Living in Codroipo: a railway town between Udine and the Tagliamento

Called Codroip in Friulian, the town serves the farmland west of Udine with shops, schools and trains. Population 15,802, up 9% since 2001; average age 48.0 (regional median: 49.7). Udine is 32 min by car, Pordenone 34 min.

• Suits: commuters to Udine or Pordenone, anyone who prefers the train to the wheel, families with teenagers (5 secondary-school sites and streams).
• Suits less: those who want sand or snow close by. Lignano Pineta, the nearest beach, takes 46 min; the Piancavallo lifts 1 h 16 min.

The station sits on the Udine–Venice line. On Friday 23 October 2026 its board showed 64 departures, running without a change to Udine, Trieste, Pordenone, Sacile and Venezia Santa Lucia, plus the overnight Intercity to Rome.

By car, with clear roads: Trieste airport 52 min, Venice Marco Polo 1 h 15 min, the A4 at Latisana 23 min. For Villach, board the Mi.Co.Tra. at Udine. Sea and slopes both within the hour? Not here: across the region only 14 municipalities have both (journey times).

Codroipo has no emergency department of its own. The closest one open day and night is at the hospital in San Vito al Tagliamento, on the far bank and under a different health authority, ASFO of western Friuli: 18 min by car. Suspected heart attacks and strokes go by ambulance to Udine instead, with its cath lab and stroke unit: 34 min.

Overnight and on holidays, a duty doctor in Viale Duodo handles what is not an emergency (dial 116117); for emergencies, 112. Comparisons: hospitals and A&E.

OMI, the tax agency's housing observatory, quotes Codroipo's homes in two zones (first half of 2026):

• centre, between Viale Venezia, Via Pordenone, Via Latisana and the ring roads: flats from €1,050/m² to €1,350/m²;
• outlying villages such as Beano, Pozzo, Passariano, Rivolto and Zompicchia: flats from €850/m² to €1,250/m², detached houses from €780/m² to €1,100/m².

Codroipo's overall value, €1,125/m², tops the Bassa and is the only one in the area to have shifted in twelve months (+4.2%). Homes sold in 2025: 169 (-5.4% on 2024), the most in OMI's Medio Friuli district. At these values €200,000 converts to some 180 m², plus taxes and notary (buying a house in Italy).

• Flooding: ISPRA counts 2,898 buildings, 69.6% of those in the 2011 census, in areas a rare flood could reach, on average once in 100–200 years; no other municipality in Friuli Venezia Giulia has as many. In the table, only Rivignano Teor has a higher share. Find out the ground-floor level and whether water has ever got in (floods and landslides).
• Earthquakes: seismic zone 3, lowered from 2 in the regional review of 2010; INGV's catalogue records MCS intensity 6-7 here in 1976 (papers to request).
• Summer: 43 days a year hit thirty degrees; the regional median is 37. No hills block the low winter sun: 8 h 38 min of it at the solstice.
• Jets: Rivolto, one of Codroipo's villages, has the air base where Italy's Frecce Tricolori display team was formed in 1961 and is still stationed. House-hunting nearby? Go and listen on a weekday.

In the village of Passariano stands Villa Manin, summer residence and farming estate of the Manin family. Lodovico Manin, the last Doge of Venice, spent long spells here; on 17 October 1797, months after his abdication, the Treaty of Campo Formio was signed in the villa, handing Veneto, Friuli, Istria and Dalmatia to Austria. The Region bought the buildings and 18 hectares of grounds in 1969 and opened them to visitors in 1971; the regional heritage agency ERPAC now stages exhibitions and concerts there.

The water on the hazard maps is also scenery: Codroipo's Parco delle Risorgive covers more than 40 hectares, open to all, with the plant life of the springs that feed the Stella river.