Udine - informations about Udine and its surroundings

Situated between the sea and the mountains and set down on the plain, the town is a large agricultural center situated in a geographical favorable position anf for this seat archiepiscopal. Square of the Libertà is one of the squares more elegant of the town on which are appeared the Palace Town raised in 1448 and the Arcade of San Giovanni with the Tower of the Orologio that accede to the Hat of San Giovanni. To visit is the Castle, raised from 1517 and situated to the center of the town, in which have seat the Municipal Museum and the Gallery of story and art. Are able besides to visit the Church of Santa Maria of Castle, restored more times, the Cathedral of Santa Maria of the Grazie, of eighteenth-century shapes, the imposing Archiepiscopal Palace in which has seat the Museum Diocesano of Sacred art. Mattering is also square San Giacomo, the most ancient of the citizen, notes since 1248 and adorned to the center from a fountain and on which is appeared the homonymous Church. The ideal seasons to visit the province are the summer fot the beauty of the landscape and the winter for the winter sports. Every year the firt of August more tourists run up to partecipate to the party to the friendship Italo-Austrian in which can be sample regional and austrian speciality. The rice characterizes the cusine of the province with a large wear of yellow mush, cheeses and meats. Well-known is the sweet ham raw San Daniele while like sweets are to taste those do of ricotta, fragrant grasses and fruit.