Cividale del Friuli

Friuli takes its name from this town: Julius Caesar's Forum Iulii, which in 568 became the seat of the first Lombard duchy in Italy. The medieval centre stands above the ravine of the Natisone, crossed by the Ponte del Diavolo, and its Lombard quarter, with the stuccoed Tempietto Longobardo, has been on the UNESCO list since 2011.

Highlights

• The Tempietto Longobardo, with its Byzantine-influenced stucco figures
• The Ponte del Diavolo over the Natisone, symbol of the town
• The Celtic Hypogeum, rock-cut chambers of uncertain purpose (IT)
• The cathedral's silver altarpiece of Patriarch Pellegrino II and the Christian Museum
• The Messa dello Spadone, a sword-bearing Mass held on 6 January

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