppo Grande .

In 1976 Friuli , located in an earthquake-prone area, was hit by an earthquake whose epicenter was between Gemona del Friuli and Osoppo .

A partnership agreement exists with the municipality of Breitenbach SO (Switzerland). After the Second World War , many men from Artegna found work there. The ISOLA-Werke in Breitenbach even sent a delegation in 1956 to recruit "Arteniesi".

Fort

Attractions

• Castle (Il Castelletto)
• Parish Church of the Holy Mary Nativity (S. Maria Nascente)
• Church of St. Martin (Chiesetta di S. Martino)
• Votive Church of St. Stephen (Chiesetta votiva di S. Stefano)

Parish Church of the Holy Mary Nativity

Pope visit

On May 3, 1992, Pope John Paul II visited Artegna and gave his blessing to the population. To commemorate this event, a year later a blue-gray marble plaque with an inscription and a Pope medallion was attached to a house at the foot of the castle hill.

literature

• Roberta Costantini, Fulvio Dell'Agnese, Micol Duca, Antonella Favaro, Monica Nicoli, Alessio Pasian: Friuli-Venezia Giulia. I luoghi dell'arte , pp. 165-166; Bruno Fachin Editore, Trieste.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
2. ↑ https://archive.org/stream/bub_gb_7Z9DAAAAYAAJ/bub_gb_7Z9DAAAAYAAJ_djvu.txt
3. ↑ BREITENBACHinfos, 50th edition, August 2011