Udine Gate – Palmanova loop from Palmanova

Italy

Friuli Venezia Giulia

Udine

Palmanova

Udine Gate – Palmanova loop from Palmanova

Hard

riders

Udine Gate – Palmanova loop from Palmanova

07:05

130km

750m

Gravel riding

Hard gravel ride. Very good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: September 26, 2026

Tips

Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted

After 112 km for 158 m

Waypoints

Start point

Train Station

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724 m

Udine Gate, Palmanova

Highlight • Monument

Coming from Udine you use this gate.

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791 m

Udine Gate

Highlight • Historical Site

One of the three entrances to the city. Traffic lights regulate traffic for cars, pedestrians and cyclists.

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1.50 km

Built in 1593 by the Republic of Venice, Palmanova is a fortress-city preserved in extraordinary condition. A Unesco World Heritage Site since 2017, Palmanova is a splendid model of an ideal Renaissance city and an example of military architecture. Its star shape is unmistakable and its Piazza Grande is not to be missed, a vast parade ground located exactly in the center of the fortress.

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16.9 km

Bosco di Medea

Forest

29.4 km

Beach

38.4 km

Bosco di San Michele

Forest

43.8 km

Quota 87

Peak

57.2 km

Monfalcone Fortress

Highlight • Castle

At the end of the 16th century the fortress lost its defensive function (the fortress of Palmanova had been built) and became a lookout point on the eastern borders of the Republic. This did not prevent the sacking of the city and the fortress itself by the Usocchi in 1615. The Venetian stable garrison stayed there until 1797, the year of the fall of the Venetian Republic by Napoleon. Abandoned for a very long time, it suffered the offenses of the First World War; in the years between 1950 and 1955 it was restored by the Superintendency of Monuments and since 1968 it has been entrusted to the care of the Monfalconese Speleological Group "Amici del Fante" which, two years later, inaugurated a paleontological museum, later transferred to the center of the city and replaced by the current speleological museum.

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73.4 km

Fiume Isonzo

Lake

82.7 km

Grado Coastal Cycle Path

Highlight (Segment) • Cycleway

Section of cycle path absolutely to be avoided. Degradation, neglect and danger at the highest levels (brambles up to more than half of the roadway, tall grass, collapsed sections of palisade ...) ... Congratulations to the body responsible for maintenance and also to the tourism promotion body ... hard to do worse ...

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88.6 km

Riserva naturale regionale della Valle Cavanata

Nature Reserve

91.9 km

Lagoon Cycle Path

Highlight • Cycleway

Here you always drive directly along the water, you just have to take the well-developed cycle path out of Grado, but it's worth it 💯

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97.2 km

Spiaggia Al Bosco

Beach

101 km

Lagoon Cycle Path between Aquileia and Grado

Highlight (Segment) • Cycleway

Beautiful and also the final section of the Alpe-Adria cycle path. The last few kilometers of the tour run right through the Grado lagoon. Here the cyclist can finally breathe the sea air. The Grado lagoon is very salty compared to other lagoons. The fauna and flora in the lagoon are very lush. Over 150 different species of birds live in the lagoon alone. Many migratory birds rest in the lagoon in spring and autumn. The variety of different species of mussels and fish is also large. For example, the Capa Tonda and the Venus clam live here, as well as various types of shrimp, sole and perch.

One of the largest of the several hundred islands in the lagoon is called Barbana. On Barbana there is a pilgrimage church with the statue of the Madonna and Child, to which the fishermen of Grado hold a pilgrimage every year on the first Sunday in July, the so-called Perdon de Barbana. There are restaurants on several islands in the lagoon. So if you want to rest in an extraordinary ambience, you have come to the right place.

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111 km

Basilica of Saint Mary of the Assumption and Aquileia Archaeological Area

Highlight • Religious Site

Aquileia was a big city of the Roman Empire. The remains of the Roman city can be visited in the open air and in two museums. In the medieval cathedral is the most important early Christian floor mosaic of Italy from the beginning of the 4th century. The lively city and developed, among other things, because of their art treasures.
Worth seeing are the Roman inland port, the Forum, the Via Sacra, from the patriarchal time the basilica with the important floor mosaics, the National Archaeological Museum and the Early Christian Museum, Roman roads, the aqueduct and remnants of other infrastructure.

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112 km

Foro:lato orientale

Archaeological Site

113 km

Domus delle bestie ferite

Archaeological Site

119 km

Ausa

Lake

130 km

End point

Train Station

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

47.4 km

38.1 km

28.1 km

9.65 km

4.12 km

3.00 km

< 100 m

Surfaces

65.1 km

31.7 km

17.5 km

14.6 km

1.03 km

515 m

Elevation

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Highest point (230 m)

Lowest point (0 m)

Weather

Monday 9 November

13°C

8°C

94 %

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Comments

April 28, 2025,Verso il Carso e poi...il mare

I think this was the last race (we work in the summer).
I did the descent from ARA PACIIS in Medea with the bike in hand on a steep path forbidden to bikes.

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