Montereale Valcellina
Montreâl (Friulian) | |
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Comune di Montereale Valcellina | |
Coordinates: 46°10′N 12°40′E / 46.167°N 12.667°E | |
Country | Italy |
Region | Friuli Venezia Giulia |
Province | Pordenone (PN) |
Frazioni | Grizzo, Malnisio, San Leonardo Valcellina |
Government | |
• Mayor | Igor Alzetta |
Area | |
• Total | 67.88 km2 (26.21 sq mi) |
Elevation | 317 m (1,040 ft) |
Population | |
• Total | 4,373 |
• Density | 64/km2 (170/sq mi) |
Demonym | Monterealini |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Postal code | 33086 |
Dialing code | 0427 |
Website | Official website |
Montereale Valcellina (Friulian: Montreâl) is a comune (municipality) in the Regional decentralization entity of Pordenone in the northeast Italian region of Friuli Venezia Giulia. The comune is located about 110 kilometres (68 mi) northwest of Trieste and about 20 kilometres (12 mi) north of Pordenone.
Montereale Valcellina borders the following municipalities: Andreis, Aviano, Barcis, Maniago, San Quirino.
Montereale was the birthplace (1532) of the miller and philosopher Menocchio, whom the historian Carlo Ginzburg discussed in his now-classic work of microhistory entitled, The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller, first published in Italian in 1976 and in English in 1980.[4]