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Udine · Friuli Venezia Giulia
Things to see in Udine
In Udine the atlas lists 28 historic places: 12 museums, 10 historic villas and palaces, 3 castles, 2 archaeological sites and 1 historic theatre.
Of these, 2 list opening hours and 2 have free entry.
Don’t miss: San Francesco (1260), former church and museum in Udine, Italy.
By date of construction, the most common period is the Modern era (40% of dated places) and the Middle Ages (40% of dated places).
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The town
Udine is the capital of the Province of Udine in the Italian Region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia. Friuli is known as a region of wines, prosciutto di San Daniele and Montasio cheese. Udine is an excellent location to taste these products and to start a visit to this less traveled part of Italy.
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28 places
Museums 12
Villas and palaces 10
Archaeological sites 2
Historic theatres 1
Getting there
By plane: Udine is 40 km from Trieste Airport, which has daily flights to London Stansted, Milan, Munich and Rome, and less regular flights to Birmingham, Brussels, Valencia and other locations in Europe. Other popular nearby airports include Venice Marco Polo, Treviso (Venice) - both about an hour away by car or train - and Ljubljana, Slovenia less than two hours drive from Udine.
By train: From the rest of Italy. The train from Venice/Mestre takes just over an hour and a half (unless you catch one of the locals that makes all the stops for a two-hour ride). Trieste is just over an hour away. Trains to Venice and Trieste run almost every hour. One train a day goes direct to Milan, and another to Rome (otherwise, change in Venice/Mestre).
From Austria: Venice-bound daytime (2 per day) and night trains from Vienna have a stop at Udine. There also exist two regional trains per day from Villach, and buses from Villach and Klagenfurt.
From Slovenia: The most convenient and frequent method may be to take a train to Nova Gorica, walk across the border to Gorizia and onwards to the city's train station and take one of the frequent trains coming from Trieste to Udine. Also, you can take a train from Ljubljana to Udine for €15.6 one way. The train leaves Ljubljana just before 06:00 and arrives after almost four hours to Udine. You can return on the same day from Udine at 17:54 and be in Ljubljana before 22:00.
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What to see, according to Wikivoyage
Castello di Udine. From the monumental staircase of Udine's Castle, which rises on a low hill about the city, you can admire the Julian Alps rising above the Friuli Plains. The Castle hosts the City Museums of art and archeology. In the map rooms on the top floor, you can see how Udine and surrounding Friuli shifted from being part of the medieval Patriarch of Aquilea to the Venetian Republic, then the Austrian Empire and finally, Italy.
Santa Maria di Castello. A church next to the Castle coloured by beautiful frescoes.
Piazza Liberta'. At the foot of the Castle hill is Piazza Liberta', which the tourist office calls the "most beautiful square in Venetian style on earth". Here you find the Loggia del Lionello, built in the 1400s, and across the street, the Tower of the Two Moors, giant statues (similar to those in St Mark's Square in Venice) on either side of a huge bell. They ring the hours.
Cathedral (Duomo) (down Via Vittorio Veneto from Piazza Liberta'). 7:00 - 12:00, 16:00 - 18:30. Dates from the 1200s, and contains works by Tiepolo and others.
Udine also has two photographic collections.
Ethnographic Museum, on Borgo Grazzano.
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