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 Friuli - Venezia Giulia
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.
Udine - Palazzo del Comune
 The same sensation recurs all over this
beautiful and severe border region, where almost every town boasts a museum
(those of
Udine, Tolmezzo,
Pordenone,
Cividale del Friuli,
Gorizia, and
Aquileia are particularly important and interesting), 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 Caffé Contarena) and cultural attractions (at
Udine again, there are galleries of historic and modern art).
Highly
suggestive is the Basilica in
Aquileia, now a small town but once an
important city of the Roman Empire. Trieste, in Venezia Giulia,
the most "middle-European" of Italian cities, rich in history and culture, with
its important ancient and modern artistic heritage, has been loved and
represented by great literary figures (James Joyce, Italo Svevo, Umberto Saba
and many others).
Grado in the province of Gorizia is the favorite
of many tourists who regularly return for its sea and particularly healthy
climate.
By
ENIT Official Website
Festivals
in Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Official Tourist Boards - APT del Friuli - Venezia Giulia
- Useful links
Campings and vacation
villages
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