Attractions and Places To See around Cordenons - Top 20

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.

beautiful medieval center

beautiful nature road near Valvasone

Porcía Castle is one of the symbolic places in the history of Friuli. The complex consists of a central keep, a Renaissance wing and a Venetian-style building.

Porcía Castle is one of the symbolic places in the history of Friuli. The complex consists of a central keep, a Renaissance wing and a Venetian-style building. Built with a military function to protect the territory from barbarian invasions, from the 12th century the castle became the permanent residence of the noble family of Porcía and Brugnera, who governed these lands for eight centuries and held important political and military positions under the Serenissima Republic of Venice. The Castle of Porcía, still inhabited by the family, is at the center of an agricultural area of 840 hectares where fine vines and other products are grown with cutting-edge methods.

The family had their castle of origin in Prata di Pordenone. At the beginning of the 13th century, Gabriel and Frederick, sons of Guecello I de Prata, drew the boundaries of their possessions. The first line descended from Gabriel and over time took possession of the castles of Porcia and Brugnera. The second line descended from Frederick but came into conflict with Venice and eventually died out in the 16th century.

The Parco del Seminario is a green area of about thirty hectares that rises close to the city and is characterized by an irregular perimeter lapped by the waters of the Noncello. It is owned by the Diocese of Concordia and Pordenone and in 2004 it was granted on loan for use to the Municipality of Pordenone: a provision that has significantly increased the public natural heritage available to citizens. The characterizing element of the Seminary Park are the well-kept and mowed lawns during the summer season to obtain forage. These are therefore plant communities originated and maintained by man, established on deep, clayey, moderately humid and nutrient-rich soils, which were once widely present throughout the Friuli plain because they were used for the production of hay; they are currently in a phase of clear regression, due to a large number of contributing causes, such as abandonment, transformation into cultivated fields, or destruction as a result of urban, industrial and road infrastructure expansion. Recent restoration interventions for recreational purposes have resulted in the creation of paths, the arrangement of small bridges along the irrigation ditch that flanks the dirt road, the planting of trees near the walkways and the arrangement of some benches, thus making it comfortable and simple the visit to this important naturalistic park of the city. In addition to the meadow vegetation, along the Noncello and in the area of the Seminary buildings it is possible to observe plants typical of riparian but also forest environments, thanks to the path that runs alongside the watercourse. During the autumn, poplars, willows, plane trees and maples take on bright colors creating a striking chromatic contrast with the intense green of the meadows and the blue of the sky. The fauna of the Seminario Park is particularly rich in species both as a result of the important extension of the district and for the various biotopes that can be observed there. The main part of the park is represented by the large mowing meadows which allow the presence of the typical species of open environments with sparse trees and hedges such as for example the warbler, the small shrike and the bush. At the Noncello and in the garden of the building that houses the Bishop's Seminary, the many large trees allow the establishment of a fauna more linked to forest systems such as, for example, the great spotted woodpecker. In the stretches of water connected to the river, it is instead usual to encounter the gray heron, the little egret, the little bittern, the cormorant, the lesser marangone, the little grebe, the coot, the moorhen, the water rail and the Mallard. The large meadows allow this park to include among the mammals a species typically linked to the prairies, which represents the authentic emblem of this green area. It is the hare that can be observed by paying a little attention, as it generally tends to populate the areas of meadow furthest from the cycle-pedestrian road that runs along the Noncello.

A lot of flair in the old town