Seasonal conditions
March–November; October is harvest and the quietest.
ROUTE
The UNESCO triangle — Aquileia, Palmanova and Cividale by bike
A flat day through three UNESCO-world sites — the Roman mosaics of Aquileia, the star fortress of Palmanova and the Lombard capital of Cividale.
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ABOUT THIS ROUTE
The route in detail
Three of Friuli’s four UNESCO inscriptions sit within an afternoon’s flat riding of each other: Aquileia’s early-Christian mosaic complex, Palmanova’s perfect nine-pointed star fortress (1593) and Cividale’s Lombard Tempietto. The loop runs some 45 kilometres on quiet plain roads and the Alpe Adria cycle corridor — leave from Aquileia’s basilica square, ride the star’s rampart ring at Palmanova for lunch, and finish under the Ponte del Diavolo in Cividale, where a train can carry you and the bike home.
PLAN RESPONSIBLY
Season & safety
WAYPOINTS
Route points
- 01
Aquileia
start
- 02
Palmanova
waypoint
- 03
Cividale del Friuli
end
MAP & ROUTE
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DESTINATIONS
Places on this route
Aquileia
A ruined Roman imperial city with one of the largest early-Christian mosaic floors in Europe.
Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Palmanova
The nine-pointed star city — a utopian fortress of 1593 built from scratch by Venice, intact behind three rings of walls, a UNESCO World Heritage Site you can walk in an hour.
Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Cividale del Friuli
The first Lombard capital of Italy — a UNESCO town of golden stuccoes and a Devil’s Bridge over the emerald Natisone, twenty minutes from Udine on the Slovene border.
Friuli-Venezia Giulia
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