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Official website. 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 name comes from Latin Portus Naonis, meaning "port on the Noncello River".
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The mayor of Pordenone is an elected politician who, along with the Pordenone's City Council, is accountable for the strategic government of Pordenone in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy. The current Mayor is Alberto Parigi of Fratelli d'Italia, former vice mayor who assumed office on 1 July 2024 when previous mayor Alessandro Ciriani was elected ...
Palazzo Ricchieri, Pordenone. The Palazzo Ricchieri is a palace in central Pordenone, located on Corso Vittorio Emanuele II number 51, across from the Palazzo della Comune of the city. It now serves as the Museo Civico d'Arte di Pordenone . Palace Facade.
Cordenons ( Friulian: Cordenòns) is a comune (municipality) in the Regional decentralization entity of Pordenone in the Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, located about 90 kilometres (56 mi) northwest of Trieste and about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) northeast of Pordenone. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 17,738 and an area of 56 ...
Pordenone railway station ( Italian: Stazione di Pordenone) serves the city and comune of Pordenone, in the autonomous region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, northeastern Italy. Opened in 1855, the station is located on the Venice–Udine railway. Although it is not a junction or terminal station, it is used by a great many passengers.