Gorizia

Once the core of the mighty Roman Empire, and the cradle of the Renaissance, it is also home to the greatest number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the world, including high art and monuments. Italy is famous for its delicious cuisine, it's trendy fashions, luxury sports cars and motorcycles, diverse regional cultures and dialects, as well as for its various sceneries from the seas to the Alps and Apennines, all reasons why it got nickcoded Il Bel Paese (the Beautiful Country). One of the great things about Italy is that its long thin shape means that when you get fed up with sightseeing you are often a relatively short distance from a beach. In many of the more popular areas, large sections of beach are reserved as paid beaches. Italy is full of differents cultures you can see: Etruscan Italy, The Greek influence, Roman ruins, Christian Italy, The Byzantine cities and The Renaissance.

Italy

Rich in natural beauty, it has developed a tourist trade centred on its beach resorts in the south and its winter sport resorts in Upper Friuli. Culture lovers will delight in discovering its Austro-Hungarian monuments and Roman sites. This is the homeland of the famous 'polenta' (a typical corn-based dish), and also offers a gastronomy that easily matches that of any other region.

Friuli-Venezia Giulia

Originally erected in the 14th century, like many of the city's buildings, it was almost entirely destroyed during World War I. It has been rebuilt following the forms of the 1682 edifice, a Baroque church with splendid stucco decoration. A Gothic chapel of San Acatius is annexed to the nave

Cattedrale dei Santi Ilario e Taziano - Gorizia

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