Friuli Venezia Giulia

By Enrico Massetti

Friuli-Venezia Giulia is one of the 5 beautiful regions of Italy and is famous for the delicious cuisines, cakes, and wine. This place is well known for the beautiful Alps Mountains. This region also offers various indoor and outdoor actives like basketball, skiing, exotic spas and horse riding. Being surrounded by the sea this region is also famous for the beautiful beaches.

Nothing is better than relaxation during the holidays so for that this region has the best thing to do such as spas and sauna bath. Tourists will find these activities in every seaside, resorts, and hotels. Friuli-Venezia Giulia is very famous for the excellent spas as the herbs used during this are extraordinary and unique. The best place where tourist can enjoy the spa is Grado Spa Station which is famous for the old herbalist tradition.

In addition to this spa, tourists can also enjoy the sand bath and hot water swimming pool which makes it more attractive tourist's attraction. If you want to enjoy the sightseeing along with the spa, then this region also offers you Lignano spa station which is newly constructed at the foot of Alps Mountains and equipped with the modern facilities.

In Friuli Venezia Giulia tourists can also find places where skiing is done for adventure. There are many downhill slopes for those tourists who like adventure and want to run with the thrill of fast speed. This region also offers various small slopes, if tourists want to ski for relaxation.

Sella Nevea and the Julian Alps are well-known ski areas which cater the different categories of skiers and new learners. Tourists can also hire the ski instructors and learn skiing easily. Besides skiing, tourist can also enjoy various ice sports such as ice skating, snowboarding and the traditional dish of Friuli Mountains Sauris ham with the white wines.

Another thing to do is exploring the Art and Culture of this region. The best place of this region is the city of Pordenone which is constructed almost 300 years ago and famous for its beautiful churches and decorative constructions. This is the city where tourists can feel the fragrance of the real heritage of this region.

This is a guide to a trip in the Friuli region of Italy: passing through Grado, Lignano, Aquileia, Trieste, Pordenone, Udine, and touching the mountains of Friuli, the Carnia, Tarvisio, and Sequals.

There are extensive descriptions and photos of the attractions.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Enrico Massetti
• Release date: Feb 21, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311669063

Enrico Massetti

Enrico Massetti nació en Milán, Italia, donde vivió durante más de 30 años, visitando innumerables destinos turísticos, desde las montañas de los Alpes hasta el mar de Sicilia. Ahora vive en Washington, Estados Unidos. Sin embargo, visita regularmente su ciudad natal y disfruta recorriendo todos los lugares de su país, especialmente aquellos a los que puede llegar en transporte público. Puede contactar con Enrico en [e-mail].

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Friuli Venezia Giulia

Enrico Massetti

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Friuli – Venezia Giulia

Villa Manin

The last Doge of Venice, Ludovico Manin, retired to this area at the end of the eighteenth-century when the Venetian Republic fell to the blows of Napoleon Bonaparte.

These days, whoever visits Villa Manin in the province of Udine, detects a hint of twilight in the air, almost as if the memory of the old gentleman who came here to pass the autumn of his life was influencing the visitors and inducing a melancholic mood in them. But this is a pleasant sensation, that leads to a more intimate and intense kind of aesthetic enjoyment.

Loggia del Lionello Udine Italy

The same sensation recurs all over this beautiful and severe border region of Friuli, where almost every town boasts a museum – those of Udine, Tolmezzo, Pordenone, Cividale del Friuli, Gorizia, and Aquileia are particularly important and exciting – and is able to surprise with the plurality of architectural styles.

In the center of Udine, the Venetian Gothic of the Palazzo del Comune faces the beautiful twentieth-century Art Deco Caffe’ Contarena. Cultural attractions are also remarkable, as at Udine again, where galleries of historical and modern art are numerous.

Highly suggestive is the Basilica in Aquileia, now a small town but once a principal city of the Roman Empire.

Trieste San Giusto

Grado, in the province of Gorizia, is the favorite of many tourists who regularly return for its sea and particularly healthy climate.

Trieste, in tiny Venezia Giulia, is the most middle-European of Italian cities, rich in history and culture, with its essential ancient and modern artistic heritage, has been loved and represented by great literary figures like James Joyce, Italo Svevo, Umberto Saba and many others.

And don't forget the mountains, in Friuli, you can enjoy summer and winter sports in beautiful mountain surroundings.

Sauris

The Dolomites of the Carnia region are very well known and famous, Tarvisio and Sequals are two of the most frequented villages.

Extraordinary is the "Widespread Hotel": The idea of the popular/widespread hotel stems from the need to safeguard and recover the existing building heritage; houses, stables and old farmsteads have been restored, and today they stand as structures which are in harmony with the environment and the urban layout of these centers. You have to stay in an old original building, correctly restored to a modern standard, with all the amenities of a hotel while savoring the feeling of ancient times.

Aquileia

Aquileia, Basilica – Intern

Aquileia was a magnificent city in the times of Augustus and again after the barbarian invasions, in the high Middle Ages. In the 5th-century, it became the seat of a patriarchate, and then Venetian. After having reached its maximum splendor in the 11th-century, it fell slowly into decay, coming at last to its present state.

Standing isolated and