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7 unusual facts about Pordenone


Jan Reynst

After his death the Roman statues and Italian paintings by Barocci, Bassano, Bellini, Paris Bordone, Pordenone, Palma Vecchio Giorgione, Lorenzo Lotto, Parmigianino, Guido Reni, Giulio Romano, Tintoretto, Titian, Andrea Schiavone, Perugino, Antonello da Messina and Paolo Veronese were shipped to his brother in Amsterdam.

Menocchio

Menocchio's literacy may be accounted for by the establishment of schools in the villages surrounding Friuli: Aviano and Pordenone.

Menocchio, also known as Domenico Scandella (1532–1599), was an Italian miller born in the village of Montereale, twenty-five kilometers north of Pordenone (not to be confused with Montereale, Abruzzo).

Pellegrino II of Aquileia

He continued his war against Treviso, laying siege to Pordenone, but was defeated in 1201 by the League at Tagliamento.

Tre Allegri Ragazzi Morti

Tre allegri ragazzi morti (Three happy dead boys, in Italian) is an Italian indie rock band formed in Pordenone, Friuli Venezia Giulia, in 1994.

Guitarist and comic artist Davide Toffolo started to play music in the late '70s, when Pordenone became one of the most important cities for the Italian punk rock scene, due to its closeness to the American military base of Aviano.

Zanussi

The 26-year-old son of a blacksmith in Pordenone in Northeastern Italy began the business by making home stoves and wood-burning ovens.


Attilio Celant

“Premio San Marco” (San Marco Prize), sponsored by Accademia San Marco in Pordenone (Italy), awarded to Prof. Celant as "an example to follow and reference point for both the national and international academic world".

Davide Toffolo

When Davide Toffolo started to play music, his native town Pordenone was already one of the most important cities for the Italian punk rock scene which emerged in the late 1970s because of the closeness of the American military base in Aviano.

Due Ancore

The Due Ancore brand is produced by the Coltellerie Marcello Beltrame, a knife commercial manufacturer and distributor operating in the town of Maniago, in the Province of Pordenone, Italy.

Friuli-Venezia Giulia wine

Smaller regions such as the Annia, Aquileia, Grave and Latisana are located in the central and western part of the region around the city of Pordenone.

Giovanni Maria Zaffoni

He also painted frescoes in the church of Santissima Trinità in Pordenone, as well as in Montereale Valcellina, where he painted a series of frescoes on the Life of the Virgin (1560-63) in the apse of the church of San Rocco.

Ronche

Ronche, in the Fontanafredda municipality in Pordenone province in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region

Sacile 1809 order of battle

The battle at Sacile was preceded by the action of Pordenone on 15 April in which the Austrian advance guard mauled the French rear guard.


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