UNESCO
UNESCO in Friuli-Venezia Giulia
3 towns
Friuli-Venezia Giulia carries 3 of the UNESCO towns we cover. All sit in the province of Udine.
The three most recognized in our catalogue are Cividale del Friuli, Aquileia, and Palmanova.
The towns
Cividale del Friuli
Province: Udine · 138 m
The Lombard capital on the Natisone, founded as Forum Iulii by Julius Caesar, where an eighth-century chapel still holds six stucco saints.
Aquileia
Province: Udine · 5 m
A village of 3,124 on a Roman capital of 100,000, where the largest paleochristian mosaic floor in the West runs under a Romanesque basilica.
Palmanova
Province: Udine · 26 m
A nine-pointed Venetian star fortress on the Friuli plain, its geometry closed three centuries after it began.
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns
Montefiore Conca
Province: Rimini
A 385-meter Malatesta hilltop above the Conca valley, dominated by a fourteenth-century fortress that was once a summer residence of the lords of Rimini.
Melfi
Province: Potenza
At 530 meters on volcanic slopes, first Norman capital of the south and seat of a landmark 1231 legal code issued from its castle.
Valfornace
Province: Macerata
An 872-resident Sibillini commune at 441 meters in the upper Chienti valley, born in 2017 from the merger of Pievebovigliana and Fiordimonte.
Calvello
Province: Potenza
A 730-meter ceramic town working clay since 1200, when Benedictines from Faenza brought the wheel south.
Imola
Province: Bologna
Bologna's Romagna twin, a medieval brick centro anchored by the Caterina Sforza-fortified Rocca, with the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari (the Imola F1 circuit) wrapping the Santerno river at the southern edge of town.