{"id":2190,"date":"2016-04-03T17:13:08","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T22:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/?p=2190"},"modified":"2019-07-29T13:06:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T18:06:49","slug":"italy-between-venice-and-the-julian-alps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/?p=2190","title":{"rendered":"Italy between Venice and the Julian Alps"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Northern Italy Between Venice and the Julian Alps: Udine, Tarvisio, Palmanova, Aquilaea, Vila Manin, Castelmonte, Gemona, Cividale, Venzone.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Within a few hours drive of Venice are vast regions of Roman cities and ruins, the base of the Italian army during World War I (close to the invading Austro-Hungarian border), regional villages, and\u00a0 the remnants of a major earthquake that changed the landscape and wiped out cities in 1976.\u00a0\u00a0 A bit further to the north is the city of Trieste, which is treated in a separate blog.
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Udine is the center of our trips here.\u00a0 Not as well known as Venice, it is a major regional city and former Roman outpost.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"IMG_4442-1\" — *Tarvisio<\/em>: From a cable car in the Julian Alps, just a few miles from the Slovenian and Austrian borders.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n* $\"IMG_4492-1\"$ <\/a>
Tarvisio, Julian Alps: top of the mountain range<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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$\"IMG_4509-1\"$ <\/a>
Tarvisio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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$\"IMG_4555-1\"$ <\/a><\/p>\n
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$\"IMG_4619\"$ <\/a>
Venzone, the \u201cLavender Shop.\u201d The region is known for its lavender blossoms that are used for scents and practically everything else.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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$\"IMG_4639-1\"$ <\/a>
Venzone \u2014 a medieval village in Friuli that was rebuilt after the 1976 earthquake destroyed many towns in the region. The old city wall reconstructed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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$\"IMG_4651\"$ <\/a>
The old square in Udine. It was a Roman outpost, later part of the Venice administration, now center of the region of Friuli.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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$\"IMG_5168-1\"$ <\/a>
Udine along the canal.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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$\"IMG_4675\"$ <\/a>
Believe it or not, a bathroom in the Udine modern art museum. It was built in a huge house bequeathed by a fabric merchant. This display is his actual bathroom, with undersized fixtures for his small stature.\u00a0 The shoe forms seem to be added to make this bathroom an artistic installation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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$\"IMG_4687\"$ <\/a>
The eccentric dining hall of the fabric merchant\u2019s bequest \u2014 the art is oversized, the furniture sized smaller for his proportions.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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$\"IMG_4728-2\"$ <\/a>
Steps from the old Udine center to the church\/museum of traditional art.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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$\"IMG_4739-1\"$ <\/a>
From the top of the stairs, in front of the church\/museum \u2014 looking out over the valley around Udine.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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$\"IMG_4782-1\"$ <\/a>
Vila Manin, residence of the last Doge of Venice and legendarily a short-term residence of Napoleon before his march on Europe.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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$\"IMG_4848-1\"$ <\/a>
The Vila Manin now houses a museum, here showing an exhibition of Mir\u00f3s late works from his Mallorca period. This symbolically reconstructs one of his work spaces.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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$\"IMG_4874\"$ <\/a>
Vila in early evening with some blue left in the sky.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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$\"IMG_4964-1\"$ <\/a>
Aquilea \u2014 a major Roman outpost and shipping port. Now the whole city is a museum (you get an audio guide that literally takes you through the entire town). This is a mosaic preserved in the floor of the church of the patriarchate. Some parts of the church are about a thousand years old.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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$\"IMG_5002\"$ <\/a>
A marble statue in the church of the patriarchate.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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$\"IMG_5022-1\"$ <\/a>
Mosaic with a ram motif.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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$\"IMG_5035-1\"$ <\/a>
From the vast collection of Roman statuary in Aquilaea.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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$\"IMG_5097\"$ <\/a>
The Adriatic coast of Grado, Italy. A popular resort in season, but more pensive in March.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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$\"IMG_5147-1\"$ <\/a>
House in Grado, Italy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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$\"IMG_5239\"$ <\/a>
Wall of Miracles in Castelmonte. The pictures and other artifacts memorialize events in which it was believed that the Virgin Mary miraculously intervened.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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$\"IMG_5243-1\"$ <\/a>
Detail of one of the miracles. Unlike the Middle Ages where miracles were often associated with plague and war, these events are often associated with modern mishaps \u2014 here, a farm accident.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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$\"IMG_5285\"$ <\/a>
An old well and statues on the rest of Castelmonte, sunset<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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$\"IMG_5300-1\"$ <\/a>
Arch in the mountain church of Castelmonte.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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$\"IMG_5331\"$ <\/a>
A pastel evening, just at dusk, from the Devil\u2019s Bridge in Cividale.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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$\"IMG_5399-1\"$ <\/a>
In the mountains near Interneppo \u2014 an old watercourse leading from the mountains down into the valley.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
$\"IMG_5477\"$ <\/a>
Church in Gemona, at the epicenter of the 1976 earthquake. Much of the church was badly damaged. The off-kilter pillars (especially at the left) are not an effect of the camera lens \u2014 they were shifted in the earthquake and left off-center when the church was rebuilt.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
$\"IMG_5479\"$ <\/a>
This remainder of a crucifix from the earthquake has been especially set as a memorial to the disaster and the recovery.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u00a0 Northern Italy Between Venice and the Julian Alps: Udine, Tarvisio, Palmanova, Aquilaea, Vila Manin, Castelmonte, Gemona, Cividale, Venzone. \u00a0 Within a few hours drive of Venice are vast regions of Roman cities and ruins, the base of the Italian army during World War I (close to the invading Austro-Hungarian border), regional villages, and\u00a0 the … Continue reading Italy between Venice and the Julian Alps<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-travel-germany-argentina-korea-italy"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2190"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2325,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190\/revisions\/2325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

*Tarvisio<\/em>: From a cable car in the Julian Alps, just a few miles from the Slovenian and Austrian borders.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n* $\"IMG_4492-1\"$ <\/a>
Tarvisio, Julian Alps: top of the mountain range<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
$\"IMG_4509-1\"$ <\/a>
Tarvisio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
$\"IMG_4555-1\"$ <\/a><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
$\"IMG_4619\"$ <\/a>
Venzone, the \u201cLavender Shop.\u201d The region is known for its lavender blossoms that are used for scents and practically everything else.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
$\"IMG_4639-1\"$ <\/a>
Venzone \u2014 a medieval village in Friuli that was rebuilt after the 1976 earthquake destroyed many towns in the region. The old city wall reconstructed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
$\"IMG_4651\"$ <\/a>
The old square in Udine. It was a Roman outpost, later part of the Venice administration, now center of the region of Friuli.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
$\"IMG_5168-1\"$ <\/a>
Udine along the canal.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
$\"IMG_4675\"$ <\/a>
Believe it or not, a bathroom in the Udine modern art museum. It was built in a huge house bequeathed by a fabric merchant. This display is his actual bathroom, with undersized fixtures for his small stature.\u00a0 The shoe forms seem to be added to make this bathroom an artistic installation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
$\"IMG_4687\"$ <\/a>
The eccentric dining hall of the fabric merchant\u2019s bequest \u2014 the art is oversized, the furniture sized smaller for his proportions.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
$\"IMG_4728-2\"$ <\/a>
Steps from the old Udine center to the church\/museum of traditional art.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
$\"IMG_4739-1\"$ <\/a>
From the top of the stairs, in front of the church\/museum \u2014 looking out over the valley around Udine.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
$\"IMG_4782-1\"$ <\/a>
Vila Manin, residence of the last Doge of Venice and legendarily a short-term residence of Napoleon before his march on Europe.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
$\"IMG_4848-1\"$ <\/a>
The Vila Manin now houses a museum, here showing an exhibition of Mir\u00f3s late works from his Mallorca period. This symbolically reconstructs one of his work spaces.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
$\"IMG_4874\"$ <\/a>
Vila in early evening with some blue left in the sky.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
$\"IMG_4964-1\"$ <\/a>
Aquilea \u2014 a major Roman outpost and shipping port. Now the whole city is a museum (you get an audio guide that literally takes you through the entire town). This is a mosaic preserved in the floor of the church of the patriarchate. Some parts of the church are about a thousand years old.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
$\"IMG_5002\"$ <\/a>
A marble statue in the church of the patriarchate.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
$\"IMG_5022-1\"$ <\/a>
Mosaic with a ram motif.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
$\"IMG_5035-1\"$ <\/a>
From the vast collection of Roman statuary in Aquilaea.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
$\"IMG_5097\"$ <\/a>
The Adriatic coast of Grado, Italy. A popular resort in season, but more pensive in March.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
$\"IMG_5147-1\"$ <\/a>
House in Grado, Italy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
$\"IMG_5239\"$ <\/a>
Wall of Miracles in Castelmonte. The pictures and other artifacts memorialize events in which it was believed that the Virgin Mary miraculously intervened.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
$\"IMG_5243-1\"$ <\/a>
Detail of one of the miracles. Unlike the Middle Ages where miracles were often associated with plague and war, these events are often associated with modern mishaps \u2014 here, a farm accident.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
$\"IMG_5285\"$ <\/a>
An old well and statues on the rest of Castelmonte, sunset<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
$\"IMG_5300-1\"$ <\/a>
Arch in the mountain church of Castelmonte.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
$\"IMG_5331\"$ <\/a>
A pastel evening, just at dusk, from the Devil\u2019s Bridge in Cividale.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
$\"IMG_5399-1\"$ <\/a>
In the mountains near Interneppo \u2014 an old watercourse leading from the mountains down into the valley.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
$\"IMG_5477\"$ <\/a>
Church in Gemona, at the epicenter of the 1976 earthquake. Much of the church was badly damaged. The off-kilter pillars (especially at the left) are not an effect of the camera lens \u2014 they were shifted in the earthquake and left off-center when the church was rebuilt.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
$\"IMG_5479\"$ <\/a>
This remainder of a crucifix from the earthquake has been especially set as a memorial to the disaster and the recovery.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u00a0 Northern Italy Between Venice and the Julian Alps: Udine, Tarvisio, Palmanova, Aquilaea, Vila Manin, Castelmonte, Gemona, Cividale, Venzone. \u00a0 Within a few hours drive of Venice are vast regions of Roman cities and ruins, the base of the Italian army during World War I (close to the invading Austro-Hungarian border), regional villages, and\u00a0 the … Continue reading Italy between Venice and the Julian Alps<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-travel-germany-argentina-korea-italy"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2190"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2325,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190\/revisions\/2325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}