The revived town of Venzone in Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy

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The disastrous earthquake of 1976 virtually destroyed the medieval town of Venzone, knocking down walls, churches, palaces and houses. A little more than twenty years later Venzone has largely recovered but his face, by restructuring the urban fabric and essential to the reconstruction of its most emblematic buildings. Is being rebuilt, anastylosis, including the imposing Cathedral, built in local stone in the early fourteenth century on the site of an existing church built by the feudal lord Glizoio expand in 1251. As a sculptor, of course, but perhaps as an architect, had worked well that teacher John who had designed a few years before the cathedral of Gemona. Bertrand consecrated by the patriarch in 1338, had a Latin cross plan with a spacious nave and transept with three apses terminating the cross vault, lit by tall, narrow, elegant windows. The outside of this article with polygonal apses is reinforced in the corners by buttresses culminating with pyramidal pinnacles and statues: solutions to suspect that the cooperation of Nordic workers. Interesting were the three portals, including valuable also from the architectural point of view the northern part of a slightly overhanging gable projecting from the side of the church and enriched by a strict sculptural works dating from 1308, by the hand of Master Giovanni, an artist connected yet the Roman tradition (predilection for frontal vision, rigor of form, the drapery dry), well noticeable feature in the lunette with Christ blessing. At the same teacher was assigned the southern portal, with the Coronation of the Virgin in relief, while his other hand and another culture was the Crucifixion of the main portal, the second half of the thirteenth century, spiritual identification and processing plastic evoked distant memories Antelami

Pumpkin festival

From Sunday, October 28, 2007 to Sunday, October 28, 2007
Takes place in Venzone (Udine - Italy)
The enchanting magic of the old town lit by torches and candles and peopled by nobles, and precludes tabernieri, shopkeepers, merchants and common people of the fourteenth century.