Montereale Valcellina Montreâl (Friulian)
Comune
Comune di Montereale Valcellina
Coat of arms
Location of Montereale Valcellina
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Coordinates: 46°10′N 12°40′E / 46.167°N 12.667°E / 46.167; 12.667
Country	Italy
Region	Friuli Venezia Giulia
Province	Pordenone (PN)
Frazioni	Grizzo, Malnisio, San Leonardo Valcellina
Government
• Mayor	Igor Alzetta
Area [1]
• Total	67.88 km2 (26.21 sq mi)
Elevation	317 m (1,040 ft)
Population  (30 November 2017[2])[3]
• Total	4,373
• Density	64/km2 (170/sq mi)
Demonym	Monterealini
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	33086
Dialing code	0427
Website	Official website

Montereale Valcellina (Friulian: Montreâl) is a comune (municipality) in the Regional decentralization entity of Pordenone in the northeast Italian region of Friuli Venezia Giulia. The comune is located about 110 kilometres (68 mi) northwest of Trieste and about 20 kilometres (12 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.^[4]

Notable people

• Tommaso Toffoli, professor at Boston University

• Menocchio