Gemona del Friuli

Gemona del Friuli
Country	Italy
region	Friuli Venezia Giulia
Coordinates	46 ° 17 '  N , 13 ° 8'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 16 '46 "  N , 13 ° 8' 16"  E
height	272  m slm
surface	56 km²
Residents	10,778 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	192 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	33013
prefix	0432
ISTAT number	030043
Popular name	Gemonesi
Patron saint	Santa Maria Assunta (June 13th)
Website	Gemona del Friuli
The cathedral in the old town of Gemona

Gemona del Friuli ( Friulian Glemone , Slovenian humic , German Klemaun ) is an Italian municipality with 10,778 inhabitants (December 31, 2019).

geography

Gemona del Friuli lies on the course of the Tagliamento , north of Udine and at the southern exit of the Canal Valley . The place spreads out at the foot of the Monte Chiampon massif .

history

In the Middle Ages, Gemona was an independent commune under the rule of the Patriarch of Aquileia . It has belonged to Venice since 1420 .

On May 6, 1976, Friuli , located in an earthquake prone area, was hit by a major earthquake , the epicenter of which was near Gemona. It reached a value of 6.5 on the Richter scale and 965 people died. Gemona and the neighboring communities of Venzone and Osoppo were badly destroyed. The right aisle and the campanile of the famous cathedral Santa Maria Assunta (Holy Mary Assumption) collapsed. In the meantime everything has been rebuilt as well as possible, including the campanile (bell tower). In the cathedral since standing earthquake the columns wrong something.

Attractions

• Gemona has a beautiful old town
• Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta: The cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta is a remarkable sacred building. Begun in the 13th century, the cathedral was consecrated in 1337. On the facade are remarkable Romanesque sculptures by Giovanni Bono from Bissone . To the right of the portal the oversized Christophorus .

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  Town hall in Gemona (right)

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  Cathedral of S. Maria Assunta in Gemona

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  Christophorus on the cathedral facade

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  Portal of the church ruin "Beata Vergine delle Grazie", destroyed by the earthquake of May 6, 1976

traffic

The Gemona del Friuli station is at the junction of the Gemona del Friuli – Sacile railway line from the Pontafelbahn .

Town twinning

• Foligno , Italy , since 2001
• Laakirchen in Upper Austria , since 2000
• Velden am Wörthersee in Carinthia , Austria, since 1958 on the initiative of the then mayor Prof. Heinrich Ebner. Valentin Petritsch, the former mayor (1973–1997) of Velden am Wörthersee, was made an honorary citizen of Gemona in 2006.

Sons and daughters of the church

• Simone Padoin (* 1984), soccer player
• Sebastian Colloredo (* 1987), ski jumper.
• Ilaria Mauro (* 1988), soccer player

literature

• Roberta Costantini, Fulvio Dell'Agnese, Micol Duca, Antonella Favaro, Monica Nicoli, Alessio Pasian: Friuli-Venezia Giulia. I luoghi dell'arte. Bruno Fachin Editore, Triest 1998, pp. 199–203.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
2. ↑ Bono, Buono, de Bono. In: Historical-Biographical Lexicon of Switzerland . Volume 2, p. 306 ( PDF on biblio.unibe.ch; accessed on June 28, 2017).

Web links

Commons : Gemona del Friuli  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Gemona municipality (Italian)