The autonomous Italian region
FRIULI-VENEZIA GIULIA
Referred to simply as Friuli, Friuli Venezia Giulia receives its name
from several provinces and the dominancy of the Austrian and Slovenian
influences have donate to this region a unique history. The region is half mountainous and half plain and it stretches from a morainic amphitheater up to the Tagliamento river and the beautiful Adriatic coastline with its lagoons.
The Alpine arch is divided between the Carnic Pre-Alps and the Carnic and Julian Alps. The Carso area is dominated by interesting geological formations called “Doline” and an endless number of grottoes.
Throughout centuries a well defined and time-honoured relationship has been built between the Friulani (people for Friuli) and their mountains. A high sense of respect where mountains mean greatness and peace. A place where body and soul can escape from the city frenetic life and can find serenity.
CITIES
Friuli-Venezia Giulia is an autonomous region and its capital is Trieste, ruled by a special statute. The other important cities are Udine, Gorizia and Pordenone. All these cities offer a great variety of rustic, historical cultural and human sceneries thanks to the different dominations followed during the centuries.
Udine is the historical capital of the sole Friuli that is considered to be the 90% of the whole region. In fact Venezia Giulia, whose borders are not clears, was conquered by Italy during the II World War.
ART AND CULTURE
The Friuli Venezia Giulia region offers an outstanding variety of rustic, historical and cultural sceneries produced by significant social, political, and cultural implication after the separation of Friuli Venezia Giulia into two distinct regions.
The Friuli part
maintain a strong and predominant agricultural identity while the rest
of the region changed significantly during the last centuries. For
example Trieste became the most important Austrian port and the city
became an important nerve center for the commercial trade, generated by
the expansionist policy of the Hapsburgs. The arbor attracted a stream
of immigrates from the Mediterranean area and Austrian Empire and this
mixture of races and cultures changed radically the attitudes and
character of the people in Friuli Venezia Giulia.
Trieste art and culture show an established tradition in music in general and theatre production, confirmed every year by the extraordinary number of tickets sold in proportion to the inhabitants. Many public and private institutions organize concerts and all sorts of performances in the city's theatres, museums, squares and streets. The Fondazione Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi is Trieste production center.
The theatre includes a symphony orchestra, choral groups, corps de ballet and chamber music groups, and it offers a great variety of ballets and chamber music concerts, operas and light operas. From mid-June to mid-August the Fondazione Teatro Lirico holds the International Festival of Light Opera and the works staged are Italian, French, Viennese and Spanish. The symphonic seasons fall in May, September and October.. Another important musical institution in Trieste is La Società dei Concerti, a private non-profit-making body that since over 70 years organizes chamber music recitals during the evenings of November to April at the Politeama Rossetti.