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Palmanova (Friulian: Palme) is a town and comune (municipality) in the Regional decentralization entity of Udine in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, northeast Italy. The town is an example of a star fort of the late Renaissance , built up by the Venetian Republic in 1593.
Map of Palmanova in 1593. The town is encircled by massive Venetian Defensive Systems that are a UNESCO World Heritage Site. [4] The cities of Palmanova and Nicosia, whose Venetian Fortesses were built in the 1590s by the Venetian Republic, are considered to be practical examples of the concept of the ideal city. [5]
Italy ratified the convention on June 23, 1978. [3] Italy has 60 listed sites, making it the state party with the most World Heritage Sites, just above China . [3] [4] The first site in Italy, the Rock Drawings in Valcamonica, was listed at the 3rd Session of the World Heritage Committee, held in Cairo and Luxor, Egypt, in 1979. [5]
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An ancient village in Sicily is nestled largely inside a cave -- in a natural opening between two rocky mountains.
Tarvisio has access to the A23 Alpe-Adria autostrada, part of the European route E55, running from the Austrian A2 Süd Autobahn to Udine, and the A4 autostrada at Palmanova. The Tarvisio railway station is located at the new Pontebbana line from Villach to Udine opened in 2000, that replaced the tracks of the former Austro-Hungarian k.k ...
The Autostrada A23 or Autostrada Alpe-Adria ("Alps-Adria motorway") is an autostrada (Italian for "motorway") 120 kilometres (75 mi) long in Italy located in the region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia which connects the Autostrada A4 (Turin–Trieste) near Palmanova via Udine to Tarvisio and the Austrian A2 Süd Autobahn. It is a part of the E55 ...
I Borghi più belli d'Italia [a] (Italian: [i ˈborɡi pju bˈbɛlli diˈtaːlja]) is a non-profit private association of small Italian towns of strong historical and artistic interest, [2] that was founded in March 2001 on the initiative of the Tourism Council of the National Association of Italian Municipalities, with the aim of preserving and maintaining villages of quality heritage. [3]