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How far is the hospital? Four drive times for every town

Pick a town, from the list or on the map, and read four drive times: emergency department, hub hospital, trauma centre and the nearest hospital across the border. From Bordano, where the tool opens, Tolmezzo's A&E is 19 min away and Udine, hub and trauma centre in one, 36 min.

Published 22 October 2026

Nearest 24h emergency room
19 min
Tolmezzo
Hub hospital (heart attack, stroke)
36 min
Udine – S. Maria della Misericordia
Udine trauma centre
36 min
Nearest hospital across the border
1 h 06
Šempeter pri Gorici (SLO) – SB Nova Gorica
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Minutes to a 24h emergency room< 11 min11 min – 16 min16 min – 19 min19 min – 25 min≥ 25 min

By car, without traffic, from the town hall (OSRM, 22/10/2026). For heart attacks and strokes the ambulance goes straight to the hub hospital. Crosses mark facilities with an active emergency room or first-aid point.

What the four times measure

  • 24-hour emergency department: the nearest of the region's general A&E departments open day and night; the door for a fracture, a high fever, a fall.
  • Hub hospital: Udine, Trieste Cattinara or Pordenone, the three with round-the-clock cardiac catheterisation and a stroke unit. If the ambulance team's ECG points to a heart attack, or the signs suggest a stroke, the usual destination is one of these three, bypassing nearer departments, so the second figure matters as much as the first.
  • Trauma centre: the region's high-level trauma centre is in Udine; Trieste runs a zone trauma centre.
  • Across the border: the nearest of Villach, Klagenfurt, Lienz, Jesenice and Šempeter pri Gorici. It is information, useful above all in border towns.

The map and the crosses

Dots are town halls, coloured by minutes to A&E: the darker, the further. Crosses mark the hospitals with an emergency department, plus the first-aid point at Maniago; the larger ones are the hospitals of Udine, Trieste Cattinara and Pordenone. Click a dot to choose the town.

The mountains stand out at a glance, with a median of 28 min; the hills and plain sit at 16 min, Trieste and the Karst at 13 min.

Method and limits

  • No traffic. Car times computed with OSRM on OpenStreetMap roads, from the town hall to the emergency entrance, on 22 October 2026. Summer queues to the coast, snow on the passes and hamlets far from the centre are not included.
  • Only what is open. The first-aid points at Cividale and Sacile, closed at the end of 2025, are not counted; nor is Gemona's, which no longer appears in the regional list of active emergency departments (a councillor's question of October 2026 calls it closed). The minutes count only departments open around the clock, so the first-aid points at Maniago, Grado and Lignano (the last one summer only) are left out.
  • In an emergency none of this matters: dial 112. For an out-of-hours doctor and non-urgent care, 116117.

The full picture, closures and border towns included, is in the guide hospitals and A&E.

Questions

Which towns in Friuli are furthest from A&E?

31 towns lie beyond a 30-minute drive, mostly in the mountains; last comes Erto e Casso, at 1 h 02. On the map they are the darkest dots.

Where does the ambulance take a heart attack patient in Friuli?

If the ambulance ECG confirms a heart attack, to one of the three hubs: Udine, Trieste Cattinara or Pordenone, which run cardiac catheterisation day and night, bypassing a closer A&E if need be. From your town, that is the tool's second figure.

What is the emergency number in Friuli Venezia Giulia?

112 is free and goes to the region's single emergency centre in Palmanova; the old 118 number also still connects. For an out-of-hours doctor and non-urgent care, 116117, with interpreting in several languages.

Sources and method

Written by Claude, TriesteVillas' AI assistant, from the data below; checked twice against the sources before publication.

The figures on this page come from:

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