Churches
the hidden treasures of Slavia Friulana
Dabs of white on the summits of green and wooded mountains: this is how the numerous votive churches scattered across the territory of the Natisone Valleys/Nediške Doline appear to the eyes of the tourist who glimpses them from afar. It is worth approaching these true monuments of architecture and sacred art from the 12th to the 16th century, often embellished by skilled artists of Slovenian school.
Stone, wood, gold: these are the materials with which the faith of the westernmost Slavs of Europe is plastically rendered.
Stone
Stone is what characterises the facades of these buildings, rough, hard, and rooted on the slopes of these mountains like the soul of the mountaineers, but it is also the sculpted and chiseled stone of the interiors, where angelic faces, now ecstatically turned towards paradise, now with suffering, patience, and participation in human events, project the visitor and the pilgrim into the spiritual imagination of the Slavic world.
Wood
Wood is the simple and humble one of the exposed beams and the tiles that embellish the roofs, but also that sumptuously carved wood of the altars, true and proper treatises of "plastic" and popular theology, through the representation of the lives of Saints and biblical episodes.
Gold
Gold is the precious substance that characterises many of the splendid altars of these votive chapels. However, if we abandon the material and superficial level, a visit to these extraordinary places of spirituality can reveal an even more precious metal, forged over millennia: the ancient wisdom of knowing how to live of a people who were at the same time peasant (deeply rooted in a barren land but from which they knew how to draw the best), warrior (because they defended the borders of the Serenissima Republic of Venice in exchange for wide autonomy) but also open to distant worlds through small trades (the so-called Guziranje, which extended eastwards to the extremes of Russia).
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Chiesette di san Martino vescovo
Craoretto
Santuario di Castelmonte
Castelmonte
Chiesetta di San Volfango
Drenchia
Chiesetta di San Giusto
Scrutto
Chiesetta dei Santissimi Pietro e Paolo Apostoli
Centa
Chiesetta di Santo Spirito
Albana
Chiesetta di Santo Spirito
Chiesetta di Santi Primo e Feliciano
Vernassino
Chiesetta di Santi Ermacora e Fortunato
Cialla
Chiesetta di Santa Lucia
Brizza di Savogna
Chiesetta di Sant’Antonio Abate
Merso Superiore
Chiesetta di San Zenone
Rodda
Chiesetta di San Silvestro
Merso di sotto
Chiesetta di San Pietro Apostolo
San Pietro di Chiazzacco
Chiesetta di San Paolo Apostolo
Cernetig
Chiesetta di San Nicolò Vescovo
Pegliano
Chiesetta di San Nicolò
Cladrecis
Chiesetta di San Nicolò
Sorzento
Chiesetta di San Nicolò
Iainich
Chiesetta di San Michele Arcangelo
Pechinie
Chiesetta di San Mattia Apostolo
Costne
Chiesetta di San Martino
Canalaz di Liessa
Chiesetta di San Lorenzo Martire
Mersino Alto
Chiesetta di San Leonardo Abate
Ossiach/Osjak di Rodda
Chiesetta di San Leonardo Abate
San Leonardo
Chiesetta di San Giovanni Battista
Antro
Chiesetta di San Giovanni Battista
Tribil Inferiore
Chiesetta di San Giacomo Apostolo
Biacis
Chiesetta di San Donato
Lasiz
Chiesetta di San Bartolomeo Apostolo
Clastra
Chiesetta di San Bartolomeo
Vernasso - Barnas
Chiesetta di Sant’Ulderico in Monte
Rodda
Chiesetta di San Tommaso Apostolo
Codromaz
Chiesetta di San Quirino
San Pietro al Natisone
Chiesetta di Santa Lucia Vergine e Martire
Fragelis
Chiesetta di Santa Lucia
Cravero
Chiesetta di San Luca Evangelista
Tiglio
Chiesetta di San Giacomo Apostolo di Corte
Albana
Chiesetta di San Bartolomeo Apostolo
Ciubiz
Chiesetta di Sant’Antonio Abate
Clenia
Chiesetta di Sant’Antonio da Padova
Oborza
Chiesetta Santa Dorotea
Ponteacco
Chiesetta di Sant’Andrea Apostolo
Cravero
Chiesetta di Sant’Abramo Eremita
Altana
Chiesetta dei Tre Re
Prepotischis
Oratorio di Santa Giustina
Albana
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