A - Castello di Spessa
The Eastern lands of the Most Serene Republic
The lives of Venetian nobility in a frontier zone, a cultural crossroads between the Noncello and Isonzo Rivers
A) CASTELLO DI SPESSA
Capriva del Friuli UD
- Apartments and rooms sleeping up to … (Agri-tourism)
- Visits by prior reservation
- Restaurants
- Meetings and events
- Cellars: tastings and sale of products
- Golf Club
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B) VILLA MANIN
Passariano di Codroipo UD
- Visits
- Meetings and events
- Exhibitions
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C) BORGO DEI CONTI DELLA TORRE
Morsano al Tagliamento PN
- Rooms and suites sleeping up to 24 (B&B)
- Visits by prior reservation
- Meetings and events
- Sale of products
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D) VILLA CORRER DOLFIN
Porcia PN
- Guided visits by prior reservation
- Historic park
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E) CASTELLO DI PORCIA
Porcia PN
- Visits to the historic wine cellar by reservation
- Meetings and events
- Cellars: tastings and sale of products
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Suggested things to do
- Visit the historic center of Udine, the Civic Museums in the Castle, Diocesan Museum with works by Giambattista Tiepolo and … a curiosity: the Margherita Hack Hummingbird Center.
- Discover the Castle and historic center of Gorizia, hometown of Nobel Prize winner Carlo Rubbia.
- Explore Friuli-Venezia Giulia’s five Unesco World Heritage sites: Aquileia, Cividale, Palmanova, Palù di Livenza and the Friulane Dolomites.
- Taste prosciutto di San Daniele and prosciutto from Sauris in Carnia, the great Friuli wines from the Collio and Carso zones and from the reclaimed prehistoric flood plain.
- Visit 15th and 16th-century votive churches in the Valli del Natisone, by car, or on hiking and mountain biking paths.
- Ramble on the Carso high plain, exploring its trails and visiting the Grotta Gigante.
- Admire Sacile, the “Garden of the Serenissima”, and the lovely villages of Venzone and Gemona del Friuli, rebuilt after the 1976 earthquake, and stop at the Pier Paolo Pasolini Study Center in Casarsa della Delizia.
- Explore the lagoon of Grado and Marano by boat.
