Cividale del Friuli, Medieval town in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
Description
Cividale del Friuli is a medieval town in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy, stretching along the Natisone River. Narrow stone lanes wind between multistory houses with terracotta roofs and lead to small squares with fountains.
History
Romans founded Forum Iulii in 50 BC as a military garrison and trade center at the northern edge of their empire. The Lombards chose the site in 568 as the first capital of their kingdom in Italy before power shifted to Pavia.
Culture
In the local trattorias, hosts often serve frico and gubana, regional dishes from the surrounding mountains and Slovenian border areas. On summer evenings, terraces along the riverbank fill with families dining together and enjoying the cool breeze from the Natisone.
Practical
Marked footpaths connect the old town to the bridge and the hypogeum within a ten-minute walk. The cathedral and museum lie close together, so visitors can explore them in a single morning.
Did you know?
The small oratory Santa Maria in Valle dates from the eighth century and displays fine stucco work with female saint figures on the walls. Few other buildings from the Lombard period in Europe contain such well-preserved decorations in their original context.
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Friuli Venezia Giulia is found between the Adriatic Sea and the mountain peaks. This part of northeastern Italy has port cities with history from Austria-Hungary, Roman sites listed as world heritage, castles on the edge of the sea, and villages tucked in the mountains. Trieste, with its squares...
Oratorio di Santa Maria in Valle
366 m
Longobards in Italy, Places of Power
435 m
Ponte del Diavolo
302 m
Dôme de Cividale del Friuli
385 m
National Archaeological Museum of Cividale del Friuli
396 mIpogeo celtico
330 m
Episcopal complex of patriach Callixto
366 mChristian Diocesan Museum and Treasure of the Cathedral of Cividale del Friuli
363 m
Santi Pietro e Biagio
426 m
Church of San Francesco
397 m
Chiesa di San Giovanni in Xenodochio
561 m
Palazzo Pretorio
379 m
Chiesa di San Martino
6.7 km
San Silvestro Papa Church
4.5 km
San Martino
255 m
Chiesa di San Pantaleone (Rualis, Cividale del Friuli)
510 m
Church of St. Peter the Apostle
5.9 km
Santa Maria di Corte (Cividale del Friuli)
477 m
Church of St. Quirinus
5.3 km
San Floriano
2.2 km
Chiesa di San Giovanni Battista
6 km
Santa Dorotea
1.9 km
Santi Silvestro e Valentino
708 m
Chiesa dei Santi Giovanni Battista e Nicolò Vescovo
8.7 km
Chiesa dello Spirito Santo
5.7 km
San Giuseppe
7.4 km
Statua di Giulio Cesare
421 m
Museo Cristiano
398 mDiscover hidden gems everywhere you go!
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