Fagagna

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Fagagna stands on a hill north-west of Udine, its position offering beautiful views of the surrounding hills and plain. The castle, today little more than a ruin, occupies a site inhabited since Roman times, although the first official documentation dates back to the patriarchal period (983 AD). A few elements survive of the ancient fortifications: fragments of the city walls, the Borgo gate, the castle tower with clock (transformed into a bell tower), the ruins of the main tower, a 14^th century house and the small Church of St. Michael Archangel, considered the castle’s oratory, which was first documented in 1386. The civic buildings include the Renaissance period Casa della Comunità with a beautiful loggia on the lower floor.
Not far from the modern town centre, the nature oasis of Quadris is the heart of a project to reintroduce the white stork. It is quite common to encounter pairs of storks nesting on roofs or street lamps on the road from Fagagna to Colloredo di Montalbano.
Ciase Cocél, on the other hand, is an authentic cross-section of peasant life in the last century. More than an ethnographic museum, it offers the chance to fully experience the life of an ancient rural farmhouse. The stone building is the setting for a revisitation of the rites of Friulian peasant life in the early 1900s.

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