Aviano Pleif (Cimbrian) | |
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| Comune di Aviano | |
_01.jpg) Palazzo Menegozzi in Piazza Duomo | |
Location of Aviano  | |
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| Coordinates:46°04′N12°35′E / 46.067°N 12.583°E /46.067; 12.583 | |
| Country | Italy |
| Region | Friuli-Venezia Giulia |
| Province | Pordenone (PN) |
| Frazioni | Castello di Aviano, Giais, Cortina di Giais, Selva di Giais, Costa, Glera, Marsure, Ornedo,Piancavallo, Piante, San Martino di Campagna, Somprado |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Paolo Tassan-Zanin (elected in 2022) |
| Area | |
• Total | 113.35 km2 (43.76 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 159 m (522 ft) |
| Population (31 December 2017)[2] | |
• Total | 9,080 |
| • Density | 80/km2 (210/sq mi) |
| Demonym | Avianesi |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 33081 |
| Dialing code | 0434 |
| ISTAT code | 093004 |
| Patron saint | St. Zeno |
| Website | Official website |
Aviano (Friulian:Davian;Cimbrian:Pleif) is a town andcomune (municipality) in theRegional decentralization entity of Pordenone at the foot of theDolomites mountain range inFriuli-Venezia Giulia, northeastItaly.
Aviano is home to the C.R.O. (Centro di Riferimento Oncologico), one of the main Italian cancer hospitals and research centres[1].
ThePiancavallo ski resort is part of the municipality.
Findings from Aviano show that the area has been populated since the Bronze Age.
It became an agricultural area dependent on the municipality ofConcordia Sagittaria. The name itself, Aviano, derives from a prediale name, that is, referring to land belonging to a landowner named Avilius or Avidius.
In the early Middle Ages Aviano was made up of parish churches and villages in correspondence with today's hamlets. Around the 11th century, on a hill overlooking the surrounding plain, a castle was built by thePatriarchate of Aquileia and given to local feudal lords. The castle was besieged several times, during the 14th century first by the Da Camino and then by the Carraresi, and in 1411 it was conquered by the Hungarian troops ofEmperor Sigismund.
Most historians believe that a commercial center developed where present day Aviano is situated, with a cultural and defensive center in the castle area. Aviano was a possession of thePatriarchal State of Friuli until 1420, when it came under the influence of theVenetian Republic, like the rest of the territory of the Patriarchate of Aquileia. In 1477 and 1499 Aviano and the surrounding villages were devastated byraids of Ottoman troops in which a large part of the population was killed or taken prisoner.
With the fall of the Venetian Republic, Aviano followed the fate of the rest of Friuli and Veneto, and was part of theNapoleonic Empire and then theAustrian Empire (Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia) before beingannexed to theKingdom of Italy in 1866 as a consequence of theThird War of Italian Independence, itself a part of thePrussian-Austrian War.
In 1911 one of the first airfields of the Italian Air Force was built in Aviano, which in the following years was enlarged and became increasingly important until it became theNATO Aviano AB base in the 1950s. At the end of the sixties the mountain area of Piancavallo became a ski and winter sports resort.
Although the village is located at the foot of theDolomites, the municipality extends to an altitude of 2,251 metres (7,385 feet) above sea level (Cimon del Cavallo peak).
| Climate data for Aviano (1981-2010) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 7.4 (45.3) | 8.9 (48.0) | 13.0 (55.4) | 17.1 (62.8) | 22.1 (71.8) | 25.6 (78.1) | 28.3 (82.9) | 28.3 (82.9) | 23.7 (74.7) | 18.4 (65.1) | 12.5 (54.5) | 8.3 (46.9) | 17.8 (64.0) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 3.5 (38.3) | 4.6 (40.3) | 8.6 (47.5) | 12.8 (55.0) | 17.7 (63.9) | 21.2 (70.2) | 23.6 (74.5) | 23.5 (74.3) | 19.1 (66.4) | 14.3 (57.7) | 8.7 (47.7) | 4.6 (40.3) | 13.5 (56.3) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −0.3 (31.5) | 0.2 (32.4) | 4.2 (39.6) | 8.4 (47.1) | 13.3 (55.9) | 16.7 (62.1) | 18.9 (66.0) | 18.6 (65.5) | 14.5 (58.1) | 10.2 (50.4) | 4.8 (40.6) | 0.8 (33.4) | 9.2 (48.6) |
| Average rainfall mm (inches) | 25.9 (1.02) | 21.6 (0.85) | 32.8 (1.29) | 44.4 (1.75) | 69.0 (2.72) | 49.1 (1.93) | 43.4 (1.71) | 49.8 (1.96) | 61.5 (2.42) | 50.1 (1.97) | 65.4 (2.57) | 42.9 (1.69) | 555.9 (21.88) |
| Average rainy days(≥ 1.0 mm) | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 40 |
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Aviano is served by a station on theSacile-Pinzano Railway: theAviano railway station.The Sacile-Pinzano line connects the town ofSacile, on theVenice-Udine railway, to the village ofPinzano, on theGemona del Friuli-Pinzano line.
As of today, the service is limited fromSacile toManiago.
Aviano Air Base was established byItaly in 1911. The base was among the first ones available to Italian aviation.
There has been anAmerican presence atAviano Air Base since the end ofWorld War II. In 1954 the Italian and American governments signed a joint use agreement and by 1955, HQUnited States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) had moved its Italian operations fromUdine to Aviano. The base went through a period of hosting rotational fighter squadrons. With the declining use of the Italian live fire range, the rotational squadrons became a thing of the past. Aviano became a war reserve material storage base and played a big part inDesert Storm. In 1992, HQ16th Air Force and the 401st Fighter Wing moved fromTorrejon Air Base,Spain to Aviano. The Wing became home to two F-16 fighter squadrons, the 510th FS and the 555th FS. Both squadrons relocated fromRamstein AB in 1994 and redesignated. The wing was redesignated from the 401st Fighter Wing to the31st Fighter Wing in 1994 as Aviano took on permanently based aircraft for the first time in over 50 years. The base currently performs a NATO mission with close coordination with Italian personnel.
Aviano istwinned with:
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