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The most populated part of the region: its cities, the Collio, the moraine hills and the plain down to the lagoon.
Driving minutes, without traffic or border waits, to each municipality's town hall (for our homes, their own village when it was measured separately); for an area it is the median of its municipalities, excluding the one you start from. Measured with OSRM on 7 October 2026.
This is the largest of the four areas: 138 of the region's 215 municipalities, about 3,842 km² or almost half of Friuli Venezia Giulia, and 818,900 residents, more than two in every three people in the region. It includes the three former provincial capitals other than Trieste: Udine with 98,279 inhabitants, Pordenone with 52,314 and Gorizia with 33,620.
The name says what is inside. The regional landscape plan divides this territory into seven zones: the western foothills, the moraine amphitheatre, the eastern valleys and the Collio, the upper and lower Pordenone plain, and the upper and lower Friulian and Isonzo plain. When our catalogue grows, the area will split into Hills (47 municipalities) and Plain (91), using a rule that is already written.
From Udine, driving without traffic, the median is 35 minutes and the farthest municipality, Polcenigo, is 79 minutes away. From Trieste the median is 1 h 12 min, from Trieste Airport 48 minutes, from Venice airport 1 h 20 min. From Munich the nearest municipality is Osoppo, at about 4 h 30 min.
Cormons, Capriva del Friuli, Dolegna del Collio, Mossa and San Floriano del Collio, together with Gorizia, form the heart of the Italian Collio; the Collio Goriziano DOC wine zone also takes in parts of Farra d'Isonzo and San Lorenzo Isontino. Gorizia is the municipality in this area closest to Ljubljana, about 78 minutes by car.
Part of the historic centre of Cividale del Friuli, the Lombard-era quarter, has been part of the UNESCO site ‘Longobards in Italy’ since 2011. Cividale is about 25 minutes from Udine; around it, Prepotto, Corno di Rosazzo, Torreano, Faedis, Attimis, Nimis and Tarcento trace the eastern hills as far as the River Torre.
North-west of Udine, the moraine amphitheatre zone takes in fifteen municipalities: San Daniele del Friuli, Fagagna, Majano, Buja, Ragogna, Osoppo, Tricesimo, Moruzzo, Pagnacco and others. San Daniele is about 35 minutes from Udine.
Aviano, Budoia, Polcenigo, Caneva and Maniago lie at the foot of the Pordenone mountains. Regional mountain law counts them, wholly or partly, as mountain municipalities, but ISTAT classifies them as hills, so they are listed here rather than under Mountains.
Ninety-one lowland municipalities, from the upper plain around Udine and Pordenone down to the lowlands that border the lagoon: Codroipo, Sacile, Cervignano del Friuli, Ronchi dei Legionari. Palmanova, the star-shaped fortress town built by Venice in 1593, has been part of the UNESCO site of Venetian defence works since 2017.
| From | median | nearest | farthest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trieste | 1 h 12 | Ronchi dei Legionari 36 min | Montereale Valcellina 1 h 53 |
| Udine | 35 min | Pasian di Prato 9 min | Polcenigo 1 h 19 |
| Trieste Airport | 48 min | Ronchi dei Legionari 6 min | Montereale Valcellina 1 h 29 |
| Venice Airport | 1 h 20 | Pravisdomini 46 min | San Pietro al Natisone 1 h 47 |
| Ljubljana | 1 h 59 | Gorizia 1 h 18 | Montereale Valcellina 2 h 41 |
| Klagenfurt | 2 h 06 | Osoppo 1 h 29 | Caneva 2 h 44 |
| Vienna | 5 h 32 | Osoppo 5 h 00 | Caneva 6 h 14 |
| Munich | 5 h 07 | Osoppo 4 h 30 | Caneva 5 h 45 |
| Salzburg | 3 h 48 | Osoppo 3 h 11 | Caneva 4 h 26 |
Driving minutes, without traffic or border waits, to each municipality's town hall (for our homes, their own village when it was measured separately); for an area it is the median of its municipalities, excluding the one you start from. Measured with OSRM on 7 October 2026.
This area is what remains once the other three are drawn: a municipality belongs here if ISTAT does not classify it as inland mountain, if the landscape plan does not place it in the Karst, and if it is neither coastal nor mostly within the lagoon zone. The borderline cases: Gorizia, which the plan splits between upper plain (59%) and Collio (41%); the Natisone valleys above Cividale, which ISTAT counts as mountain (except San Pietro al Natisone, hill) and which therefore go to Mountains; the Collio, which ISTAT classifies mostly as plain (San Floriano is hill) but the plan places among the hills; and Ronchi dei Legionari, the only municipality here whose centre is less than 5 km from the sea. Homes in coastal municipalities that stand more than 4 km from the shoreline are also listed here.
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Because we currently have only a few homes here, and two near-empty categories would not help anyone searching. The split is ready and counted: 47 hill municipalities and 91 on the plain.
Yes. Cormons, Capriva, Dolegna, Mossa and San Floriano are here, and in the future split they will go to Hills: the landscape plan assigns them to the eastern valleys and Collio zone, even though ISTAT classifies four of the five as plain (San Floriano is hill).
From Piazza della Libertà, driving without traffic, Gorizia is about 45 minutes away and Pordenone about 62.
Ronchi dei Legionari, where the airport is, is 6 minutes from the terminal. The median for the area is 48 minutes; the farthest municipality, Montereale Valcellina, is 1 h 29 min away.
We look at it, read the documents and the market it really sits in, and tell you what we think.
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