Patron saint festival In 51 days
Feast of Saint Nicholas
📅 Every year, on 6 December
On 6 December Comeglians celebrates its patron Saint Nicholas; the municipal territory preserves the Grotta della Volpe.
The name says where the people who founded it came from: in Friulian it is Comelians, the plural of comeliàn, meaning a native of the Comelico. The village lies in a hollow of the Val Degano, in Carnia, exactly where three valleys meet, and it lived off that position for centuries: here the timber of the whole area was gathered and sorted. After the last war that trade all but vanished, and with it the reason the village mattered.
The church of San Nicolò dates from the thirteenth century, has a bell gable and keeps medieval frescoes. The parish church of San Giorgio stands higher up instead, on a rocky spur looking over the middle valley, and inside it holds a Roman funerary altar of the first century: a pagan gravestone that ended up part of a church. From the hamlet of Tualis a road climbs Monte Crostis to nearly two thousand metres, and it has become a climb that cyclists come looking for.
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Places to see within 25 km
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Villa Pallavicino 📍 Salerano Canavese · 5.8 km The Second Empire villa gazing over the morainic amphitheatre of Ivrea from a hill above Salerano Canavese. Torre di Pramotton 📍 Donnas · 15 km A twelfth-century hexagonal tower at 540 metres, signalling to the Pont-Saint-Martin castle and the fort of Bard. Castello di Suzey 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 15 km A ruin above Ivéry: in 1351 the Vallaise held an Ivrea merchant prisoner here for ransom. Pont Saint-Martin 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 16 km Two thousand years of traffic on a single span: the boldest flat arch left from Roman times. Riserva naturale stagno di Holay 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 15 km A hectare and a half of wetland at 750 metres, with relict species rare in the Aosta Valley. castello di Pont-Saint-Martin 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 16 km The old castle, with its rare hexagonal keep, half an hour up through the vineyards above the town.