th
# 63 • June 28 , 2015
The Fagagna village is actually
made up of seven ancient and
separate suburbs that construction development put together in a single urban centre
over the last decades, extending spaces of the countryside
to new buildings. Like other
areas in the north-east, here
progress made its mark on
ancient rural physiognomy as
well: modern roof tiles, aluminum gates, incongruous plasterworks, internal emptying,
newly constructed floors on
buildings, cobblestone pavements replaced by asphalt cement.
Luckily, there is
reversal of this
trend, and Fagagna has also
decided to rally
its soul. The first
step is to restore
the old cobblestone pavements
that will allow to
combine a fascinating route connecting the village square, the
castle, small rural
church and arriving, through
the forest, to a small military
pillbox that is about to be transformed into a small museum.
Even now, leaving the municipality building, you can go up
towards hill where the castle is
located through an old paved
road (vicolo Morcjùte and via
Cecconaia street).
On the top, there are Palazzo
della Comunità palace, which was the administrative and
judicial headquarters of the
Fragagna community since the
beginning of the 16th century
until 1797, and the castle ruins, mals, of must because wine is
the oldest part of which is from being produced, of carbon in
the 11th century.
the forge, the fragrance of baked bread and flour in the mill.
Going through another paved There are ladies making lace,
street, via Salizzada, you arrive those who are using a spindle,
at Pieve di Santa Maria Assunta a miller, a smith and finally, a
church. It was built, perhaps on glass of wine waiting for us in
some preexisting paleochri- the tavern.
stian ruins, in the 13th century
and its bell tower that shyly You can re-emerge into the
appears behind castle, has past, but immediately return to
been watching over the village the present by entering a small
for centuries. From the chur- Church of S.Leonardo (14th
ch, passing along panoramic century) with its evanescent
street such as via dei Tigli and frescoes of the 14th century.
via della Pieve, you arrive at a Again, we face an ancient small
small fortified house dating to path (vicolo degli Orzinutti), a
the 14th century and finally to pair of other streets (in via Umberto I street there is
Palazzo Nigris palace(18th century) and
the we arrive again
at the town square.
From the municipality building we now
take another route,
towards Borgo Paludo. Once you’ve passed by Asquini and
Pico palaces( the first
was the residence of
a noble family, built
in the 17th century;
the Museum of a farmer’s life the other is a type of factory
housed within Cjase Cocèl, a building, where once tobacco
typical country home of Friuli was treated), you arrive at the
of the 17th century.
old district, where you can see
Palazzo Pecile (18th century)
Here, a long pause is manda- and a line of old houses with
tory because this is, perhaps, nice main entranceways (Via
the most lively, the most real Paludo and Via Lucca).
and complete museum of a
farmer’s daily life in Italy. All ro- From Via Paludo you can turn
oms from the Friulan memory back to the castle and to the
are recreated; from to kitchen church to leave, passing throuwith its fogolâr , to the bedro- gh a panoramic road (Daûr
om set as a barn. The smells are Glesie road) to a small pilremarkable: those of stables lbox from World War I and
signifying the presence of ani- from there, following the road
WE THE ITALIANS | 45
www.wetheitalians.com