| Socchieve | ||
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| State | Italy | |
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| Region | Friuli Venezia Giulia | |
| Territory | Carnia | |
| Altitude | 486 m a.s.l. | |
| Surface | 66.12 km² | |
| Inhabitants | 888 (2019) | |
| Name inhabitants | Socchievini | |
| Prefix tel | 39 0433 | |
| POSTAL CODE | 33020 | |
| Time zone | UTC 1 | |
| Patron | Santa Maria Annunziata and San Martino (2 August, 15 August, 11 November) | |
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Socchieve is a center of the Friuli Venezia Giulia.
To know
It is a scattered municipality as the municipal seat is not located in the locality of the same name, but in the hamlet of Mediis. Authentic villages of Italy.
Background
Its name derives from '' sub clivio '', under the hill, meaning the hill on which the Pieve di Castoia stands.
The town was probably formed in medieval times on previous settlements that exploited the '' lookout '' position on the Tagliamento valley.
Between the twelfth and thirteenth centuries the village was equipped with a castle, which was then demolished during the dominion of the Patriarchate of Aquileia to allow the construction of the church of San Martino.
How to orient yourself
Socchieve: full screen map.Its municipal territory includes the villages of Dilignidis, Feltrone, Lungis, Mediis, Nonta, Priuso, Socchieve and Viaso, as well as the localities of Chiamesans and Siega.
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What see
Parish of Castoia
- 1 Parish church of Santa Maria Annunziata in Castoia. It is located on the homonymous hill overlooking the town of Socchieve. The first known church on the Castoia hill probably dates back to the 6th century: a small building dedicated to Santo Stefano, built because the mother church of Invillino was too far away. A century later another, smaller church was built next to this church, dedicated to St. Michael the Archangel and probably a cemetery. Finally, around the ninth or tenth century a third church dedicated to Santa Maria dell'Angelo was built on the hill, which had the title of parish and therefore also its baptismal font. : The three churches continued to exist, with numerous renovations, until July 28, 1700 when a strong earthquake damaged all three buildings. It was then decided to rebuild only the church of Santa Maria which was restored and enlarged reaching its current size. Further modifications were set aside inside the church in the mid-19th century. In 1940, following a vow made by the population so that the lord would save them from the "misfortunes" that loomed on the horizon, work began on the construction of the frescoes that adorn the ceiling of the nave and the cycle of saints that decorate the walls. side (made by the painter Giovanni Moro, signed and dated in various places). Finally, for the jubilee of 2000, a rose window was opened in the wall of the apse overlooking the main altar, which represents Christ blessing.
- The church has three naves and a quadrangular apse. The high altar, dating back to the first half of the eighteenth century, has a canvas in the center, created by Nicolò Grassi, depicting the Madonna of the angels and on the sides there are two marble statues depicting Mary herself and the Archangel Gabriel (both dated 1836). The baptismal font, perhaps the original one of the ancient church, is located next to the main door, in the right aisle; it is surmounted by a complex inlaid wooden protection from the 19th century which partially covers a fresco depicting the baptism of Jesus.
- In the same nave there is a small altar dedicated to St. Francis (which houses a 19th century wooden statue depicting the saint of Assisi), a canvas depicting the Madonna surrounded by angels (dating back to the 17th century) and, at the bottom, a altar bearing a nineteenth-century painting on canvas depicting the saints Pietro, Michele and Antonio abate.
- In the left aisle, starting from the main entrance, you can find a nineteenth-century painting depicting St. John the Evangelist with the saints Lucia and Apollonia, a small altar with the stone statue of the virgin with the child and, at the bottom, an altar in which preserves a wooden Madonna from 1912 made by the Tyrolean sculptor Ferdinando Demetz and traditionally carried in procession during the feast of the Assumption. Next to the parish church there is the bell tower and a cemetery in use until the early twentieth century and still partially intact. At the entrance of the road that leads to the church there is a small votive shrine (called Maina in somp da Cleva) completely frescoed by Gianfrancesco da Tolmezzo.
Parish church of San Martino
- 2 Church of San Martino. The church of San Martino overlooks Socchieve from the top of a small hill in the center of the town. The building owes its fame above all to the well-known cycle of frescoes, created at the end of the 15th century by the painter Gianfrancesco da Tolmezzo (originally from the same place, born around 1450).
- The first religious building on the hill probably dates back to the 7th or 11th century: it was then enlarged in two phases, respectively in the 14th and NRL 15th centuries. Also based on the cycle of frescoes dating back to the thirteenth century, it can be assumed that the sacristy corresponded to the choir of the ancient medieval building. The current presbytery, originally, must have been the hall instead (this aspect is confirmed by the fragments present). Most of the interior decoration is from the Renaissance period, the work of Gianfrancesco da Tolmezzo (both the cycle of frescoes in the hall and the choir and the altarpiece belong to his hand). More recent elements are a clock, dating back to the nineteenth century and various wooden furnishings, attributable to the same period or to the eighteenth century.
- Like the other churches in the area, San Martino has always played a branch role with respect to the nearby parish church of Castoia. Fortunately, the 1976 earthquake did not irreparably ruin the works in the building: several restoration campaigns promoted by the Superintendency have taken place over the years: that of the cycle of frescoes, held in the eighties, and that of the altarpiece, which took place in 1990.
- The current appearance of the church of San Martino dates back for the most part to the 15th century, a time when the structure of the original building was radically changed. The areas of the hall, the sacristy and the choir of the church are generally considered almost unchanged since the Renaissance period. The external portico and the bell gable date back to the seventeenth century. The facade of the small building is completely covered with stone left in its raw state. The side walls and the back instead turn out to be completely white.
- The pictorial cycle of the church is dated 1493 and signed by Gianfrancesco da Tolmezzo himself; his is also the famous polyptych preserved in this same building and left unfinished by the painter at the time of his death in 1511, then completed by another author in 1513.
- The cycle of San Martino covers the terminal part of the long walls of the hall, the entire context of the arch of access to the presbytery and entirely the latter environment. The cycle of San Martino is considered to allude to the Mystery of the Redemption. Going in order, the first representations encountered by anyone who decides to visit the church are the two scenes in the hall, "San Nicola and the Trinity" (left side) and "San Martino with the poor" (right side). At the base of the arch are represented on the left "San Sebastiano" and on the right "San Rocco"; above, as usual, the "Annunciation" is depicted. In the intrados of the arch there are instead represented half-lengths of eight holy martyrs (on the left side: sant'Orsola, sant'Agata, santa Barbara, santa Dorotea; on the right side: santa Marta, santa Apollonia, santa Lucia, santa Caterina d 'Alexandria). In the lower register of the choir the Apostles are represented, dominated in the upper left by the figure of the Redeemer. On the top of the back wall the "Nativity" on the right and the "Announcement to the shepherds" on the left. On the cross vault of the choir are represented the four Doctors of the Western Church (Gregory, Augustine, Ambrose and Jerome) accompanied at the bottom by various half-length figures, mainly representing prophets. The aforementioned polyptych dominates the center of the choir.
- The medieval decoration inside the building is also very interesting: several fragments can be observed in a large part of the choir plinth and in the entire small room that currently serves as a sacristy. Inside that room a "Theory of Apostles" is represented along the long walls. On the top of the back wall is represented the "Mystic Lamb", with two peacock figures placed at the sides. In the center of the vault the Christ is represented enclosed within an Almond and around it the symbols (only partially visible, otherwise intuitive) of the four evangelists are depicted. On the front of the entrance arch there is also an additional decoration. In the base of the choir one can instead observe part of the representations of some saints and a long decorative band characterized by the representation of spirals and birds. At the bottom, there are finally some waves, which also occur in the sacristy.
- Other elements worthy of mention are the nineteenth-century "Crucifix" placed on the top of the arch leading to the presbytery and the fifteenth-century "Paliotto" that can be seen at the base of the altarpiece.
- The polyptych of San Martino it is the decorative centerpiece of the church. It is a poplar wood structure, consisting of a gilded frame and six compartments with some figures. The representations are of different sizes, larger in the lower part and smaller in the upper part. Below are depicted "San Sebastiano", "San Martino with the poor" and "San Rocco". In the upper part there are instead the representations of "San Michele arcangelo", of the "Virgin with the Child" and of "San Lorenzo". As usual, the scenes that stand out the most are the one concerning the life of the titular saint and the Marian representation that dominates it. Those depicting the other saints are instead more marginal, divided into two pairs of squares of equal size.
- 3 Church of San Biagio (to Mediis). It is ascertained that a church stood in Mediis as early as the beginning of the fourteenth century. The current one was built in the 15th century. The sacristy was built in the 17th century and the small church was restored in 1872. In 1967 the roof of the building was rebuilt and the church was restored following the 1976 Friuli earthquake. It was rededicated on 11 August 1989.
- It has a rectangular plan with a square-plan presbytery and a sacristy to the right of it. In many respects it is similar to San Martino di Socchieve. The elegant portico that precedes it is from the 18th century, with a three-pitched roof, supported by pillars resting on a low wall. To the left of the access steps there are two stone elements, the lower of which bears the date of 1502. The façade is completed by the mullioned bell tower, of the Baroque type, of worked stones. Inside, the hall is separated from the choir by a stone arch and an arch also divides it from a chapel on the right. There is a carved stone stoup with a black stone basin. In the choir were found frescoes representing the Fathers of the Church, above; along the walls other little recognizable subjects, except for two figures, on the left, next to the window. There is also a wooden altar with doors, probably by Michael Parth da Brunico, circa 1545. It contains statues in the round: the Madonna and Child, between San Biagio and San Floriano. The doors instead bear bas-reliefs depicting Sant'Antonio Abate and San Mauro. On the painted predella, Christ rising between the Madonna and San Giovanni. Outside the doors bear two painted saints.
- Church of San Giacomo (in Priuso).
- Church of San Giovanni Battista.
- Church of San Giovanni Decollato (in Viaso).
- Church of San Maurizio (in Nonta).
- Church of Saints Vito, Modesto and Crescenzia (in Feltrone).
- (near Caprizzi). Remains still clearly visible of a huge landslide which centuries ago obliterated the town of Borta and which, blocking the waters of the Tagliamento, produced a natural lake,
- Dam on the Tagliamento river. It captures most of the waters of the Tagliamento river and sends them to the lake-reservoir of Verzegnis, forming a lake upstream.
- Waterfall of the Grasia stream (just upstream of the dam).
Events and parties
What to do
Shopping
How to have fun
Where to eat
Average prices
- 1 Risorgimento - tavern with kitchen, Via Marconi, 22 (in Priuso), ☎ 39 0433 80009, @[email protected].
- 2 Osteria di Nonta, Via San Maurizio, 1 (in Nonta), ☎ 39 0433 80596.
- 3 Alla Stella restaurant, Via Nazionale, 9 (in Socchieve), ☎ 39 0433 80100, @[email protected].
Where stay
Average prices
- 1 Farmhouse in Glà, via Bellini 35 (in Lungis), ☎ 39 0433 80394.
- 2 Albergo Diffuso Col Gentile Socchieve, Via Guglielmo Marconi, 1 / A, ☎ 39 0433 819934.
Safety
- 1 Danelon Pharmacy, Via Roma, 22 / A, ☎ 39 433 80137.
How to keep in touch
Post office
- 2 Italian post, Via Roma, 18, ☎ 39 0433 80857.
Around
Itineraries
- Churches of Carnia - Ten ancient parish churches that were once not only centers of worship but also seats of civil power.
