Top 3 Natural Monuments around Prata Di Pordenone

a clear octagon in the middle of the plain: outside a always useful fountain. Inside, the surprise of a modern church that encloses a millenary history, which you can find described next to the door. Santa Maria in Palù or della fontanella, is a protector of those with vision problems: this explains the evangelical citation of the blind man from the pool of Siloam, which is found inside, behind the altar

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where the Monticano flows into the Livenza. The track is new, just widened and well beaten

Here we have reached the end of the descent of the Monticano river to the confluence with the Livenza river.

The church of S. Maria della Fontanella was built in the place where centuries ago, I don't know when, a convent of monks stood. Let's not forget that it was a short distance from the Church of the "Knights of the Temple" of which the small village Tempio keeps the memory. This convent sank underground due to an earthquake. “It sank and how? Because? Because the area was and still is impregnated with water. The municipality is Fontanelle, a name that reveals the presence of many water sources. It was swampy terrain; for this, I think, the convent and the church were swallowed up. The church was called for this reason: "Santa Maria del Palù". But now the area is cultivated in a superlative form; and therefore it is good to call it "Santa Maria della Fontanella". Under the altar stood and still stands a fountain that gave and which gives its clear and fresh water: a symbol of that water of which Jesus spoke: "whoever is thirsty, come to me and drink". Don Emilio Girelli had the good idea of reviving that past, the ruins of which are five or six meters deep, as far as I have heard. Don Emilio, therefore, had the current and pretty octagonal church built. And my mother, she told me, was so eager to attend the inauguration on March 25, 1924. But she couldn't: I was in her womb. I was born on March 27, two days later. This is why I consider it a bit my little church. And my mother who knows how fervently she will have prayed for me, not yet born. And Our Lady was good to her and to me. I was parish priest in Jafa di Nazareth, a suburb of Nazareth, for forty-two years. I love to attribute this grace to my mother's prayers: and so Our Lady took me from S. Maria della Fontanella to her village where she truly received the announcement of the archangel Gabriel. I also want to remember that Jafa di Nazaret, according to tradition, is the native town of S. Giovanni and S. Giacomo, patron saint of the Church of Colfrancui, where I was baptized on March 31, 1924. I have seen and heard that S. Maria delle Fontanella is very venerated. I always saw it full of fresh flowers and candles. I remember that when I was little, under the age of five, many people came to our house, to be able to take holy water from under the altar. One day my mother sent me to fill a bottle of this water for a woman who stayed with her. I returned with the empty bottle and told her: "Mom, the water is deep. and I almost fell into it ”. Mom put her hands on her frightened face and said: "But what did I do?". I did not fall because Our Lady was waiting for me in Nazareth.

The Lia river ends here: it delivers its waters to the Monticano and in turn leaves them to the Livenza to reach the sea. The Lia is an ancient river that marks the territory. Born in what is now the Gambrinus park (that of the shrimp of this river), you can cross it under the bridge of the Church of the Templars of Ormelle and you can hardly follow its meanders in Colfrancui. Here you can greet its waters and its millenary memory of this territory

The new cycle and pedestrian path has been opened that connects the Seminary park to the Roman baths of Torre. The track starts from the new 30-meter bridge over the Noncello built right inside the Seminary park, continues for about 800 meters in the heart of a hitherto inaccessible Noncello naturalistic area, comes out and continues along via Terme Romane and Bellasio, at border between Pordenone and Cordenons, for a total of 1.7 new kilometers for the mobility of pedestrians and two wheels.

An extraordinary natural floodplain spread over six hundred hectares of stable lawn. Considering their naturalistic and faunal value, the Prà dei Gai have been declared a protected area by the European Community and included in the territorial development project of the LAG 5. In the past decades, the Prà lands were municipal and at the dawn of spring, with a public auction, the local farmers won small plots for grazing and harvesting hay.