Duomo di San Nicolò

The Duomo of San Nicolò stands beside the Livenza in Sacile. Its late-medieval and Renaissance fabric, twentieth-century artworks and reconstructed bell-tower crown preserve several phases of the town's religious history.

Why it matters

The church occupies an important place in Sacile's development around the river. Tradition connects its early origins with a chapel founded in the late eighth century, while the present building was raised between 1474 and 1496 under Venetian rule.

What to notice

The bronze portal and apse decoration are associated with Pino Casarini. The interior has a nave and two aisles ending in a polygonal apse, with older fresco fragments preserving traces of an earlier decorative programme. The brick bell tower rises to an octagonal upper section and a spire crowned by a metal weather-vane angel.

Context and history

The rebuilt church was consecrated in 1496. The bell tower belongs to the later sixteenth century, but wartime damage required reconstruction of its upper parts after the First World War. Further restoration of the church in 1939–1941 and later artistic work added to a long history of alteration.