Pasiano di Pordenone

The municipality of Pasiano comprises the hamlets of Azzanello, Cecchini, Rivarotta, Sant'Andrea, Visinale di Sopra e di Sotto and the localities of Belvedere, Candia, Pozzo, Pradolino, Squarzare', Tavella, Traffe, Villanova, Villaraccolta, Villotta.

The Roman origin of the settlement is demonstrated, as well as by the praedial toponyms, by the remarkable amount of material found in a dozen different areas, among which the epigraph with the name of an Acilio Glabrione (locality of Belvedere).

Fictile material, mosaics, work tools, demonstrate that the settlements were many and rather important.

The oldest documentary evidence concerns Rivarotta where, already in the Lombard-Carolingian age (8th-9th centuries), there was a worship building dedicated to St. Martin, next to which a monastery was built, which, in 1232, was entrusted to the Camaldolese (their only presence in Friuli).

The building was destroyed by the Venetians in 1419, rebuilt in 1466, pulled down in 1810 and then transformed into Villa Luppis, inside a very beautiful park.

Pasiano is also recommended due to the important position it holds in the history of the agriculture and industry (kilns, wood) in western Friuli, due to the presence of characteristic rural houses of the 18th and 19th centuries; due to the amazing natural views, such as the confluence between the Meduna and the Livenza and Tremeacque.