Zoppola

Zoppola (Standard Friulian: Çopule, Western Friulian: Sopula) is a comune (municipality) in the Regional decentralization entity of Pordenone in Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, located about 90 km northwest of Trieste and about 9 km east of Pordenone.

The Italian poet Pier Paolo Pasolini wrote a poem called Le gioie di Orcenico ("The joys of Orcenico"); he had lived in Casarsa della Delizia, not far from Zoppola's frazione (borough) of Orcenico, from 1943 to 1949.

Main sights

 * Castello di Zoppola, owned by the patriarch of Aquileia and Cardinal Antonio Panciera. The inner court has frescoes by Pomponio Amalteo
 * San Martino church
 * San Michele, church in the frazione of Ovoledo, with 16th-century frescoes and paintings
 * Sant'Andrea church at Castions, with two canvases by Amalteo and one by Antonio Carneo

International relations
Zoppola is twinned with:
 * 🇫🇷 Tonneins, France, since 1981
 * 🇦🇹 Sankt Georgen am Längsee, Austria, since 1996

People

 * Celso Benigno Luigi Costantini