Food & Wine
Taste the Colli Orientali — wine roads and gubana
Cividale del Friuli · Friuli-Venezia Giulia
QUICK INFORMATION
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- Italy
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- Cividale del Friuli · Friuli-Venezia Giulia
- DURATION
- 1–2 days
ABOUT THIS EXPERIENCE
Cividale sits in the middle of one of Italy’s best white-wine hills, and the town’s tables make the most of it: Natisone trout, frico with Montasio cheese, and above all the gubana — the spiral pastry of nuts, raisins, citrus and grappa that is the Natisone valleys’ signature, traditionally served with a glass of the local Verduzzo. Cantine along the ridge roads pour Ribolla Gialla in its still and sparkling forms, and the osmize farm taverns open their doors in season.
WHAT YOU’LL EXPERIENCE
What you’ll experience
You spend an afternoon between the square’s pasticcerie and one or two ridge-road cantine — a tasting of Friulano and Schioppettino with the producer, a slab of gubana with coffee in town, and dinner of trout and frico in a trattoria under the arcades before the lamplit walk to the bridge.
THE EXPERIENCE IN DETAIL
What it’s really like
HIGHLIGHTS
Moments worth savouring
Gubana — the nut-and-grappa spiral pastry born here.
Ribolla Gialla, Friulano and the rescued Schioppettino at the source.
Natisone trout and frico in the town’s trattorias.
The osmize farm-gate taverns of the wine season.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Good to know before you go
Cantine usually want a call or an email ahead; the pasticcerie and trattorias take anyone; September–October is harvest and osmize season.
WHY IT MATTERS
Why it matters
Friuli is Italy’s most quietly excellent wine region, and Cividale is its most convenient base — great drinking without a single tour bus.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Before you go
MAP & LOCATION
Taste the Colli Orientali — wine roads and gubana
Taste the Colli Orientali — wine roads and gubana, Cividale del Friuli, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
46.0706, 13.4934
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MORE EXPERIENCES
More to do in Cividale del Friuli
FOOD & DRINK
Where to eat nearby
Trattoria under the arcades of Corso Paolino d’Aquileia — Natisone trout and frico
Pasticceria on Piazza del Duomo — the gubana, the town’s own pastry
Osterie of the Natisone valleys — barley soup and smoked pork in bilingual villages
HOTELS & STAYS
Where to stay nearby
Historic-centre B&Bs and rooms in the old town’s palazzi
Agriturismi among the Colli Orientali vineyards — stay at the winery
Udine as the rail-connected base — Cividale is 24 minutes away by train
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