The food and wine tradition of a region is an integral part of the culture of a territory and tourists can’t say they know a land if during their journey they do not experience its cooking traditions and delicacies: the Product Club “Flavours of Special People”, an instrument that for years has been directed to the promotion and setting off of Friuli Venezia Giulia’s excellent food and wine products and of the regional operators working in this sector, aims at providing tourists with the genuineness of good regional cooking selecting the restaurants that best represent it. In 2010 new facilities will be included in the “Flavours of Special People” Club, which has become a real guide to the top quality restaurants in the region. It is a specific regulation, provided by the Agenzia TurismoFVG (Friuli Venezia Giulia’s Tourist Board) and by the Accademia... (more)

A combination of nature and progress, environment and high-tech development is far from being impossible as one might think. The Julian Prealps Regional Park is trying to do it with a lucky experiment, seeing in new generation technologies a new contact opportunity with nature. A greener and more sustainable contact. Touching the municipalities of Chiusaforte, Lusevera, Moggio Udinese, Resia, Resiutta and Venzone, the park covers an uncontaminated area of extraordinary beauty stretching as far as the border with Slovenia. A real natural heritage that modern technologies can help highlighting and protecting.
Last August saw the opening of the Foran dal Mus, a geological path crossing the high portion of the Canin mountain that... (more)

Spring is about to bloom. It will be soon time to pack away our scarves and gloves, and stretch our arms, legs, wings, feet... A trip to discover the animals populating Friuli Venezia Giulia is the best way to enjoy the show of the reawakening nature and share it with our children. Which are the best itineraries in the region in the north-eastern corner of Italy for the old and the young who feel their passion for nature bloom with the first sun rays? The range of opportunities is wide: parks, oases, natural reserves, and greenhouses... Friuli Venezia Giulia suits the tastes of everyone.
Mountains first. The Julian Prealps Natural Park, bordering Slovenia, and the Friulan Dolomites Regional Park, on the western edge of the region, in the province of Pordenone, offer easy itineraries, suitable for little hikers: The perfect place to sight wild animals like roes, deer,... (more)

The cold winter will soon give way to spring, and the reawakening nature will roll out its carpets of flowers on earth and fill up the sky with twitters and chirps. The Spring Bird Fair in Sacile, in the province of Pordenone scheduled on 10-11 April, will give it a hand. The 64th Bird Fair is a real hymn to Spring praising the name given to Sacile, “Garden of the Serenissima”: for two days the town centre will turn into an actual garden overflowing with flowers, warbles and curious visitors.
The traditional core of the fair is aviculture. The occasion of the Fair sees a number of collateral initiatives such as a national exhibition, a canary competition, exotic and hybrid specimen and a singing birds competition. A gallery of plumages and voices from all over the world, arranged by the exhibitors of Friuli Venezia Giulia and Veneto.
The... (more)

In Udine, in the central via Cividale, Villa Première has just been built: a new four-star hotel both for tourists looking for a comfortable starting point to visit the town and for professionals who need elegant venues for their business meetings.
The hotel was built focussing on the latest eco-friendly technology: the materials and paints used are natural and eco-friendly and the technological and electrical systems were purposely built in a space far from the hotel. Therefore, attention to the environment but also to elegance: the 48 bedrooms (which will become 72 when the top floor of the building will be completed) are sound-proof and are made with warm colours in various shades of brown and unusual materials such as golden bamboo slates used as bedheads, natural acacia wooden floors and blown glass for the bathroom ornaments. Every room is... (more)