The best walks and hikes around Zoppola

Very large public park, pay attention if you are on a bike due to the presence of many people with dogs or simply walking or running.

The Archpriest's Church of the Holy Cross and the Blessed Virgin of the Rosary Built in the final decades of the 19th century, the archpriest's church is located in the heart of the village, not far from Pasolini's maternal home. The building is particularly notable for its twin bell towers flanking the façade, both with four single-lancet windows and two clocks. The interior houses numerous works by 20th-century Friulian artists, including numerous frescoes.

The building structure was constructed in late Romanesque style starting in 1449, furnished over the course of the following century, and rebuilt in the Neo-Gothic style at the end of the 19th century, replacing numerous wooden elements with marble and adding a new façade. The church houses a perfectly functioning 16th-century organ, the only one still in existence in Italy from the famous Venetian Renaissance tradition.

Valvasone Castle is the heart of the village, which once hosted two popes and even Napoleon during his conquest of Friuli. It was built in the 13th century as a defensive structure and today resembles more of a palace. The castle can be visited on certain weekdays. It houses one of the smallest historic theaters in Italy, with only around 50 seats.

The municipality of Valvasone Arzene is listed among the most beautiful towns in Italy thanks to the excellent state of preservation of its historic center, which boasts several stately homes dating from the 14th to 17th centuries. The most important architectural feature is the castle, surrounded by a moat and the old city walls. Also worth seeing is an old mill, which still retains its 15th-century wheel.

Valvasone Castle is the central nucleus of the village of the same name, now listed among the "Most Beautiful Villages in Italy." Built in the 13th century on pre-existing late-ancient structures, the castle belonged to the ancient and noble Valvasone family.

Large green area, of late-Romantic imprint, designed according to the compositional canons of the "English garden" with an avenue of thick holm oaks, Atlas cedars and magnolias. The horse chestnuts in front of the main entrance are among the oldest specimens of this elegant garden. Since November 2010 it has housed the Museo Itinerario della Rosa Antica (MIRA) which winds around the pond and is enriched by a collection of ornamental grasses. Rest areas allow you to admire the flowers and the pond. The Galvani Park, 350 meters from the center, with activities dedicated to art, the large central lawn, also home to concerts, open-air cinema, folk events, the rose garden and the inclusive play area, is considered the green living room of the city.

The castle of Torre was built in the Middle Ages where the complex of the large Roman villa once stood. The oldest part of the fortification is represented by a square-based tower, characterized by mighty walls, probably built in the second half of the 13th century by the Patriarch of Aquileia, who initially entrusted it to the ancient House of the Lords of Prata. Long the object of contention between the nobles of Porcia, the Count of Gorizia and the Carraresi, in 1391 the Patriarch of Aquileia, Giovanni di Moravia, granted the castle of Torre to Giovannino di Ragogna. After the first half of the 15th century, with the Venetian conquest of Friuli, the castle was transformed into a noble residence and was involved in a vast program of architectural and artistic interventions including the fresco decoration with the Annunciation on the ground floor, attributed to Gianfrancesco da Tolmezzo (1450-1511). The staircase leading to the main floor and the loggia were probably built during the second half of the seventeenth century. Between the end of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth century, the fresco depicting the main protagonists of the defense of Vienna from the siege of the Turks in 1683 was created in the vault of the ground floor of the tower-keep, probably to commemorate the participation of a member of the Ragogna family in the clash. Various additions and structural modifications were made to the building during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. At the end of the nineteenth century, in the southern sector of the castle, the old loggia building was demolished and a new building was built, which was placed against the northern wall of the main tower. In 1926, the building was replaced with the one that still exists today. In 1970, the Count of Ragogna died, leaving the Castello di Torre as an inheritance to the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region; in the end, after various testamentary events, the building came to the Municipality of Pordenone. After a careful restoration that took place in the early 2000s, since 2006 it has been home to the Archaeological Museum of Western Friuli.