San Quirino

The municipality of San Quirino comprises the hamlets of Sedrano and San Foca and the localities of Roiatta and Sospisio.

The ancientness of the town is demonstrated by a great number of Roman finds that attest (especially in Sedrano) a housing settlement: but the peculiarity of its history consists of the fact that from 1219 it belonged to the Knights Templar, from 1312 to the Knights of Malta and, finally, to some noble families from Pordenone such as the Ottobonis, the Ricchieris, the Cattaneos (the latter had a beautiful villa built here).

Except for the original expressive solutions of Villa Cattaneo (18th cent.), the artistic heritage of San Quirino is to be found in the ecclesiastical buildings: the church of St. Quirino (with paintings by P.A. Novelli, 18th cent.), the close oratory of St. Rocco (with an altarpiece of the end of the 16th century depicting Madonna with Child and Saints), the church of St. Rocco and St. Sebastian in San Foca (with a tripartite stone altar by Giovanni Antonio from Meduno - 1546 - and the remains of a frescoed St. John the Baptist - about 1500), St. James' church in Sedrano (St. James' Martyrdom frescoed in the apsidal conch by D. Corompaj, 1944-1945, and paintings of the 16th and 17th centuries).