Sights in Friuli Venezia Giulia
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Bell Tower
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Chiesa di Santo Spirito
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Museo della Grande Guerra
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Museo Joyce & Svevo
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Santuario di Barbana
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Modern Art Gallery
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Chiesa di Santa Maria del Castello
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Castello
Just behind the duomo rises the brooding carcass of the Castello, a medieval fort whose 15th-century Palazzo Dipinto (Painted Mansion) attracts particular attention with its frescoes.
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Duomo di Santa Maria Maggiore
The 14th-century Duomo di Santa Maria Maggiore is a Romanesque-Gothic mongrel and offers a west entrance with seven rose-coloured windows that look like so many portholes. Admire the 13th- and 14th-century frescoes depicting Bible scenes and the magnificent 15th-century organ decorated by Il Pordenone.
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Scuola Mosaicisti
The Scuola Mosaicisti was founded in 1922 and has a public gallery documenting the history of Roman mosaics and its manifestation in present day Friuli. Guided tours can be arranged for €5 or for free with a FVG Card.
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Villa Manin
Contemporary-art lovers will appreciate the exhibitions at Villa Manin, a villa in Passariano, 30km southwest of Udine. Home to the Venetian noble Manin family from the 1600s until as late as the 1990s (when the last count died heirless), which included the last of Venice’s doges, the vast mansion is surrounded by 19 hectares of manicured gardens. Napoleon Bonaparte humiliated Doge Ludovico Manin by turning the mansion into his headquarters in mid-1797 and, in October, signing the Treaty of Campoformido, under which Venice passed to Habsburg Austria. Alight from a train on the Venice–Udine line at Codroipo and take a taxi (or, if you have the patience, one of the few SAF…
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Casa delle Farfalle
More than 400 species of tropical butterflies are bred at the Casa delle Farfalle.
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Palazzo Attems
Palazzo Attems is worth a visit for the mansion and the regional 20th-century art.
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Chiesa di Santo Spiridione
The striking Serbian Orthodox Chiesa di Santo Spiridione was completed in 1868 and sports glittering mosaics.
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Arco di Riccardo
The Arco di Riccardo is an earlier Roman remnant, one of the old town gateways, dating from 33 BC.
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Casa Carsica
Local ethnographic tradition comes to life at the Casa Carsica in Rupingrande, north of Villa Opicina.
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Museo Paleocristiano
Aquileia’s Museo Paleocristiano exhibits early Christian mosaic floors and tombstones from the surrounding ruins.
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Chiesa di Sant'Antonio Taumaturgo
The east end of Piazza San Antonio Nuovo is dominated by the enormous neoclassical Catholic Chiesa di Sant'Antonio Taumaturgo (1842).
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Synagogue
Inside Gorizia’s 18th-century synagogue is a modest exhibition dedicated to the history of the Jewish presence in Gorizia.
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Cathedral
Heading south from Piazza della Libertà down Via Vittorio Veneto, you reach Piazza del Duomo and Udine's 13th-century Romanesque-Gothic cathedral.
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Museo Archeologico
Admission to the Galleria d'Arte Antica includes a visit to the Museo Archeologico, also in the castle, with objects dating as far back as the Iron Age.
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Chiesa di Santa Maria Maggiore
The baroque Chiesa di Santa Maria Maggiore, is a cavernous church whose main point of interest is the tiny painting by Sassoferrato of the Madonna della salute.
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Chiesa di San Francesco
The 13th-century Chiesa di San Francesco was once one of Udine’s most striking churches. It is now used as a gallery and is open only during exhibitions.
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