FAGAGNA
Fagagna stands on a hill northwest of Udine, in a location with beautiful views of the surrounding hills and plain. The castle, which today is little more than a ruin, stands on a site that has been inhabited since Roman times, even if the first official documentation dates back to the Patriarchal Age (983 AD).
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Only a few elements of the ancient fortifications have survived, including fragments of the city walls. the village gate, the castle’s clock tower (converted into bell tower), the ruins of the main tower, a small fourteenth century house and the little church of St Michael the Archangel which is believed to
have been the ancient oratory of the castle-dwellers and was already built by 1386. Among the village’s civil buildings, the Renaissance-period House of the Community stands out with its beautiful downstairs loggia. A white stork reintegration project has begun in the natural Oasis of Quadris, which is close to
