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Pordenone (Italian: [pordeˈnoːne] ⓘ; Venetian and Friulian: Pordenon) is a city and comune (municipality) in the Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, the capital of the Regional decentralization entity of Pordenone.
The province of Pordenone ( Italian: provincia di Pordenone; Friulian: provincie di Pordenon; Venetian: provincia de Pordenon) was a province in the autonomous region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy, subdivided from the province of Udine in 1968. Its capital was the city of Pordenone. The province was abolished on 30 September 2017; [2] it was ...
Aviano. / 46.067°N 12.583°E / 46.067; 12.583. Aviano ( Friulian: Davian; Cimbrian: Pleif) is a town and comune (municipality) in the Regional decentralization entity of Pordenone at the foot of the Dolomites mountain range in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, northeast Italy . Aviano is home to the C.R.O. ( Centro di Riferimento Oncologico ...
Sacile ( Italian: [saˈtʃiːle]; Venetian: Sathìl [saˈθil], Liventino: Sacìl [saˈtʃil]; Western Friulian: Sacîl) is a comune (municipality) in the Regional decentralization entity of Pordenone, in the Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia. It is known as the "Garden of the Serenissima " after the many palaces that were constructed ...
The parish church of Prata, part of the diocese of Concordia-Pordenone, is a building built, or rather enlarged, in 1772, with a neoclassical facade marked by four semi-columns with Ionic capitals. Inside, in the high altar, two statues by the Venetian sculptor Bartolomeo Modolo, depicting the Saints Lucia and Giacomo (1748), an altarpiece with ...
Odoric of Pordenone[ a] (c. 1280–14 January 1331) was a Franciscan friar and missionary explorer from Friuli in northeast Italy. He journeyed through India, Sumatra, Java, and China, where he spent three years in the imperial capital of Khanbaliq (now Beijing). After more than ten years of travel, he returned home and dictated a narrative of ...
Pordenone, Il Pordenone in Italian, is the byname of Giovanni Antonio de’ Sacchis ( c. 1484 – 14 January 1539), an Italian Mannerist painter, loosely of the Venetian school. Vasari, his main biographer, wrongly identifies him as Giovanni Antonio Licinio. He painted in several cities in northern Italy "with speed, vigor, and deliberate ...
He is thus often depicted in art with this apostle. The cathedral at Feltre is dedicated to him and Saint Peter the Apostle, and the artist Il Pordenone (c. 1483 - 1539) created a work depicting Prosdocimus with Peter. There is a bronze statue of Prosdocimus (c. 1447) by Donatello in the Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua in Padua.