Montereale Valcellina

{{Infobox Italian comune

| name = Montereale Valcellina

| official_name = Comune di Montereale Valcellina

| native_name = {{native name|fur|Montreâl}}

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| coordinates = {{coord|46|10|N|12|40|E|type:city(4,606)_region:IT|display=inline}}

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| region = Friuli-Venezia Giulia

| province = Pordenone (PN)

| frazioni = Grizzo, Malnisio, San Leonardo Valcellina

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| mayor = Igor Alzetta

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| area_total_km2 = 67.88

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| population_total = 4373

| population_as_of = 30 November 2017All demographics and other statistics: Italian statistical institute Istat.

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| population_demonym = Monterealini

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| elevation_m = 317

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| postal_code = 33086

| area_code = 0427

| website = {{official website| http://www.comune.monterealevalcellina.pn.it/}}

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File:Stazione di Montereale Valcellina.jpg

Montereale Valcellina ({{langx|fur|Montreâl}}) is a {{lang|it|comune}} (municipality) in the Regional decentralization entity of Pordenone in the northeast Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia. The comune is located about {{convert|110|km|mi}} northwest of Trieste and about {{convert|20|km|mi}} north of Pordenone.

Montereale Valcellina borders the following municipalities: Andreis, Aviano, Barcis, Maniago, San Quirino.

History

Montereale was the birthplace (1532) of the miller and philosopher Menocchio, whom the historian Carlo Ginzburg discussed in his now-classic work of microhistory entitled, The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller, first published in Italian in 1976 and in English in 1980.{{Cite book|title=The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller|last=Ginzburg|first=Carlo|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|year=1980|location=Baltimore}}

Notable people

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Category:Cities and towns in Friuli-Venezia Giulia

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