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).

40 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

the modern inhabited area. It is quite common to meet a pair of storks nesting on house roofs or street lamps along the road to Colloredo di Monte Albano from Fagagna. The Ciase Cocél provides a genuine insight into

the rural life of the last century. It is not just an ethnographic museum, here you can truly experience how life in an ancient rural cottage would have been. All the rites of early twentieth-century Friulian rural life are re-enacted in this building made entirely from stone. The traditional “Corse dai Mus” (Donkey Race) has taken place every year in Fagagna’s square on the first Sunday of September since 1861.

FOR MORE INFORMATION Udine Infopoint Piazza I° Maggio, n. 7 33100 Udine Tel. +39 0432 295972 Fax + 39 0432 504743 info.udine@promoturismo.fvg.it www.turismofvg.it

Borghi più Belli d’Italia (The Most Beautiful Villages in Italy) Cjase Cocèl Museum of Rural Life Guided tours and bookings Open Sunday afternoons from April to November. Tel. +39 0432 801887

For school and group visits: Tel. +39 0432 812111 cultura@comune.fagagna.ud.it www.comune.fagagna.ud.it