Provinces of Friuli-Venezia Giulia - Province of Gorizia, Province of Pordenone, Province of Trieste, Province of Udine, Carnia, Grotta Gigante (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Province of Gorizia, Province of Pordenone, Province of Trieste, Province of Udine, Carnia, Grotta Gigante, Val Rosandra, Slizza, Torre, Natisone, Piazza Unit D'italia, Bassa Friulana, Aria Di Festa. Excerpt: Carnia (Cjargne in standard Friulian, Cjargna/Cjargno in local variants of Friulian, Ciargna in Veneto, Karnien in German) is a historical-geographic region of Friuli, whose municipalities all belong to the province of Udine, which is part of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia Region. Collina, Forni Avoltri, CarniaIt covers the western and central part of the Carnic Alps mountain range in the Province of Udine, therefore it borders Veneto and Austria (Carinthia), but not Slovenia. The main town is Tolmezzo. Italian is the official language. Nevertheless Friulian, a Rhaeto-Romance language, is widely spoken. The German Austro-Bavarian dialect is spoken in the linguistic enclaves of Sauris, Paluzza-Timau and Sappada. It is located in the Carnic Alps; it is bounded to the north by Austria, to the south the province of Pordenone, to the west Veneto, and to the east Canal del Ferro-Valcanale (Ferro-Valcanale outfall), which also are part of the province of Udine. Carnia is formed of seven valleys, each of them is run through by a stream from which the valleys take their name (except for Valcalda). Each of these valleys is usually referred to as a canale (in Italian) / cjan l (in Friulian), i.e. an outfall, to emphasize its long and narrow shape: Each of these valleys and their homonymous streams meet in a common valley floor where the main centre of Carnia is located: Tolmezzo The following are the 28 municipalities of Carnia (next to the Italian name, the Friulian one is quoted): It is actually dutiful to add to the ones above the municipality of... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=16764368