Patron saint festival In 25 days
Feast of Saint Martin
📅 Every year, on 11 November
On 11 November San Martino al Tagliamento celebrates the patron after whom the town is named, to whom the parish church is dedicated.
On the outer wall of the parish church there is an enormous Saint Christopher, frescoed by Pordenone in 1518 and by now almost worn away by the weather; inside, sheltered, hang two altarpieces by Pomponio Amalteo, who was Pordenone's pupil, married his daughter in 1534 and inherited his Friulian workshop. The master is outside fading, the son-in-law indoors.
The village has grown into Arzenutto and Postoncicco, once separate settlements: Arzenutto was sacked in 1363 by the troops of Rudolf IV of Habsburg and keeps a wooden triptych by Domenico da Tolmezzo. Between 1928 and 1946 San Martino did not exist as a municipality: it was a hamlet of Valvasone, whose fief it had been since the fifteenth century. The parish windows are by the sculptor Pierino Sam.
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