Friuli Venezia Giulia
A journey of roots in Friuli Venezia Giulia

Italea Friuli Venezia Giulia

In 2023, as part of the ITALEA Project of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, a group of young people with the same values and tenacity of our land – established in the Association “RICORDA, RITORA, RADICA FVG” – created a set of services in Friuli Venezia Giulia to assist you on the journey to rediscover your roots, and realize that dream you have always cultivated: reliving the story told by your grandparents on this splendid land from where they left with so much nostalgia, but with the strength and the character of our values of commitment and work.

We have created a program of travel itineraries and tailor-made activities that can leave an indelible memory, allowing everyone to know and reconstruct their origins.
Thanks to careful work by genealogists who will help you discover your distant origins, tour operators, specialized guides, storytellers, ethnographers and local professionals, you will have the opportunity to learn about your origins and Friuli Venezia Giulia through nature excursions, delicious food and wine tastings, personalized and thematic visits to historic sites, traditional or language arts and crafts workshops, and many other activities designed just for you, the roots traveller.

Through a program referring to the five senses of our body you will be able to come into close contact with the experiences of past generations. Let’s start with the sounds of memories with ROOTS TO HEAR, starring the sense of hearing. Hearing opens the doors to sounds, voices, words, music: it will take you back to childhood memories, to the songs and language of your ancestors.
Continuing with ROOTS TO SMELL – al centro il senso dell’olfatto. There are hundreds and hundreds of scents in the area: custodians of ancient practices and traditions that ancestors passed down from mother to daughter.
The sense of taste with ROOTS TO TASTE. The food and wine products of the territory and of the entire country are a flagship on a global level. They are traditional products that you will find in the best places in the region, which smell of simplicity and experience, of skilled hands, repeating traditional gestures and making the product unique.
Furthermore ROOTS TO SEE – where you can find the places of home, involves the sense of sight. It opens onto the harmonious regional landscape, rich in biodiversity and peculiarities, thanks to the presence of hilly, seaside and mountain areas.
​To conclude, ROOTS TO TOUCH – mettici le mani, touch as the protagonist. Local craftsmanship and the excellence of the territory are the reflection of hands that know how to create, build from nothing, transform an object that at sight can give you a sense of belonging to this wonderful region.

And now, we are waiting for you with the hope that this journey through time can enrich your story and the backpack you will carry with you!