The city of Udine is historically important and in itself contains monuments and buildings of considerable historical value. Piazza Libertà, known as “the most beautiful Venetian square on the mainland” stands at the foot of the Castle and is…
Cividale del Friuli was the first Lombard duchy in Italy and since 2011 it has been declared a Unesco World Heritage Site. Founded by Julius Caesar in the 2nd century BC with the name of Forum Iulii, from which the whole Friuli region took its name, Cividale has much older…
After the First World War, the nations that had participated in it wanted to honor the sacrifices and heroisms in the body of an anonymous fallen fighter. An unrecognized body was chosen for each of…
The Cathedral of Aquileia is the oldest Christian building in north-eastern Italy. The current Cathedral is a magnificent construction in Romanesque style, commissioned by Patriarch Poppone (1021-1031) who rearranged it on the pre-existing Cathedral…
The first settlements were from Roman times along the Postumia road. The ancient village, however, was founded in the Lombard period by a tribe of Swabians from which the name “Suaves”, “Suevi” which later became…
Custoza is a fraction of the Municipality of Sommacampagna in the province of Verona which rises on the former Roman Postumia road that connected the Upper Adriatic from Genoa near the city of Aquileia. Inaugurated…