From under the Mount Musi, in the locality called “Le Sorgenti”, flows the clean water of the Torre, the stream that gives its name to the valleys, that is ideal for the sports trout-fishing. Lusevera, with its ancient villages, is the chief town of this catching natural background where free flight with paraglider, climbing gym, sports climbing together with wonderful walks through woods and long innumerable paths can be made. In Pian dei Ciclamini, in the Giulie foothill of the Alps’ nature park, there are routes, parks with recreational facilities andinfrastructures for the pic-nic; a little bit over, in winter you could cross-country ski and in summertime you could mountain-bike through the wonderful uncontaminated landscapes of Passo Tanamea. In Villanova delle Grotte, that has been famous for many years for its important speleological explorations, there are a lot of interesting cavities; one of these, the “Grotta Nuova”, can be visited and it is the most extended of this kind of caves in Italy thanks to its 7 km of equipped and well lit lanes.
Where to lodge
AI CICLAMINI
Loc. Pian dei Ciclamini
0432 787084
ALLE SORGENTI
Fraz. Musi
0432 787096
DA CATERINA
Fraz Pradielis 53/A
0432 787006
LA ZUCULE
Fraz Villanova delle Grotte, 57
0432 787090
LOCANDA AL TORRE
Fraz Verdonza 59
0432 787254
VILLA ADRIANA
Fraz. Vedronza
0432 787023
Where to eat
AL PANORAMA
Fraz. Villanova delle Grotte
0432 787025
ALLE SORGENTI
Fraz. Musi
0432 787096
DA CATERINA
Fraz Pradielis 53/A
0432 787006
LA ZUCULE
Fraz Villanova delle Grotte, 57
0432 787090
LOCANDA AL TORRE
Fraz Verdonza 59
0432 787254
NOVA COOP
Lusevera Capoluogo, 42
0432 787029
TERMINAL GROTTE
Fraz. Villanova delle Grotte
0432 787020
MUNICIPALITY OF NIMIS
Nimis, built in the Roman period together with its hamlets and villages, had a very strategic importance in the Friuli’s Longobard duchy and offers one of the most ancient places of worship of our region: the SS. Gervasio and Protasio’s parish church. It was built on the ruins of a pre-Christian temple near the Castrum Nemas in the VIIIth century and it became a church with nave and two aisles around 1300. Very interesting are the castle of Cergneu, the seventeenth-century Madonna delle Pianelle’s sanctuary and the fifteenth-century S. Giovanni Battista’s church, from which you could appreciate the wonderful valley called Ramandolo where the homonymous wine, the first Friuli’s DOCG, is produced. It is a green amphitheatre made of ancient and laborious terraces that are put well in order on the sweet hills at the foot of the Bernadia, where the peculiar climate mix intense sun and gentle and persistent rains; this mount, surrounded by luxuriant beechwoods, elms and acacias which are used in order to produce Nimis’ honey, make you remember nature’s spiritual vitality in Celtic legends and magic rituals. Nimis is one of the 438 Italian wine-cities thanks to the great typicalness and quality of its wines, but also because its area gives its name to the Ramandolo, which is linked to this commune in a historic, traditional and cultural way.
Where to lodge
I COMELLI
lg. Armando Diaz, 8
0432 797158
AL TRIESTE
Piazza XXIX Settembre
0432 790552
TULLIO AMELIA
Via Ariis, 60
0432 790985
RAMANDOLO CLUB
Via del Borgo, 12
0432 878336
AI MOSAICI
Via Carducci, 1
333 1740170
SOT LA MONT
Via Taipana, 11 (Torlano)
0432 797457
FRIULI
Via del Ponte, 2 (Torlano)
0432 790203
CASA NONGRUELLA
Via Nongruella, 7 (Cergneu)
0432 797194
Where to eat
I COMELLI
Via Armando Diaz, 8
0432 797158
RAMANDOLO
Via Ramandolo, 48
0432 790009
AL TORRENTE
Via XII Dicembre, 44 (Cergneu)
0432 790236
DA MICOSSI
Via Verdi, 61 (Cergneu)
0432 790229
AL PARADISO
Via XXV Agosto (Torlano)
0432 790350
AL TRIESTE
Piazza XXIX Settembre
0432 790552
FRIULI
Via del Ponte, 2 (Torlano)
0432 790203
MUNICIPALITY OF TRACENTO
Tarcento, placed on the feet of the mounts Chiampeon, Stella and Bernadia, is a pearl set in the Torre’s clean waters and the hills populated with historic villages, rich in vineyards and woods, where people still preserve genuine and recognizable gestures, values, languages and traditions. The sweet environment together with its comforting harmony are made precious by past traces: the castellaccio of Coia and the Villafredda village remind of the medieval period; the fourteenth-century S. Eufemia’s church in Segnacco offers a suggestive spiritual beauty and overlooks the hills and the mountains; in Aprato the Our Lady of Lily’s church showes the early sixteenth-century golden wooden altar by Agostini; in Collalto there is Villa Valentinis, in the town center you could appreciate the elegant Villa De Rubeis and Villa Pontoni, the wonderful Frangipane Palace with their parks and gardens and Villa Moretti that has been recently restored. Our guests can go up the Zimor valley and reach the Stella, individualized by its church tower, that is a wonderful green balcony that overlooks Friuli. Moreover you could reach Useunt and its Our Lady of Peace’s church if you follow the paths through the Torre lined with chestnuts or the hospitable pathways full of bushes until the mount Bernadia where you could reach Ramandolo, a little jewel among vineyards that produce the precious DOCG wine called like the valley.
MUNICIPALITY OF TAIPANA
The first historical data of “ville slave” refered to the commune’s present hamlets go back to 1300; it is also the period when San Mattia’s church in Taipana was destroyed, so today you can appreciate its ruins, and the Holy Trinity’s church in Monteaperta was built. The area, with its ancient villages, crosses the Gran Monte mountain chain, the Rio Nero, the Natisone and it is the Eastern border between Italy and Slovenia, more exactly between Italy and Bergogna and Caporetto: a natural link between different people and cultures that have lived together for centuries. There are countless reasons that will push you to take a wonderful walk through this uncontaminated and generous area rich in rare flora and fauna and clean watercourses. Here have their source the Cornappo and, where the Rio Bianco and the Rio Nero flow into each other, the Natisone; moreover there are a lot of waterfalls such as the Cuclja of Rio Namlen whose water falls for 40 metres in Platischis. On the Gran Monte we offer an equipped bivouac in a former militar refuge dated back to the first world war; on the tableland of Campo di Bonis we breed beautiful horses; in Monteaperta goats and sheep pasture and we produce high-qualities fresh and ripe cheeses together with our typical and renowned rolled lard.
