Cividale del Friuli 
Paesone in provincia di Udine,
Cividale del Friuli vanta origini molto remote, for it is the presence of Palaeolithic and Neolithic populations then Celtic. In the middle of the first century BC Julius Caesar founded a town hall with the name of
Iulii Forum (the Forum of Julius ") which later became known throughout the region: Friuli. Some sections of Roman walls are visible under the later-era Venice. The town grew in importance in the Middle Ages and became a bishopric of the main region, due to destruction of Aquileia and then abandoned by the Hun. It was then an important city and capital of its Lombard Duchy of Friuli. Even under the Franks did not fail to fame in the 850 and was the birthplace of Berengar I, first king of Italy and then Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. In the ninth century was called Civitas
Austriae , hence the current name. From the twelfth century was a free commune and then by the fifteenth century came under the dominion of Venice. Among his examples are interesting monuments: The underground Celtic series of artificial caves probably used for worship by the Celts and then by the Romans as prisons, the Lombard Temple of the eighth century of the most interesting and best preserved of the time, the Cathedral of the fifteenth / sixteenth century, the contemporary city hall, the Devil's Bridge on Natisone the fifteenth century (so called because: it narrates the legend that the Devil. would build the bridge in a single night, but in exchange would have required the soul the first person who had passed over the bridge. So in one night the Devil erected the bridge the next day but the people did cross the bridge a cat. The Devil so he had to settle for the soul of the animal, leaving forever in peace Cividale). Under this order: the town hall with a statue of Caesar, the Cathedral, the temple Lombard. Top Cividale with the Devil's Bridge.
Paesone in provincia di Udine, Cividale del Friuli vanta origini molto remote, for it is the presence of Palaeolithic and Neolithic populations then Celtic. In the middle of the first century BC Julius Caesar founded a town hall with the name of Iulii Forum (the Forum of Julius ") which later became known throughout the region: Friuli. Some sections of Roman walls are visible under the later-era Venice. The town grew in importance in the Middle Ages and became a bishopric of the main region, due to destruction of Aquileia and then abandoned by the Hun. It was then an important city and capital of its Lombard Duchy of Friuli. Even under the Franks did not fail to fame in the 850 and was the birthplace of Berengar I, first king of Italy and then Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. In the ninth century was called Civitas Austriae , hence the current name. From the twelfth century was a free commune and then by the fifteenth century came under the dominion of Venice. Among his examples are interesting monuments: The underground Celtic series of artificial caves probably used for worship by the Celts and then by the Romans as prisons, the Lombard Temple of the eighth century of the most interesting and best preserved of the time, the Cathedral of the fifteenth / sixteenth century, the contemporary city hall, the Devil's Bridge on Natisone the fifteenth century (so called because: it narrates the legend that the Devil. would build the bridge in a single night, but in exchange would have required the soul the first person who had passed over the bridge. So in one night the Devil erected the bridge the next day but the people did cross the bridge a cat. The Devil so he had to settle for the soul of the animal, leaving forever in peace Cividale). Under this order: the town hall with a statue of Caesar, the Cathedral, the temple Lombard. Top Cividale with the Devil's Bridge. 
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