I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo.

Amateur Traveler episode 723. Today the amateur traveler talks about Julius

Caesar, Attila the Hun, World War I, the Lombards, Prashuto and the Dolomites, as we go to the Italian province of Friuli Venetia Julia.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Let's talk about Friuli Venetia Julia. I'd like to welcome to the show Audrey and Manlio de Monte from

travels withaudry.com and they've come to talk to us about a region of Italy you may or

may not have heard of Fri Freoli Venetia Julia.

Audrey and Manlia, welcome to the show.

Well, thank you, Chris, and thank you for inviting us to be on your podcast today.

Thank you, Grace.

Thank you for having us.

Well, and we've picked a region of Italy that I couldn't have told you the name of.

I know where it is on the map.

Where are we talking about, first of all, if we put this on a map?

Well, if we were to put it on the map,

we're looking at the most northerly and easternly region of Italy. It sits right in the corner. Literally, the border in the north would be Austria. The border on the right would be Slovenia. then we have the Adriatic Sea.

So we're, and the border is also the region of Veneto.

So you're about a hundred and somewhat kilometers from Venice.

If you were to be in Venice and wanted to travel to

if you live in Ese Julia, you would do it along the highway.

That would be approximately about 100 kilometers.

And the major city there, as we'll get into, is Trieste. So that is...

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