Tourist Areas

Carnia is like a great "village" on the Austria-Veneto border, formed by seven valleys that cut into the magical Carnic Alps.
In these valleys, of great natural beauty, an entire universe of folklore has been preserved intact.

Cividale del Friuli: a wealth of art treasures and a historic town centre full of atmosphere and charm.
Cividale del Friuli, UNESCO World Heritage Site, was founded in 53 BC by Julius Caesar and originally called Forum Iulii, from which the name Friuli is derived.

San Daniele, with its endless views over the rolling countryside, is the main town of the Friulian Hills.

Gemona, lying at the foot of the Julian Prealps, is one of the loveliest historic beauty spots in Friuli Venezia Giulia.

Gorizia has the air of a real border town. In Piazza Transalpina, which was physically divided by a wall until 2004, you walk with one foot in Italy and the other in Slovenia.

Grado, the 'Golden Island', stands in a picturesque lagoon amidst a maize of small islands and is a natural beauty spot with two nature reserves. It used to be the port for Aquileia, the 'Second Rome', situated nearby to the north.

A haven of relaxation and all kinds of fun. That is the essence of Lignano, a sea resort halfway between Venice and Trieste, with 8 kilometres of fine golden sands and a calm sea that has had the eco-friendly 'Bandiera Blu' classification for many years now. It also has 8 quays with 5,000 moorings.

Piancavallo, a broad, sunny plateau to the north of Pordenone, is the ideal place for all kinds of open air activities in winter than in summer.

Pordenone is a modern, lively town where a number of important cultural events take place, such as the pordenonelegge.it book festival (with authors) in September and a Silent film festival in October. The Corso, a picturesque street in the old town centre with long porticoes...

Tarvisio is an area of great valleys, stupendous peaks and a red spruce forest covering 23 thousand hectares, right in the north-east corner of Friuli Venezia Giulia, on the borders between Italy, Slovenia and Austria.

This is border country, with the Adriatic on one side and a stark karst promontory on the other. The land is characterised by the scents and colours of the Mediterranean maquis, intensified by the bracing air of the Bora wind.

Looking at Udine, Friuli's capital city, from the hills where the historic castle stands, to the north you see the red roofs of the city and beyond to the crests of the hills and mountains that protect it, whereas to the south, less than an hour's drive away, there is the Adriatic Sea.