Rodda - Sant’Ulderico Church in Monte

The church is located on a mountain ridge that dominates almost the entire middle valley of the Natisone. Of Romanesque structure, its foundation dates back to at least the 12th-14th centuries, as evidenced by the veneration given to the dedicatory saint and the other titular saint, Saint Elizabeth.
Damaged by the earthquakes in 1511-1513, it was later restored: in particular, a new polygonal choir was built in the style of master Andrea da Skofja Loka, the builder of the church of San Giovanni d’Antro.
Externally, the church has no atrium, the facade is made of stone, topped by a single-light bell tower; the masonry is also made of roughly squared stone, with robust exposed corners. The roof is tiled with a frame under the eaves.
The entrance door with a decorated Gothic arch leads into the rectangular hall with an exposed beam ceiling and rectangular windows on the right side. The choir is polygonal, with a ribbed vault ceiling and figurative keystones: on the main keystone, there is an "Angel" and a "Virgin with Child," on the secondary ones, there are rosettes and on the sides, the "Saints Ulderico, Valentino, and Elizabeth." The wooden altar dating back to the mid-17th century is of decent workmanship, an example of the gilded altars (zlati oltar), richly carved and gilded wooden altars spread in the area from the workshops of Caporetto. The church is included in the "Path of the 44 Votive Churches" of the Natisone Valleys.