Top 12 Natural Monuments around Savogna D'Isonzo / Sovodnje Ob Soči

The Sabotin connects two countries and impresses with wide views of the Adriatic Sea and the Alps. Once the scene of turbulent history, the mountain today delights with its extraordinary biodiversity.

A historic peak (World War I) accessible from two sides via paved and gravel roads and forest trails. Presumably a "must-see" for historians. On Monte Sabatino is a cross-border open-air museum of Italy and Slovenia. The starting point is a former barracks, which now serves as an information center and restaurant. Due to its strategic position, the mountain was one of the key battlegrounds during the Battles of the Isonzo in World War I. The museum offers a tour of the second Austro-Hungarian defensive line, which was breached by the Italian Second Army on August 6, 1916, during the Sixth Battle of the Isonzo. Visitors can also see bunkers, fortifications, trenches, a complex tunnel system, caves, and relics of wartime equipment. Source: https://www.turismofvg.it/de/grandeguerra-gorz-isontinischer-karst-und-collio/parco-della-pace-del-monte-sabotino-park-des-friedens?LangSetCMS=de

In the area of the Risorgive del Timavo, where the Timavo river emerges from the vegetation, the medieval church of San Giovanni in Tuba stands suggestively with its late Gothic style.

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We are in one of the most particular and mystical places in the lower Friuli area. Here the course of the Timavo river reappears after having sunk near Škocjan in Slovenia for a 39km long underground route. The area of the springs, located in the municipality of Duino-Aurisina, has been an important place of worship since ancient times. The presence of a river that flowed from the earth had intrigued and frightened primitive populations. Diomedes, Hercules, Saturn, the Spes Augusta, Liber Augustus and the god Temavus were venerated. Virgil was so impressed by it that he mentioned it three times: Eclogue VIII, 6, Georgics, book III, 475 and Aeneid, book I, 244. The Via Flavia passed through here and in the area of the mouth of the Timavo the amber road reached the Adriatic Sea, along which the precious fossil resin was imported from the Baltic since pre-Roman times. In the 4th century, with the advent of Christianity, the first chapel was built, which, with subsequent modifications, became the basilica of San Giovanni in Tuba

A fairly well-kept panoramic area, although with a series of works in progress

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www.viaggiatorelento.com Dating back to 1483, the place of worship is a rare example in the region of the Carinthian-style ogival Gothic style. It was built at the behest of the lords of Walsee and partly rebuilt after the damage of the Second World War. It stands on the site of an early Christian basilica, of which a wall and a mosaic, dating back to the 5th century, are preserved in the presbytery, which was built on an ancient Roman temple. From 568 the territory was occupied by the Lombards. In 615, various relics and precious furnishings from the basilica of Aquileia were buried in the church to save them from the barbarian attack by the Avars on the Friuli area, remaining buried until their discovery in 1085. Around 950, the monastery of San Giovanni al Timavo or di Tuba also arose. The monastery and the church were rebuilt by Benedictine monks around the mid-10th century in conjunction with the chapter of the cathedral of San Giusto in Trieste, which had rights over the church. In the 11th century, the fiefdom of Duino depended on the Patriarchate of Aquileia and Patriarch Enrico united the monastery of San Giovanni with the abbey of San Martino della Beligna in Aquileia; Patriarch Ulrico also confirmed this union. In 1085, during restoration work, the ancient buried treasure was discovered and taken back to Aquileia; the discovery increased the fame of the monastery and in particular the festival for the feast day of its titular saint (June 24th), began to attract a multitude of people from all over the Karst region, even from Trieste. Patriarch Ulrico in 1112 had the basilica rebuilt and enlarged, and in 1120 it became an abbey, thus endowing it with extensive possessions: ten manses in Duino, the parish church of Marciliana (Monfalcone), and ten manses in the locality of Gradisca. Source wikipedia